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Text and Research: Fionnuala McKenna and Martin Melaugh
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The information on Internment in Northern Ireland, from 1971-1975, will be divided into a number of subsections. The headings of these subsections are listed below. The web pages associated with each of these sections are currently being completed.

This photograph of the huts at Long Kesh is from the book 'Internment'.

Selected reading list

Summary

Background information

Chronology of events

Main pages

Compton (1971) Report of the Enquiry into Allegations Against the Security Forces of Physical Brutality in Northern Ireland Arising out of Events on 9 August 1971.

Kennally and Preston, (1973) Belfast, August 1971: A Case to be Answered.

McGuffin (1973) Internment.

McGuffin (1974) The Guineapigs

Seamus O Tuathail, (1972) They Came in the Morning: Internment, Monday August 9, 1971: Torture and Brutality in the North [PDF File; 166KB]

n.a. / Hibernia. (1974). '71 Internment '74, Supplement to Hibernia, Hibernia: Fortnightly Review, Friday 9 August 1974, 8 pages, (Includes contributions from: Kevin Boyle; Michael McKeown; and Robert Fisk), [PDF; 3666KB]. Dublin: Hibernia Magazine. (LHL)

Details of source material

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