Female prisons and borstals were intended to encourage respectability in women and girls. Rachel Bennett explores how one person challenged these efforts.
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Karl Crawley and how Ireland started talking about prisoners’ mental health (1974-1978)
Dr Oisín Wall discusses how a campaign for proper psychiatric treatment for one prisoner began a national conversation about prisoners’ mental health in 1970s Ireland.
Reflecting on Past Time, March 2018
Public Engagement Officer Flo Swann looks back on the first run of our project, Past Time, at HMP Hewell with Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation)
Suffragette Diary
Dr Sarah Richardson a guest blogger, writes about Suffragist Annie Cobden Sanderson who was imprisoned in Holloway in 1906.
Positive in Prison: HIV/AIDS in a Dublin Jail
Janet Weston reflects on making and launching Positive in Prison, an audio docu-drama based on her research.
Launch: Positive in Prison
An audio docu-drama exploring the experiences of those who lived through the HIV/AIDs crisis in the 1980’s in Mountjoy prison.
Brokentalkers commissioned to work with Mountjoy Prison and PACE
A new commission with multiple award winning Irish theatre company.
Reflections on Disorder Contained
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland reflect on their involvement in the production of Disorder Contained with Talking Birds theatre company and ask what historians can learn and gain from the process.
New Participatory Art Project
‘The Trial’ is the working title for a new visual art project due for public exhibition in April 2018.
Health Inside …
‘Health Inside: Thinking About Prisoners’ Right to Healthcare’ is a new public art project due for exhibition in June 2018, which will focus on health and welfare provision in Irish and English prisons.
Exploring the history of prisoner health 