Research Catalog

Title

Then the walls came down : a prison journal / Danny Morrison.

Author

Morrison, Danny

Publication

Cork : Mercier, 1999.

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Details

Description

318 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"In the 1980s Danny Morrison was national publicity director for Sinn Fein. It was he who coined the phrase t̀he armalite and the ballot box' to describe the republican strategy of simultaneously waging armed struggle and engaging in electoral politics. But Morrison, in his own words a 'reluctant but enthusiastic' activist, had always wanted to be a writer. When, in 1990, he was imprisoned in Crumlin Road Jail, charged with conspiracy to murder, kidnapping and IRA membership, he began to reflect on his own life, critically appraise the balance of forces in the Northern conflict and consider a way out of the political impasse. He also began to develop his own ideas about writing and the creative process." "In a series of letters to his partner, to friends and to comrades - letters both open and smuggled - he describes the effect of imprisonment on himself and his fellow republicans. These letters are candid, sometimes deeply personal and often wryly humorous; they add up to a testimony to the variety of human experience under adverse conditions."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Morrison, Danny > Diaries
• Sinn Fein > Biography
• 1900-1999
• Prisoners > Ireland > Diaries

Genre/Form

Diaries

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1856352773

OCLC

• 42623061
• SCSB-12056197

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library