Book Review L. McKeown, Time Shadows: A Prison Memoir, reviewed by Jade Moran

Time Shadows is a remarkable memoir of imprisonment. It is a beautiful elegy to lost comrades and a searing indictment of British state violence against Irish Republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. The 13 chapters focus on the prison protest years of 1976 to 1981. These were Dr Laurence McKeown’s first five years in prison, and they capture Britain’s brutal attempt to criminalize Irish political prisoners during the blanket protest, the no-wash protest, and the battle ground of the 1981 Hunger Strikes.

http://dx.doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.13.1.0111