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Updated / Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021 11:52 In the newly published third volume of academic and author Seán McConville s comprehensive history Irish Political Prisoners, 1960–2000, McConville offers in his words, a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict, and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum-security prisons . Below, the author introduces an extract from the book, recounting the notorious Maidstone breakout of 1972. I have tried to provide a complete account of imprisonment during the thirty and more years of The Troubles and have assumed that many readers will have only a sketchy knowledge of modern Irish history. The political, legal, organisational framework of those years have therefore been set out in as much detail as is practical. ....