Bibliography
The following titles are a starting point for anyone researching Kilmainham Gaol, the history of imprisonment in Ireland or the revolutionary period. Many are available in the National Library of Ireland and in public libraries; a selection is also stocked by the Kilmainham Gaol Book and Gift Shop.
Kilmainham Gaol
- Cooke, Pat, A History of Kilmainham Gaol 1796–1924 (Dublin: Office of Public Works, 1995).
- Cooke, Pat, ‘Kilmainham Gaol: interpreting Irish nationalism and republicanism’, Open Museum Journal, vol. 2 (2000).
- O’Dwyer, Rory, The Bastille of Ireland: Kilmainham Gaol, from Ruin to Restoration (Dublin: The History Press Ireland, 2010).
- Sherry, Ruth, ‘The Story of the National Anthem’, History Ireland, vol. 4, no. 1 (1996).
Prisons and punishment in Ireland
- Carroll-Burke, Patrick, Colonial Discipline: The Making of the Irish Convict System (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000).
- Kilcommins, Shane, et al., Crime, Punishment and the Search for Order in Ireland (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2004).
- McConville, Seán, Irish Political Prisoners 1848–1922: Theatres of War (London: Routledge, 2003).
- Osborough, W. N., Borstal in Ireland: Custodial Provision for the Young Adult Offender 1906–1974 (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1975).
Transportation
- Costello, Con, Botany Bay: The Story of the Convicts Transported from Ireland to Australia 1791–1853 (Cork: Mercier Press, 1987).
- Reece, Bob, The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
- Rees, Siân, The Floating Brothel (London: Headline, 2001).
The revolutionary period, 1916–23
- Foy, Michael and Barton, Brian, The Easter Rising (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999).
- Hopkinson, Michael, Green against Green: The Irish Civil War (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1988).
- Matthews, Ann, Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900–1922 (Cork: Mercier Press, 2010).
- McCoole, Sinéad, No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900–1923 (Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2003).
- O’Malley, Ernie, On Another Man’s Wound (Dublin: Anvil Books, 1936).
- Townshend, Charles, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion (London: Allen Lane, 2005).