A History of Force Feeding

Abstract

This study began life in Manchester during 2009 where I fi rst began to write about suffragette hunger strikes and the complexities of prison medicine.I developed further aspects of the research while employed at University College Dublin between 2009 and 2013 where I became intrigued by Irish republican force-feedings.The remainder of this study was kindly supported by a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities undertaken at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, a natural home for a book on hunger strikes to be written.Due to the long gestation of the project, I have accumulated numerous debts.I am particularly grateful to Leanne McCormick for her support of this project and my other ideas during my time as a researcher at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland at Ulster University.She provided a warm, supportive working environment alongside Andrew Sneddon, Greta Jones, and Donald MacRaild.Further afi eld, I am grateful to David Nicholl for his enthusiasm for my project.The project has resulted in a number of conferences and public engagement initiatives.I am particularly grateful to Ciara Breathnach and Laura McAtackney for their help in encouraging me to fi nd ways to engage with public audiences.In particular, I would like to thank Dr Berry Beaumont whose campaigns against force-feeding in the 1970s form part of the book.

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