Armagh Women's Prison
The HM Prison Armagh (ger .: Armagh Women's Prison ) was a women's prison in the city of Armagh in Northern Ireland , which was closed 1986th
Republican women were also held prisoner in Armagh during the Northern Ireland conflict. These women had political status . From March 1978, 30 of them took part in the so-called Dirty Protest . In doing so, they did not leave their cells and smeared not only excrement but also their menstrual blood onto the cell walls. The women of this prison did not take part in the Blanket Protest because they had the right to wear their own clothing - in contrast to the male republicans who were imprisoned, who only temporarily enforced this right on a hunger strike by 40 members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1972 . When IRA members Brendan Hughes, Tommy McKearney , Raymond McCartney, Tom McFeeley, Sean McKenna, Leo Green and INLA member John Nixon started a hunger strike on October 27, 1980 to enforce five demands, the day after was the dirty protest completed. Three women in Armagh took part in this 1980 hunger strike. One of them was Mairéad Farrell , who was already involved in the Dirty Protest . She was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988 in Operation Flavius ; she was not involved in the 1981 Irish hunger strike .
On April 19, 1979, Agnes Wallace, a 40-year-old prison guard, was shot dead in an IRA attack, and three other guards were injured by gunshots and grenades outside the prison.
In 2009, Her Majesty's Prison Service announced that the prison, which closed in 1986, would become a luxury hotel. The prison buildings, erected from 1780 onwards, have been a listed building since April 1975 and have been classified as Grade B + .
Individual evidence
- ^ A Chronology of the Conflict - 1979 . In: Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN) . Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ↑ City gaol to become luxury hotel
- ↑ Entry in the database ( page can no longer be called up , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (Accessed on 29 December 2011).
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Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 47 " N , 6 ° 38 ′ 50" W.