HM Prison Armagh, also known as Armagh Gaol, is a former prison in Armagh, Northern Ireland. The construction of the prison began in 1780 to a design...

The service's primary Prison Officer training facility, the Prison Service College, is based at Hydebank Wood. Also known as Armagh Gaol, this establishment...

downgraded to category B. HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs is an example of a Category B prison. They are the equivalent of a medium security prison in the United States...

54°30′50″N 6°11′10″W / 54.514°N 6.186°W / 54.514; -6.186 HM Prison Maghaberry is a high security prison near Lisburn, Northern Ireland, which opened in 1986...

HM Prison Belfast, also known as Crumlin Road Gaol, is a former prison situated on the Crumlin Road in north Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since 1996 it is...

design of Pentonville (HM Prison), is Victorian. For most of its working life it was a women's prison although not exclusively so. Armagh Gaol was the primary...

Maze Prison escape (known to Irish republicans as the Great Escape) took place on 25 September 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. HM Prison Maze...

the 1980s Blanket protest in the Maze prison (also known as "Long Kesh") and the HM Prison Armagh (women's prison) in Northern Ireland. McCaughey and other...

The South Armagh Sniper is the generic name given to the members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army's (IRA) South Armagh Brigade who conducted a...

The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. It was organised into two...

Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze Prison (also known as "Long Kesh") and a protest at Armagh Women's Prison in Northern Ireland. In March 1978 some...

to His Majesty's Prisons is an episcopal post in the Church of England relating to the church's chaplaincy to His Majesty's Prison Service. The bishop...

pistol and a hand grenade. McGinn was released from prison in 1987, and joined the IRA's South Armagh Brigade. Initially viewed as an outsider, within several...

Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. His farm straddles County Armagh and County Louth on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic...

of Armagh is the ecclesiastical head of the Church of Ireland, bearing the title Primate of All Ireland, the metropolitan of the Province of Armagh and...

in the political culture". The protest soon spread to the women's prison at Armagh, where not just faeces and urine, but menstrual blood, coated cell...

was granted extended temporary release. O'Hare was born in Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, into a family with a strong republican background. His...

Cross Society. Kathleen Blanche Kinahan, Member, Board of Visitors, HM Prison, Armagh. Dennis George King. For services to the conservation and restoration...

Thomas McMahon (born 1948) is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was one of the IRA's most...

the only female inmate at HM Prison Maghaberry near Lisburn from May 2011 until she was moved to the hospital wing of HM Prison Hydebank Wood in February...

Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture...

to fourteen years in prison for explosives offences, firearms offences, and belonging to an illegal organisation. At Armagh prison, Farrell was the official...

Women's Land Army. (Leamington Spa). Margaret Mills, Chief Officer, HM Prison, Armagh. John Morris, Head Foreman Riveter, Greenock Dockyard Company Ltd...

beaten by interrogators in the Omagh and Armagh police barracks and held in the H Blocks of Long Kesh (HM Prison Maze) until his trial in November 1977...

While in prison, he completed a PhD examining the representation of Irish republicans in Troubles fiction. Magee was released from prison in 1999 under...

Raois, 25 February 1957 – 21 May 1981) was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and...

(180 kg) IRA bomb found in a derelict building at Silverbridge, County Armagh was defused by the British Army. a blast bomb was thrown at a British Army...

recognise the Diplock court; he received a life sentence and was sent to HM Prison Maze. McMullan was the second person convicted after the withdrawal of...

McIlhone. British Army officer Robert Nairac, who disappeared from South Armagh, was a Mauritius-born Roman Catholic. The organisation said they could only...

South Armagh and joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the 1981 hunger strikes. In 1982 he was sentenced to five years in prison for...