The 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...

Maze is a prison film about the Maze Prison escape of 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners in 1983. It was written and directed by Stephen...

HM Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as the Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to...

force-fed by prison authorities for 167 of them. In an interview with Suzanne Breen, Price described being force-fed: Four male prison officers tie you...

years in prison. Three years after his arrest, Hughes was involved in a fracas and received an additional five-year sentence for assaulting a prison officer...

list of historically infamous prison escapes, and of people who escaped multiple times: There have been many infamous escapes throughout history: In 1244...

hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of the Maze past 40 prison officers and 28 alarm systems. During the escape Kelly shot a prison officer...

1975 IRA truce agreed with the British. Kelly took part in the 1983 Maze Prison escape and became part of an IRA ASU in the Netherlands; he was recaptured...

charges and in total served 20 years in prison. He also played a key role in the Maze Prison escape, the biggest prison break in British penal history. The...

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Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape occurred on 31 October 1973 when three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escaped from Mountjoy Prison in...

to be moved to a prison in Northern Ireland. The hunger strike lasted for 208 days because the hunger strikers were force-fed by prison authorities to keep...

McFarlane went on to lead the Maze Prison escape, the mass break-out of 38 republican prisoners from the Maze in 1983 in which a prison officer died of a heart...

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recommending he spend at least 30 years in prison. On 25 September 1983, McElwain was involved in the Maze Prison escape, the largest break-out of prisoners...

Kieran Nugent began the blanket protest in the Maze Prison, when hundreds of prisoners refused to wear prison uniforms. In 1977 the IRA evolved a new strategy...

outstanding was the right not to do prison work. Following sabotage by the prisoners and the Maze Prison escape in 1983, the prison workshops were closed, effectively...

re-arrested in July 1973 and interned at the Maze prison. After taking part in an IRA-organised escape attempt, he was sentenced to a period of imprisonment...

In March 1981 Bobby Sands, an IRA member who was imprisoned at the Maze prison, Northern Ireland, went on hunger strike for the return of Special Category...

Amanda Foreman (4 December 2010). "Sinn Fein should never be able to escape Jean McConville's ghost". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30...

years. Feeney and other members of the group were incarcerated in Brixton Prison, and participated in a 205-day hunger strike with the goal of being transferred...

policy among republican prisoners led to more than 500 of them in the Maze prison initiating the "blanket" and "dirty" protests. Their protests culminated...

Troubles. His second feature film, Maze, 2017, tells the story of the 1983 Maze Prison escape by 38 IRA prisoners. "Maze director Stephen Burke on bringing...

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...

serving prison sentences in Portlaoise Prison for paramilitary activity, left the organisation. Some transferred to the INLA landing of the prison, but the...

HM Prison Parkhurst escape took place on 3 January 1995, when three Category A prisoners, Matthew Williams, Keith Rose and Andrew Rodger, escaped from...

Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy in a film based on the events of The Maze Prison Escape, titled H-Block with Jim Sheridan at the helm. Initially, filming...

republicans held there. On 15 April 1974, Bell escaped when he swapped places with a visitor and walked out of the prison. He was recaptured two weeks later at...

internee in Long Kesh prison, which later became known as the Maze. Maguire became a member of the IRA's "camp staff" in the Maze, one of the senior IRA...

Fleming was involved in the Maze Prison escape, the largest break-out of prisoners in Europe since World War II and in British prison history. Fleming, along...