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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Women's Prison joined the strike, including Mairéad Farrell, followed by a short-lived hunger strike by several dozen more prisoners in HM Prison Maze. In...
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  • 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...
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    The league was almost exclusively made up of republican prisoners in HM Prison Maze (known also as "Long Kesh") and their families; In total the membership...
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    building of the "H-blocks" in 1976 to become known as the Maze Prison. The most well-known prison during the Troubles, this establishment housed paramilitary...
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    Alvarez.[user-generated source?] In the 2017 film Maze, depicting the 1983 prison break at HM Prison Maze outside of Belfast, McCann played Oscar, one of...
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  • 1976, Sands was sentenced in 1977, arriving in HM Prison Maze late September, he refused to wear prison uniform. Both Sands and McDonnell went on to hunger...
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  • Liberation 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...
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