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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 the only remaining Victorian era former prison in Northern Ireland.
2009 reenactment of a Provisional IRA unit in Galbally, County Tyrone. Chronologies of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions detail activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
The prison and its inmates were involved in such events as the 1981 hunger strike. The prison was closed in 2000 and demolition began on 30 October 2006, but on 18 April 2013 it was announced by the Northern Ireland Executive that the remaining buildings would be redeveloped into a peace centre, [ 2 ] however these plans were later abandoned.
Economy Minister Conor Murphy was once held in the Crumlin Road Gaol accused of Provisional IRA membership.
The British government, while offering extensive prison reform, refused to acknowledge political status. [63] The women's strike lasted 19 days, finishing on 19 December. Twenty-six women remained on the dirty protest at Armagh [61] Token three-day fasts broke out sporadically in Belfast Prison. [64]
Laurence Marley (c. 1945 – 2 April 1987) was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member from Ardoyne, Belfast, Northern Ireland.He was one of the masterminds behind the 1983 mass escape of republican prisoners from the Maze Prison, where Marley was imprisoned at the time, although he did not participate in the break-out.
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This was believed to be revenge for the killing of Billy Wright in HM Maze prison earlier that day. [38] The LVF said: "This attack and future attacks lay squarely at the feet of republicans. For too long the Protestant people have watched their very faith, culture and identity being slowly eroded away".