HM Prison Maze

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary Setting Anne Devlin
Memory and politics again figure prominently. After living for some time in England, Helen Walsh returns to Belfast during the Republican hunger strike at the Maze Prison , which began on 27 October 1980...
Literary Setting Julia O'Faolain
The title story is drawn from contemporary Irish politics. A woman who has killed a policeman and is now in prison goes on hunger-strike to press her claim for political status.
The Maze Prison in...
Occupation Medbh McGuckian
MMG taught creative writing at The Maze in Belfast, the prison for inmates convicted of politically motivated (terrorist) offences and those with connections to paramilitary organisations.
Poetry Criticism. Gale Research, 1991.
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“Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Textual Features Catherine Byron
Once again she returns to her experience on the penitential pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory. She revisits her complaints about Heaney 's depiction of the feminine, but this time she focuses on Francis Hughes

Timeline

9 August 1971
From this date prisoners in Ireland convicted of politically motivated offences were held at HM Prison Maze (The Maze) near Belfast; the last ones were transferred to other establishments and the prison was...
9 August 1971
From this date prisoners in Ireland convicted of politically motivated offences were held at HM Prison Maze (The Maze) near Belfast; the last ones were transferred to other establishments and the prison was...
October 1974
Continued confrontation between prisoners and authorities at the Maze Prison , Belfast, culminated when the Provisional IRA and the Official IRA set fire to the prison.
27 October 1980
A hunger strike began in the notorious H-blocks of the Maze Prison , Belfast, among young men convicted of terrorist violence, who already spent four years wearing wraps, not clothes, in a Blanket and...
5 May 1981
Bobby Sands , a member of the Provisional IRA , died in the Maze Prison near Belfast, where for two months he had been leading his final hunger strike.
“1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison”. BBC On this day.
Summer 1981
In this bad season for Northern Ireland, the perceived intransigence of Margaret Thatcher 's British government helped the IRA to increase its support.
10 April 1998
The Good Friday Agreement, a peace agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and that of Northern Ireland itself, was signed, following complex and lengthy multiparty negotiations.