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Maze prison

July 2024

  • The razor-topped walls and watchtowers of the former Maze prison.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    This week in audio: Escape from the Maze; State of Play: Summer Games; Today With Tonies – review

    An even-handed account of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history is essential listening

January 2018

  • Gerry Adams

    Gerry Adams appeals 1975 convictions for Maze escape attempts

    Lawyers say Sinn Féin leader was unlawfully interned without trial at time of planned jail breaks

February 2016

  • A mural on the Falls Road in Belfast depicting Bobby Sands.

    Family of Bobby Sands attack graphic novel about IRA hunger striker

    Relatives of IRA leader who died in Maze prison in 1981 say it is reprehensible they were not consulted over Arts Council-backed book

August 2013

  • Northern Ireland: history's hard lessons

  • The Maze prison

    Northern Ireland coalition divided over Maze prison peace centre

May 2013

  • Maze prison

    Ukip joins campaign against 'peace centre' on site of Maze prison

    Party claims site in Northern Ireland will be turned into shrine to IRA hunger strikers

April 2013

  • Maze prison

    Maze prison redevelopment expected to create 5,000 jobs

  • 1983 aerial view of the H blocks at the Maze prison near Belfast

    Maze prison redevelopment gets green light

May 2012

  • Maze prison 1979

    Belfast's immoral 'conflict tourism'

    Chris Jenkins
    Chris Jenkins: Buses drive into Belfast to allow tourists to gape at the massive walls and sites of bombings. This is simply exploitation

December 2011

  • A mural of Bobby Sands

    Thatcher cabinet 'wobbled' over IRA hunger strikers

    National Archives releases papers that lay bare fraught private discussions over government's stance on Maze prisoners

September 2010

  • Loyalist Volunteer Force leader, Billy Wright

    Billy Wright killing report finds no evidence of state involvement

    No collusion between republican paramilitaries and MI5 found in 1997 killing – but prison failures made it easy to carry out

July 2010

  • Maze prison

    Maze prison peace centre gets go-ahead

    New facility at site of former prison aims to pass on lessons of peace process to other global troublespots, despite discovery of 'Disappeared' body

March 2010

  • Donovan Wylie's Best Shot

    My best shot
    Photographer Donovan Wylie's best shot

    Donovan Wylie: This was the last piece of Belfast's Maze prison to be demolished. It was very liberating – like taking off armour

April 2009

  • Paisley Jr ordered to reveal source or face jail in Maze prison murder inquiry

    High court order to assist inquiry into death of Billy Wright poses threat to parliamentarians and journalists, say campaigners

October 2008

  • Republican filter on the Troubles

    Letters: Two lines stood out in Ronan Bennett's piece on the film Hunger

  • Maze prison

    Life and death in Long Kesh

    Held in the 70s in the notorious Northern Irish jail known as The Maze, The H Blocks or Long Kesh, Ronan Bennett recalls the gas attacks, the beatings, the smell - and the jokes - and applauds Steve McQueen's haunting new film about its best-known inmate, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands

  • The Maze

    Hunger: The real maze men speak

    Sean O'Hagan returns to the streets where he grew up during the Troubles, and speaks to prisoners who lived through the protests in the Maze Prison that culminated in the deaths of 10 men

August 2008

  • 300 IRA members to fight convictions and seek compensation

    Former inmates of the Maze consult lawyers and prisoners' groups on how to quash convictions

May 2008

  • Minister to bar national sports stadium at Maze

    Unionist parties and fans oppose building stadium on site of prison that held terrorists

March 2008

  • Politics blog
    Maze still divides in Northern Ireland

    Plans to turn the emblematic former prison into a sports stadium may be a casualty of the changing of the guard in the DUP

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