A Red Hand of Ulster on a cell door. SHOCKING photos show the abandoned remains of Britain’s most notorious prisons where convicted IRA and Ulster Loyalist terrorists were held. From dilapidated cells and barbed wire fencing to medical facilities and the family visiting room the images showcase what is left of HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland which closed in 2000. The prison housed paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles that blighted Great Britain and Ireland until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and is perhaps most well-known as the place where ten Irish Republican prisoners starved t


A Red Hand of Ulster on a cell door. SHOCKING photos show the abandoned remains of Britain’s most notorious prisons where convicted IRA and Ulster Loyalist terrorists were held. From dilapidated cells and barbed wire fencing to medical facilities and the family visiting room the images showcase what is left of HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland which closed in 2000. The prison housed paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles that blighted Great Britain and Ireland until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and is perhaps most well-known as the place where ten Irish Republican prisoners starved themselves to death during a hunger strike in protests aimed to re-establish their political status.


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