The scene between Sands and Moran comes more or less in the middle of the film, when Sands has announced his intention to go on hunger strike and die if necessary. A single man in a cell can be intimidated and made biddable. [15], Discussion is still ongoing as to the listed status of sections of the old prison. Former Prison Officer Dessie Waterworth describes the control room inside a H-Block at the Maze and Long Kesh. But having said that, it all depended on what cage you were in and it all depended on who your mates were, basically how you got your day in., [L] I was remanded here, it wasnt just all internees, ordinary prisoners were here too as well as you, worked the kitchens and all that and delivered the food out to the different cages. However, weddings did take place here, as well as graduations for prisoners who undertook Open University degrees in the prison. This chapter examines Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland as a place of dark heritage in order to contextualise the way the physical manifestations, structures, philosophy and understandings of the prison have mutated since its closure to an as yet undecided and increasingly contested cultural entity. But with the first of the gas communication had broken down completely. For the locations neither the districts nor the provinces were mentioned. Involving as it did the destruction of the Long Kesh camp and pitched battles between IRA prisoners and the British Army (described by some as the biggest military engagement of the war), the repercussions from the events of that October and the days following are still being felt 40 years later. Archive of Steve Jensen Design www.stevejensen.design, I must say it was a happy, busy place, people all seemed to be enjoying what they were doing, it wasnt like slave labour Educator. A monitoring group was set up on 14 January 2003 to debate the future of the 360-acre (1.5km2) site. The hangars were later used by prison staff: the hangar on the right was used for prison stores; the hangar on the left was empty until the 1990s, when a mock-up of half a H-Block was built inside for prison staff to conduct riot control manoeuvres. Located in front of the main entrance to an H-Block, it was accessible to vehicles. They refused to wear the prison uniform and began a 'blanket protest', which later escalated into the 'dirty protest', as prisoners were not allowed to . The Maze and Long Kesh overview map was supplied to PMA during filming in 2007. What audience do they serve? It was the largest high security prison in Europe and was both the tinderbox and the touchstone of political developments outside its walls. Simultaneously, the British government announced that the political status we enjoyed - tacit government recognition that what was happening in the north of Ireland was not some inexplicable outbreak of mass criminality but the result of a political crisis - was to be ended. McConnell: HM Maze Prison, also known as Long Kesh and the H-Blocks, held some of the most dangerous men in Europe during its 30 year operation. The compounds/ cages were segregated along political lines. Are they bad? One night a kind of collective and spontaneous silliness overtook our cage and a hundred grown men started playing tag and hide and seek. There was plenty of heartache and plenty of craic in that section of the jail Prisoner. Over the coming months and years hundreds of prisoners went on the blanket. At the start of the movie we see him rising for breakfast. Another nine hunger strikers (members of both the IRA and the INLA) died by the end of August before the hunger strike was called off in October. Following the end of the policy of internment in December 1975, the cages/ compounds continued to be used for prisoners. I do not know that I have ever seen a film as powerful, beautiful, haunting and individual as Hunger, Steve McQueen's movie about the dirty protest and the hunger strike. I wanted to get through it and into the other, gas-free, pitch. POWS begin to set the fire inside the cages of Long Kesh. Here the critical difference is that the emphasis is on the state as the perpetrator of violence and on republicans as the victims, something the 100,000 people who lined Sands' funeral route would have had no trouble in recognising. so everyone had a job that was spent at a particular time in the morning occupying themselves. My friend and I didn't know if the story was true, and there may even be some who in their cups might object to the idea of a hunger striker crying because death is imminent and real. I grew up just the other side of the Irish Sea, but Belfast may as well have been the other side of the world to me. And he fired the dinner at him. In Hunger Stuart Graham plays the fictional guard Ray Lohan, angst-ridden, taut and violent. This map was used by the prison staff for an overview of the entire site. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. But with the first of the gas communication had broken down completely. Long Kesh was also used for sentenced republican and loyalist prisoners from 1972. But the gate opened the other way. On 15 October, an incident in Cage 13 saw a row between its occupants and prison guards over the prison food. Once through, respite was brief. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Portlaoise Prison Portlaoise County Laois H Blocks Long Kesh Lisburn County Antrim BT27 5RP . Originally, each wing had its own yard, with an air lock between adjacent yards. Used for exercise and outdoor recreation by the prisoners. Donovan Wylie dodged this suspicion by documenting over a five-year period the slow demolition of The Maze. The hospital and part of the H-Blocks are currently listed buildings, and would remain as part of the proposed site redevelopment as a "conflict transformation centre" with support from republicans such as Martin McGuinness and opposition from unionists, who consider that this risks creating "a shrine to the IRA".[16]. But the actor's real achievement is in his reproduction of Sands' unsentimental idealism, resilience and determination. It is a lingering guilt for me that The Troubles have always been historical historicised. Where various classes took place within the H-Block. The British government refused to back down. By Jude Collins on May 6, 2021 Cell 8 of the Maze Prison Hospital in which IRA member Bobby Sands died after 66 days on Hunger Strike. Chapel Plan. Pictured on Tuesday, July 18, 2006. However, stocks of CR gas continue to be held as tests have confirmed it to be effective as a potential counter-terrorist capability., What McCann and others involved in the campaign are asking is: Were these tests carried out in Long Kesh in 1974?. The prison was being rebuilt but differently. His images have appeared appeared internationally in publications such as National Geographic Magazine, Newsweek, Time magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian, FT Magazine, LExpress, Vanity Fair (Italy), the Sunday Times Magazine, and Internazionale. Her Majesty's 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 to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from August 1971 to September 2000. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. PRONI ref: INF/7/A/8/12.
You couldnt escape it you see. Eventually and inevitably, the British Army wrested back control of the camp. Although there were some variations across the compounds/ cages, they generally consisted of four Nissen huts which were designed to accommodate 80 men, with half of one hut serving as a dining/ recreational area. He is also a documentary filmmaker and is currently working on a Heritage Lottery Funded project, Prison Memory Archive. In January 2009, plans to build the new multi-purpose stadium on the site of the prison were cancelled, with the Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure, Gregory Campbell, citing a lack of support and concerns for a net loss to the economy. [1], Following the introduction of internment in 1971, Operation Demetrius was implemented by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and British Army with raids for 452 suspects on 9 August 1971. Within days of the agreement, the authorities went back on their word as the British Army continued to carry out intensive searches. Why do you think he described Long Kesh as a prisoner of war camp? D. Turkish people convicted of drug offenses (1 C, 3 P) Turkish drug traffickers (8 P) [P] Thats what happened the first riot in Long Kesh, in cage 2. I returned in 1982 and found a friend from the cages. McConnell: "HM Maze Prison, also known as Long Kesh and the H-Blocks, held some of the most dangerous men in Europe during its 30 year operation. I was in the middle of the first football pitch. The character is unknown to us and does not appear again. Purbrick worked with another academic Cahal McLaughlin on the oral history & documentary film project Inside Stories featuring Irish Republican Gerry Kelly, Loyalist Billy Hutchinson and ex-warder Desi Waterworth. The helicopter banked again into position and the next canister was dropped. However, the government immediately reverted to their previous stance, in the belief that the prisoners would not start another strike. I dont want to be dismissive here, as I think this is a problem many political-documentary photographers face namely, their work may not adequately reflect or contain the disputed political landscape it references. He is in rubber boots and protective clothing. Taken from an album from the Royal Ulster Constabulary archive collection. The map shows both the cages and compounds and the H-blocks, and therefore dates from some time after 1976. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. The highlight of your week would be getting the call for a visit Prisoner.
On 9 January 1998, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, paid a surprise visit to the prison to talk to members of the Ulster Defence Association including Johnny Adair, Sam "Skelly" McCrory and Michael Stone. Which ties nicely back into the crucial question about McConnells photographs of the site. Over the next 29 years, it held some of the most notorious paramilitary killers in Northern Ireland. A two-shot lasting 20 minutes or more, two intelligent men with wary mutual respect, but with opposing moral and political standpoints, squaring up, jabbing, neither able to land the knockout blow, the sadness of what will shortly unfold hanging over them (Walsh's dialogue here is pitch perfect). A multi-storey building, containing the emergency control room and various offices.
Prisoners without Special Category Status began protesting for its return immediately after they were transferred to the H-Blocks. A prefabricated building which received visitors and checked parcels. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Maze Prison was a microcosm of the political conflict that raged for over thirty years in the north of Ireland. The ideological brutality played out on the streets was matched by that meted out in the prisons, most notably Long Kesh, later renamed The Maze. Instead of the wire cages and Nissen huts we lived in, walls were going up in a new phase of the jail's expansion. All naked to the waist, just wearing the prison, the trousers from the prison uniform. It is clear that all the elements needed for the British to field test CR gas existed in Long Kesh in October 1974. "A big engine" is how he is described by Liam Cunningham playing Father Moran (based on Father Denis Faul, the worldly, canny country priest who was first admired by republican prisoners but fell into disfavour after he condemned the movement for, as he saw it, manipulating the hunger strikers). Wylie has talked about wanting to create an archive of this transitional moment. It was against this background that the decision to torch Long Kesh was taken. In challenging the prison regime over the appalling conditions they were forced to endure, the POWs refused visits, destroyed beds and bedding, rejected prison food and existed on their parcels, and as a last resort staged mass hunger strikes. Also used as a recreation room and for religious services on a Sunday. However, this number does not include about 50 000 people convicted or jailed pending trial on 'terrorism' charges. We headed in a wave back the way we came, through the door, shorter of breath, seeing less. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Long Kesh (Prison) 19 works Search for books with subject Long Kesh (Prison). In the two years following the agreement, 428 prisoners were released. These cookies do not store any personal information. The cages/compounds were segregated along political lines. That was when you saw them really happy Educator, The physical instructor would have been, he would have been refereeing the match and done everything by the book Prisoner. Why are they smearing their own shit on the walls? Courses were offered in motor-vehicle body repair, welding, electrics and joinery. Among those who walked through the gate to our cage was a softly spoken and quietly determined Derry man called Patsy O'Hara. Writing in the Observer newspaper in January 2005, Craig Morrison and Martin Bright declared: The British Government secretly authorised the use of a chemical riot control agent, fired from aerosols, water cannon or dropped from the air, to be used in prisons [in the North].. Area for washing, showering and disposal of overnight waste. The central point of the H-Block, it was actually an oblong space. As a result of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, its prisoners were released and the prison finally closed down in 2000. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. The Blanket Protest began on September 14, 1976, when Kieran Nugent, a prisoner who had just arrived in Long Kesh, categorically refused to wear a prisoner's uniform. Perhaps we should read McConnells The Maze as undefinable and undecided, just as the former prison site remains? So does any sense of solidarity, the thing of which Long Kesh's republican prisoners were so proud. If the squeegee scene is quiet and reflective, others are disturbing in the sheer verisimilitude of their violence (the only inauthentic aspect of the film is the block's quietness and the absence of camaraderie). The RUC and army arrested 342 Irish nationalists, but key Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members had been tipped off and 104 of those arrested were released when it emerged they had no paramilitary connections. In October 2019, the European Union withdrew 18m that had been approved to develop a peace centre, due to disagreements between Sinn Fin and the Democratic Unionist Party.
The Government's infrastructure organisation, the Strategic Investment Board (SIB), was tasked with taking forward the proposed stadium idea and appointed one of its senior advisers, Tony Whitehead, to manage the project. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. We had been drawn up in companies and squads, ready to fight back. The hospital contained both individual cells and small wards. Her Majesty's 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 to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from August 1971 to September 2000. Progress was very rapid. In fact, despite the opening of the H-Blocks in 1976, they remained in use until 1988, with people who had been sentenced before 1976 finishing their sentence in the cages/ compounds and anyone sentenced after March 1976 going into the H-Blocks. Prisoners convicted after March 1 1976 would not join us in the cages. PRONI ref: INF/7/A/8/19, Youd never stop the men going to their football match. Because they were the first compounds that were built. They had voted for their political representatives to pull out of talks. Each H-Block also had its own individual control room. In December 1997, IRA prisoner Liam Averill escaped dressed as a woman during a Christmas party for prisoners' children. [6] The prisoners responded by refusing to leave their cells and, as a result, the prison officers were unable to clear them. Poster depicting the 1983 escape. I think any political labels or alliances that would fall upon my family were deflected by a distant dismay at the violence of the time. With gas, courage certainly goes.
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Derivations of this name include Long Kesh, the Kesh, the Lazy K, Ceis Fada (the literal Gaelic translation meaning 'long bog'), the Cages (prisoner terminology), and the Compounds (official prison terminology). British Government documents obtained by them quote an A. W. Stephens, Head of the British Ministry of Defences DS10 section, describing Snowdrop as the contingency plan developed to deal with hijacking and other serious armed terrorist incidents with members of the SAS, transported in helicopters, trained to carry out the operation. Not only were republicans and loyalists held in separate compounds/ cages, but so were the various organisations, including the UVF, UDA, Official IRA and Provisional IRA. Other research, according to Chris Kelly, found that animals exposed to CR gas exhibited incoordination, spasms and convulsions, indicating that CR contains properties that attack the central nervous system. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. In December, the prisoners called off the hunger strike when the government appeared to concede to their demands. What do you think were some of the consequences of this segregation? A-wing was the prison's long-term section, housing men serving sentences of three years or more. Brutal raids by the British Army were another bone of contention as British soldiers exacted revenge on high-profile prisoners or those convicted of attacks on military targets. Unfortunately so did the hundreds of gasping, spewing, half-blinded men I was among. The prison closed in September 2000 after 428 prisoners had been released under the Good Friday Agreement. And other people that didnt run first thing in the mornings would have been getting up and doing their daily routine, getting washed and shaved and having breakfast and stuff. It is with similar guilt I refer readers in the first instance not to news reports or academic reflection but to a 2008 film. Gradually conditions improved and the rhythms of Long Kesh life re-established themselves: exercise and visits; court appearances and football; Irish classes and letters; reading and sexual frustration. Each H-Block was identified by a number e.g. CAHAL McLAUGHLIN is Senior Lecturer in the School of Film, Media and Journalism at the University of Ulster. In the months leading up to the burning of the Cages, continual protests and confrontations with the prison authorities were the order of the day. Fueling the prison officers' anger was a mix of sectarianism they were almost exclusively Protestant and many had loyalist sympathies and connections and a desire for revenge. Every morning he performs the ritual that he and his colleagues have come to regard as second nature: he checks his car for booby-trap devices (over the course of the protests and hunger strikes the IRA killed some 18 prison officers). With their superior firepower and overwhelming numbers as well as excessive brutality they over-ran the prisoners. The inspiring Just Seeds Collective which peddles art to fund prison rights activism pointed me via its blog toward the Poster Film-Collective of London. The Maze and its history are fascinating, discussion-worthy topics, but is it the case here that the images are nothing more than notable urban exploration? That would have taken 70 minutes roughly. These privileges included free association between prisoners, extra visits, food parcels, and the right to wear their own clothes rather than prison uniforms. On 27 October 1980, seven republican prisoners refused food and demanded political status. Underneath the flowing water they thought they saw tears in his eyes. [L] They drove it straight into the cage? When he was sent to the Long Kesh/Maze prison he refused to wear the prison uniform and adhere to the new regime. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Obviously, having been in Long Kesh, some of the movie's impact on me is particular, though I was never in the H-blocks (I was released, suddenly, before the blanket protest began). Existing prisoners remained in separate compounds and retained their Special Category Status with the last prisoner to hold this status being released in 1986. The army camp was closed in September 2000. Campaigning on the streets against the brutal treatment of political prisoners. He later worked in Asia and moved to Africa in 2007 to document the issues and stories of that continent which are widely overlooked by the international media. Despite British Government denials, it seems near certain that CR gas was used in Long Kesh. There was a small explosion in the air, perhaps 20 or 30 metres above us, as the canister splintered and the shower of bomblets announced themselves with an individual billow of white smoke, pushing gracefully out in all directions and hanging in the air for a moment like some vapoury spider before beginning their descent. The H-Block from which thirty-eight PIRA prisoners escaped by taking prisoner officers hostage and hijacking a food lorry, on 25 September 1983.
Image courtesy Ulster Aviation Society. PRONI ref: INF/7/A/8/21, Once a week youd maybe get out to the gym Prisoner, You could have played basketball, 5 a sides, volleyball, stuff like that Prisoner. Following the introduction of internment in August 1971, Long Kesh a disused World War 2 airfield near Lisburn, south of Belfast was used as an internment camp. Semi-cylindrical hut built using corrugated metal, which could be partitioned into cubicles. The capacity of the proposed stadium was later adjusted to first 35,000 and then 38,000 and the organising bodies of all three sports Irish FA, Ulster Rugby and Ulster GAA agreed in principle to support the integrated scheme. Prisoners in the last group experienced similar sensations with one telling Kelly: My body wasnt reacting to what my mind was telling it to do., The same prisoner remembers seeing grown men literally running into each other dazed, confused and screaming, adding: It is something Ill never forget.. She is author of The Architecture of Containment in D. Wylie, The Maze (Granta, 2004) and, with John Schofield and Axel Klausmeier, editor of Re-Mapping the Field: New Approaches to Conflict Archaeology (Westkreuz-Verlag, 2006). And the Brits surrounded the compound and they fired in CS gas all round. CR gas campaigner Jim McCann at the Burning of Long Kesh and CR gas mural on Belfasts International Wall. When the authorities refused to allow the prisoners O/C (Officer Commanding) to mediate it was clear nothing had really changed. Born in Belfast in 1971, DONOVAN WYLIE discovered photography at an early age. HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh) was a maximum security prison considered to be one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe. These prisoners would have cells. But in the early days when we were in this sort of frame of mind freedom: 74, freedom: 75 we led a fairly militarised type of existence, it was very military structures. All sides (there were more than two) were guilty of arrogance, obstinacy and extreme violence. HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh) was a maximum security prison considered to be one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe, and held prisoners convicted of taking part in armed paramilitary campaigns during the Troubles. Lohan may have power in the prison, but his own life hangs precariously. This has been changed. These cookies do not store any personal information. Patsy had been shot by the British on a barricade in Derry, and it was not his first time in prison. Instead they rely on McQueen's powerful visual lyricism.
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