Belfast Prison News Today

November 28 1973 Sir – With the setting up of the new Executive, we see another settlement imposed by the British Government on the Irish people.

A crazed loyalist knife-killer – jailed for life for stabbing his fiancée nearly 50 times – is back on the streets, the Sunday World can reveal.

Morgan Freeman has form when it comes to daring prison breakouts.

Our old pal Tom Hartley is a fine singer. He and I have been known to duet together. Back in the day, in C Wing in Belfast Prison on the Crumlin Ro...

ON August 15 1921, at a low-key ceremony in the unlikely setting of Portrush Town Hall, Sir Denis Stanislaus Henry was sworn in as the first Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.

Updated / Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021 11:52 In the newly published third volume of academic and author Seán McConvilles comprehensive history Irish Political Prisoners, 1960–2000, McConville offers in his words, a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict, and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum-security prisons. Below, the author introduces an extract from the boo...