Dirty protest
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The dirty protest was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners held in the Maze Prison and a protest at Armagh
A prison cell during the dirty protest
Blanket protest
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The blanket protest was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners held in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. T
Dirty protest
…the first of nineteen prison officers to be killed during the five-year protest. On 14 September 1976 newly convicted prisoner Kieran Nugent began the blanket protest, in which IRA and INLA prisoners refused to wear prison uniform and either went naked or fashioned garments from prison blankets. In March 1978 some…
Maze prison outside of Belfast.