Mountjoy Prison
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Mountjoy Prison, founded as Mountjoy Gaol and nicknamed The Joy, is a medium security men's prison located in Phibsborough in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. The current prison Governor is Ray Murtagh.
View of the prison from North Circular Road
Mountjoy Prison, seen from Devery's Lane.
Antonin Artaud
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Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and ci
Mountjoy Prison
…A former governor was Charles Arthur Munro, brother of the Edwardian satirist Saki. The schizophrenic French surrealist playwright Antonin Artaud was briefly detained in Mountjoy before his deportation from Ireland as "a destitute and undesirable alien". During the Irish War of Independence many…
Artaud in 1926
Self-portrait of Artaud from 1947