r/IrishHistory • u/liamwelsh_yt • 1d ago

💬 Discussion / Question IRA POW camps

I’m drawing the inside of what it says in the title for art class. What would the walls/floor looked like?

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u/Environmental-Video3 1d ago

Which IRA? Kilmainham or Long Kesh?

Although pedantically I don’t think either generation/version got full political recognition as “POW” by the British government. There was a special category status after the hunger strikes in 72 though.

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u/liamwelsh_yt 1d ago

like circa 1910s/1920s

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u/TrivialBanal 1d ago

Maybe look at Frongoch. It was an internment camp in Wales. They weren't officially prisoners of war, they weren't even officially prisoners because they weren't put through the legal process.

It was a makeshift camp. If you've seen any war films set in prisoner camps, something like that. Tents and huts.

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u/unsilent_majority 1d ago

The IRA didn’t exist until 1919

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u/liamwelsh_yt 1d ago

which is the 1910s

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u/FlakyAssociation4986 1d ago

do you mean the camps captured ira prisoners were kept in?

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u/liamwelsh_yt 1d ago

ig, yeah

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u/SeanMandeville 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh that’s a pity, because the IRA also ran prisons: Sing Sing in Cork.

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/extract-year-of-disappearances-sing-sing-3148651-Dec2016/

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u/jxm900 1d ago

From what era?

Over the decades, IRA people have been imprisoned in Kilmainham, Portlaoise, Mountjoy, Crumlin Road, Pentonville, and Brixton. As well as the Curragh Camp and another place in North Wales, after 1916 I believe. Also HMS Argenta in the 1920s and HMS Maidstone in the 1970s.

If y're thinking of Long Kesh specifically, you might want to search for cell photos taken during the on-the-blanket dirty protests around the time of the hunger strikes.

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u/liamwelsh_yt 1d ago

like 1910s/1920s

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u/StellaV-R 21h ago

Dark, uneven flagstones

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u/Mr-C-Dives-In 12h ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/qpjlrcNPmjM?is=c7GGSXaVpCqGU0lT

Here is a short on my grandfather being in The Curragh in 1923

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u/DitheringDotty 7h ago

They didn't have political prisoner status during imprisonment in the 1910s/1920s. Read about Thomas Ashe who died on hunger strike in 1917 after being brutally forcefed. His hunger strike was in protest at being classified as a criminal and he wanted political prisoner status.