Republican News · Thursday 4 December
1997
Irish political prisoners
Send Christmas Cards
A special bumper double issue of An Phoblacht will be
published on Thursday 18 December. It will carry greetings for
republican prisoners of war. If there are more greetings than we
can accommodate, preference will be given to the families of the
POWs. To guarantee that your greeting gets to the prisoner, we
recommend you send a card directly to the jail.
The deadline for receipt of Christmas notices at our Dublin
and Belfast offices is 4pm on Friday 12 December.
Shoemakers were invented for the Irish
Crisp munch of compressed snow,
Footprints
follow
footprints.
Many feet...
Constantly changing footprints
as a snake of solidarity
inches its way into history.
Heads down, shoulders hunched
leaning on bitter gusts of open streets.
``Nature's against us too,'' thinks the old woman.
Little ones finding protective shields
in flaps of parents' coats.
The strong faces face on
proud to endure the season's rage as well.
Determined expressions of resistance,
a dignified defiance directed
at the morale
of crouched camouflaged symbols
of their oppression
silently passed
not to be forgotten
or allowed to forget.
Footprints
follow
footprints.
Snowflakes light on makeshift placards
while the ink
of a POW's name
runs, then drips
onto
a
mother's
cold
hands.
By Brendan Mead
Political Prisoners |
Name | Sentence | Area | Location |
England
PATRICK KELLY | REM | Longford | Belmarsh |
SEAMUS McARDLE | REM | Armagh | Belmarsh |
BRIAN McHUGH | REM | Fermanagh | Belmarsh |
JAMES MURPHY | REM | England | Belmarsh |
MICHAEL PHILLIPS | REM | England | Belmarsh |
PAT MARTIN | 35 | Belfast | Belmarsh |
ROISIN McALISKEY | REM | Tyrone | |
GERRY HANRATTY | 35 | Dublin | Frankland |
NICHOLAS MULLEN | 30 | Sligo | Frankland |
JOE O'CONNELL | LIFE | Clare | Frankland |
LIAM O'DUIBHIR | 30 | Dublin | Frankland |
LIAM QUINN | LIFE | San Francisco | Frankland |
VINCENT DONNELLY | LIFE | Tyrone | Full Sutton |
DONAL GANNON | 35 | Dublin | Full Sutton |
PAUL MAGEE | 30 | Belfast | Full Sutton |
EOIN MORROW | 35 | Louth | Full Sutton |
PETER SHERRY | LIFE | Tyrone | Full Sutton |
JOHN CRAWLEY | 35 | Dublin | Whitemoor |
EDDIE BUTLER | LIFE | Limerick | Whitemoor |
HUGH DOHERTY | LIFE | Donegal | Whitemoor |
HARRY DUGGAN | LIFE | Clare | Whitemoor |
FRANKIE RAFFERTY | 35 | Dublin | Whitemoor |
JAN TAYLOR | 30 | London | Whitemoor |
Long Kesh
H4A
JOHN BRADY | LIFE | Strabane | H4A |
MARK CLEARY | LIFE | Belfast | H4A |
TERRY CLINTON | 14 | The Markets | H4A |
KIERAN COLLINS | 10 | Beechmount | H4A |
CHRISTOPHER CRAVEN | LIFE | Belfast | H4A |
ANTHONY DEERY | 20 | Derry | H4A |
CATHAL FOX | 16 | St James's | H4A |
SEAN GRIFFIN | 16 | Toome | H4A |
PADDY IRELAND | 10 | Beechmount | H4A |
SEAN KELLY | 24 | Toome | H4A |
SEAN KELLY | LIFE | Ardoyne | H4A |
MARTIN LAFFERTY | 19 | Sion Mills | H4A |
SEAMUS MADDEN | 27 | Toome | H4A |
BILL MADDEN | | Toome | H4A |
TOM McALLISTER | 16 | Lower Falls | H4A |
ARAN McCART | 17 | New Lodge | H4A |
MARK McDOWELL | REM | Short Strand | H4A |
WILLIAM McGAHEY | 20 | Derry | H4A |
SEAMUS McGARRIGLE | LIFE | Strabane | H4A |
PATSY McGURK | LIFE | Tyrone | H4A |
EAMON MOORE | LIFE | Derry | H4A |
FRANK O'KANE | 18 | S/Derry | H4A |
MICHAEL O'NEILL | REM | Dungiven | H4A |
MARK SKILLEN | 15 | Beechmount | H4A |
H4B
CRAIG BANNON | 14 | Lisnaskea | H4B |
PEARCE DARCY | 8 | Omagh | H4B |
LIAM GALLEN | 14 | Tyrone | H4B |
PADDY GALLEN | LIFE | Tyrone | H4B |
EUGENE GALLEN | 12 | Tyrone | H4B |
EDDIE GRIEVE | REM | Dungiven | H4B |
FINBAR GRIEVE | REM | Dungiven | H4B |
JOE HARPER | LIFE | Kilkeel | H4B |
NOEL HEALY | 14 | dersonstown | H4B |
HARRY McCARTNEY | LIFE | Armagh | H4B |
NIGEL McDERMOTT | LIFE | Strabane | H4B |
JJ McGEOUGH | 17 | Tyrone | H4B |
SEAN McGUIGAN | 20 | Downpatrick | H4B |
DARCY McMENAMIN | 8 | Tyrone | H4B |
LOUIS McNALLY | 22 | Tyrone | H4B |
EAMONN MOORE | LIFE | Derry | H4B |
DECLAN MOORE | 20 | Derry | H4B |
DECLAN MURPHY | 18 | South Armagh | H4B |
ANTHONY RAISEY | 12 | Short Strand | H4B |
CONAL TIMONEY | 5 | Castlederg | H4B |
H4C
BRIAN ARTHURS | 25 | Dungannon | H4C |
MARTIN BULLOCK | LIFE | Tyrone | H4C |
KEVIN CAMPBELL | 10 | Dungannon | H4C |
MICHAEL CARRAGHER | REM | South Armagh | H4C |
GREGORY CARROLL | 22 | Armagh | H4C |
STEVEN CONLON | 20 | Tyrone | H4C . |
CORMAC CONLON | 14 | Armagh | H4C |
SEAN CONNOLLY | 20 | Ballymurphy | H4C |
ROBBIE DAVIDSON | 14 | Armagh | H4C |
SEAN DUFFY | 17 | Tyrone | H4C |
PAUL JOHN DUFFY | 9 | Derry | H4C |
PAUL EDWARDS | REM | Belfast | H4C |
NED FLYNN | 19 | dersonstown | H4C |
RICHIE HARKIN | 20 | Derry | H4C |
SEAN HUGHES | 12 | Belfast | H4C |
SEAN KELLY | LIFE | St James's | H4C |
OLIVER MASTERSON | 24 | dersonstown | H4C |
PAUL McEVOY | 16 | New Lodge | H4C |
PADDY McGENNITY | 18 | Newry | H4C |
BRIAN McGUIGAN | REM | Draperstown | H4C |
MARTIN MINES | REM | South Armagh | H4C |
DAMIEN NICELL | LIFE | Derry | H4C |
MICK O'HARA | 14 | Armagh | H4C |
MICHAEL TIMMONS | LIFE | Twinbrook | H4C |
H4D
MICHAEL BENNET | 24 | dersonstown | H4D |
LEO CUNNINGHAM | 24 | Kilkeel | H4D |
JOHN DOBBIN | REM | The Markets | H4D |
JOE DOHERTY | LIFE | New Lodge | H4D |
PADDY DONAGHY | 10 | dersonstown | H4D |
GERARD GEARON | REM | Ardoyne | H4D |
BRIAN HUNTER | LIFE | Ardoyne | H4D |
TERRY LAVERY | REM | St James's | H4D |
HARRY McCANN | 15 | Randalstown | H4D |
VIVIAN McDONALD | 18 | Tyrone | H4D |
BERNARD McGINN | REM | Castleblayney | H4D |
COLM McILWEE | | Belfast | H4D |
NOEL McKAY | LIFE | Lower Falls | H4D |
STEPHEN McSTRAVICK | 14 | The Markets | H4D |
ALEX MURPHY | LIFE | dersonstown | H4D |
DOMINIC MURPHY | 10 | Tyrone | H4D |
JOHN O'HAGAN | 16 | New Lodge | H4D |
H5A
SEAN BOYLE | 18 | New Lodge | H5A |
PADDY CORRIGAN | 10 | Ardoyne | H5A |
DAVID DELANEY | 16 | Ardoyne | H5A |
TONY DOHERTY | LIFE | Derry | H5A |
SEAN FAY | 16 | dersonstown | H5A |
MICHAEL HILLEN | 21 | Newry | H5A |
FRANCIS MAHER | 25 | Turf Lodge | H5A |
ROY McCOOL | 20 | Derry | H5A |
DERMOT McERLAINE | 11 | Toome | H5A |
STEPHEN McGUIGAN | 12 | The Markets | H5A |
EUGENE McKEE | 18 | dersonstown | H5A |
MICHAEL McKEE | 20 | Ballymurphy | H5A |
HUGH McKEE | 22 | Belfast | H5A |
PETER MONTGOMERY | 14 | The Markets | H5A |
DAMIEN MORGAN | 25 | New Lodge | H5A |
STEPHEN MURPHY | REM | South Armagh | H5A |
BARRY MURRAY | 18 | Lisnaskea | H5A |
KEVIN MURRAY | 18 | Strabane | H5A |
DOMINIC NICHOLL | LIFE | Coalisland | H5A |
JOHN PEIRCE | 10 | New Lodge | H5A |
TONY TAYLOR | 18 | Derry | H5A |
SEAN McNULTY | 25 | Tyrone | H5A |
H5B
DON BROWNE | LIFE | Derry | H5B |
BARNEY CAMPBELL | LIFE | Tyrone | H5B |
BRENDAN CAMPBELL | 20 | Coalisland | H5B |
MARTIN DILLON | 14 | Derry | H5B |
CIARAN FERRY | 22 | dersonstown | H5D |
DARRAN FITZPATRICK | 15 | Lisnaskea | H5B |
ARTHUR FORBES | 18 | Strabane | H5B |
MARK HANNIGAN | 18 | Strabane | H5B |
GAVIN HAWKINS | 10 | New Lodge | H5B |
PAUL JOHNSTON | 15 | dersonstown | H5B |
BRENDAN McCANN | REM | Dermot Hill | H5B |
JOHN McFADDEN | 15 | Lower Falls | H5B |
JIM McGIVERN | 20 | Ballymurphy | H5B |
MICKY McHUGH | 14 | dersonstown | H5B |
KIERAN MURRAY | LIFE | Lurgan | H5B |
THOMAS O'DWYER | 22 | Beechmount | H5B |
DERMOTT QUINN | 25 | The Moy | H5B |
FRANKIE TENNYSON | 17 | Portadown | H5B |
H5C
TOM BRENNAN | LIFE | Strabane | H5C |
MARK BROGAN | 14 | Derry | H5C |
JAMES DUFFIN | LIFE | Tyrone | H5C |
PETER LYNCH | 24 | dersonstown | H5C |
WILLIAM McATEER | LIFE | Strabane | H5C |
JIMMY McCLEEVE | LIFE | New Lodge | H5C |
PAUL McCREADY | 12 | Strabane | H5C |
CHARLIE McKIERNAN | LIFE | The Markets | H5C |
OLIVER McKINLEY | 24 | Lower Falls | H5C |
TOM McVEIGH | 16 | dersonstown | H5C |
GERARD O'NEILL | REM | New Lodge | H5C |
FRANCIS ROONEY | 12 | New Barnsley | H5C |
MICKY ROULSTON | 18 | Fermanagh | H5C |
PAUL STITT | 22 | New Lodge | H5C |
JOHN TUMELTY | REM | Belfast | H5C |
H5D
GARY BRESLIN | 18 | Strabane | H5D |
SEAN CAMPBELL | 14 | New Lodge | H5D |
TARLAC CONNOLLY | LIFE | Armagh | H5D |
KEVIN COSGROVE | 21 | St James's | H5D |
GERRY MAGEE | 20 | trim | H5D |
EMMANUEL MARLEY | 20 | Ardoyne | H5D |
SEAN MATHERS | 20 | Newry | H5D |
DERMOT McERLAINE | 11 | Toome | H5D |
PAT McGUIGAN | 12 | The Markets | H5D |
PATRICK McMAHON | 12 | Turf Lodge | H5D |
PAT MEEHAN | 20 | Derry | H5D |
MARTY MOLLOY | 24 | Strabane | H5D |
GARY MONAGHAN | 15 | Beechmount | H5D |
JAMES MORGAN | 14 | St James's | H5D |
PAUD MULLIGAN | 16 | Lisnaskea | H5D |
TONY O'NEILL | 20 | dersonstown | H5D |
PAT SHEEHAN | 24+2 | St James's | H5D |
SEANNA WALSH | 22 | Poleglass | H5D |
CHRISTY WALSH | 12 | Beechmount | H5D |
H8A
MICHAEL MERVYN | 17 | Twinbrook | H8A |
JOE BRENNAN | 16 | South Armagh | H8A |
TOMMY BROGAN | 30 | Strabane | H8A |
JAMES CANNING | 30 | South Armagh | H8A |
THOMAS COSGROVE | 16 | Ardoyne | H8A |
KEVIN DONEGAN | 08 | South Armagh | H8A |
RORY DOUGAN | LIFE | dersonstown | H8D |
BERTIE DUFFY | LIFE | Belfast | H8A |
HARRY FITZSIMMONS | 16 | Whiterock | H8A |
BERNARD FOX | 22 | St James's | H8A |
TOMMY FOX | LIFE | Belfast | H8A |
MARTIN GERVIN | LIFE | Coalisland | H8A |
PACKY LEONARD | 20 | Short Strand | H8A |
TOMMY MARRON | 16 | South Armagh | H8A |
BRENDAN McANOY | 25 | Lower Falls | H8A |
DECLAN McCOMISH | REM | South Armagh | H8A |
SEAN McKINLEY | LIFE | Divis | H8A |
CHRISTOPHER MORAN | REM | Belfast | H8A |
SEAMUS MULLAN | LIFE | South Derry | H8A |
MYLES MURPHY | 24 | Lower Falls | H8A |
DAN ROONEY | 16 | St James's | H8A |
THOMAS QUIGLEY | LIFE | Belfast | H8A |
H8B
MICKY BRESLIN | 25 | Derry | H8B |
MICHAEL CAMPBELL | 18 | New Lodge | H8B |
MICHAEL DOHERTY | 16 | Ardoyne | H8B |
JIM DONNELLY | 22 | Ballymurphy | H8B |
MICHAEL DUFFY | LIFE | Beechmount | H8B |
RAB FRYERS | 25 | Belfast | H8B |
TOMMY HUGHES | 10 | New Lodge | H8B |
THOMAS JACKS | 20 | Scotland | H8B |
PAUL KAVANAGH | LIFE | Beechmount | H8B |
BOBBY MAHON | 12 | New Lodge | H8B |
PETER McALEESE | 10 | Toome | H8B |
KEVIN McCANN | 25 | Lower Falls | H8B |
LIAM McCOTTER | 17 | Belfast | H5A |
GERRY McDONNELL | LIFE | Belfast | H8B |
LIAM McNALLY | 22 | dersonstown | H8B |
THOMAS McWILLIAMS | LIFE | Ardoyne | H8B |
DERMOTT MOORE | LIFE | Tyrone | H8B |
RORY MORGAN | REM | Belfast | H8B |
MARTIN NELSON | 18 | Lisnaskea | H8B |
SEAN O'HAGAN | 24 | Dungannon | H8B |
GERRY O'NEILL | 16 | Lower Falls | H8B |
H8C
GERARD BRADLEY | 10 | Unity Flats | H8C |
DESMOND CHRISTIE | REM | Dublin | H8C |
ROBERT CRAWFORD | LIFE | The Bone | H8C |
BOBBY FITZSIMMONS | 20 | Short Strand | H8C |
PADDY HAMILL | 16 | Portadown | H8C |
SEAMUS HAWKINS | REM | Twinbrook | H8C |
PHIL MANNING | LIFE | Clonard | H8C |
PETER MARKEY | LIFE | Newry | H8C |
BRENDAN LENNON | REM | South Armagh | H8C |
TONY McCOLGAN | 12 | Omagh | H8C |
DAMIEN McCOMB | 30 | Belfast | H8C |
PAUL McCULLOUGH | 20 | Ballymurphy | H8C |
BRENDAN McELKERNEY | REM | Lower Falls | H8C |
KEVIN McSHANE | 16 | Beechmount | H8C |
GEORDIE MERVYN | 14 | Beechmount | H8C |
PADDY MURRAY | 25 | Beechmount | H8C |
JIM SMITH | 20 | Ardoyne | H8C |
BOBBY STOREY | REM | dersonstown | H8C |
ALBERT WEIR | 18 | dersonstown | H8C |
PADRAIC WILSON | 24 | dersonstown | H8C |
PATRICK MAGEE | LIFE | Belfast | H8C |
H8D
DAVY ADAMS | 25 | dersonstown | H8D |
LIAM AVERILL | LIFE | South Derry | H8D |
GERRY BUTLER | LIFE | Ballycastle | H8D |
STEPHEN CANNING | 20 | dersonstown | H8D |
COLM COYLE | 14 | Newry | H8D |
SEAMUS DOHERTY | 20 | Derry | H8D |
EUGENE GILMARTIN | LIFE | Belfast | H8D |
SEAN HILL | 16 | Ballycastle | H8D |
GERARD LOUGHLIN | 15 | Belfast | H8D |
SEAN LYNCH | 25 | Fermanagh | H8D |
GERARD MACKEN | 25 | Beechmount | H8D |
STEPHEN MAGEE | 20 | Ballymurphy | H8D |
KEVIN McCAFFERY | REM | dersonstown | H8D |
PADDY McGILLOWAY | 22 | Derry | H8D |
FRANCIE McGOLDRICK | 14 | Lisnaskea | H8D |
NOEL McHUGH | LIFE | Lisnaskea | H8D |
JIM McVEIGH | 24 | Lower Falls | H8D |
CIARAN MORRISON | 25 | Beechmount | H8D |
PADDY O'DOWD | LIFE | Lurgan | H8D |
FEILIM O'hADHMAILL | 25 | Twinbrook | H8D |
DEREK SWEETMAN | REM | Dublin | H8D |
Maghaberry
PETER BATESON | 25 | South Derry | Maghaberry |
MARTINA ANDERSON | LIFE | Derry | Maghaberry |
ROSENA BROWN | 20 | dersonstown | Maghaberry |
AILISH CARROLL | 15 | Armagh | Maghaberry |
GERALDINE FERRITY | LIFE | Tyrone | Maghaberry |
ROSALEEN McCORLEY | 22 | dersonstown | Maghaberry |
ROISIN MCLAUGHLIN | REM | Donegal | Maghaberry |
ELLA O'DWYER | LIFE | Tipperary | Maghaberry |
MAIRE WRIGHT | 24 | dersonstown | Maghaberry |
26 Counties
Mountjoy
BRENDAN DOWD | LIFE | Kerry | Mountjoy |
TOMMY McMAHON | LIFE | Monaghan | Mountjoy |
ANTON ROGERS | 6 | Donegal | Mountjoy |
Portlaoise
FRANK BURKE | REM | Dublin | Portlaoise |
CIARAN CHAMBERS | 7 | Dublin | Portlaoise |
GABRIEL CLEARY | REM | Dublin | Portlaoise |
JOHN CONATY | REM | Dublin | Portlaoise |
DEREK DOHERTY | 25 | Dublin | Portlaoise |
TONY DUNCAN | REM | Dublin | Portlaoise |
TOMMY ECCLES | 40 | Louth | Portlaoise |
DREW GILLESPIE | 10 | Donegal | Portlaoise |
JAMES GINLEY | 7 | Monaghan | Portlaoise |
TONY HEANEY | 15 | Derry | Portlaoise |
MATTHEW HENESSY | 10 | Dublin | Portlaoise |
JIMMY HUGHES | 12 | Tyrone | Portlaoise |
PATRICK KAVANAGH | 6 | Derry | Portlaoise |
SEAN KINSELLA | LIFE | Monaghan | Portlaoise |
DENIS LAHIFFE | 9 | Waterford | Portlaoise |
PARAIC MAC FHLOINN | 35 | Dublin | Portlaoise |
NOEL MAGEE | 12 | Donegal | Portlaoise |
ANDREW MARTIN | 5 | Dublin | Portlaoise |
SIMON MAXWELL | 6 | Westmeath | Portlaoise |
PEARSE McAULEY | REM | Tyrone | Portlaoise |
PATRICK MCCARTNEY | 6 | Derry | Portlaoise |
BRIAN MCNALLY | REM | Dublin | Portlaoise |
BRIAN McSHANE | 40 | Louth | Portlaoise |
JOHN MOYNA | 7 | Monaghan | Portlaoise |
PAT MURPHY | 5 | Meath | Portlaoise |
PAUL MURRAY | 6 | Derry | Portlaoise |
MICK O'BRIEN | 18 | Dublin | Portlaoise |
BERNARD O'HAGAN | 6 | Derry | Portlaoise |
CONOR O'NEILL | 12 | Tyrone | Portlaoise |
MICHAEL O'NEILL | 18 | Limerick | Portlaoise |
NESSAN QUINLIVAN | REM | Limerick | Portlaoise |
PETER RODGERS | 40 | Belfast | Portlaoise |
JERRY SHEEHY | REM | Limerick | Portlaoise |
HUGH WILKINSON | 6 | Derry | Portlaoise |
VINCENT WOOD | 22 | Mayo | Portlaoise |
DENIS KINSELLA | 25 | Dublin | Portlaoise |
PATRICK HAYES | 30 | London | Portlaoise |
USA
RICHARD JOHNSTON | 10 | | USA |
KEVIN BARRY ARTT | | Belfast | USA |
POL BRENNAN | | Belfast | USA |
TERRY KIRKBY | | Belfast | USA |
Information supplied by Sinn Féin POW Department
Prison addresses
HMP Belmarsh
Western Way
Thamesmead
London SE 28
|
HMP Frankland
Finchale Avenue
Brasside
Low Newton
Durham
|
HMP Full Sutton
York
YO4 1PS
|
HMP Whitemoor
Long Hill Road
March
Cambridgeshire
PE1 5QDR
|
Portlaoise Prison
Portlaoise
County Laois
|
H Blocks
Long Kesh
Lisburn
County Antrim
BT27 5RP
| |
Maghaberry Prison
Old Road
Upper Ballinderry
Lisburn
County Antrim
BT2 82JP
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