Armagh Women's Prison

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Armagh Women's Prison in Northern Ireland was the scene of a protest by women Irish Republican prisoners demanding political status, although the numbers involved were much smaller than in the Maze (also known as Long Kesh) men's prison. As all women prisoners in Northern Ireland already had the right to wear their own clothes, they did not stage any sort of blanket protest, but in their case the dirty protest included smearing their menstrual blood on the cell walls. Three women in Armagh took part in the 1980 hunger strike, one of whom, Mairéad Farrell, was shot by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988, but none took part in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.