#OTD in 1983 – Long Kesh Prison Escape | Thirty-eight members of the IRA escaped from the maximum security Long Kesh prison near Lisburn.
Two years after the epic 1981 H-Block Hunger Strike in which ten young republicans died, there was another epic event at Long Kesh that dealt a huge blow to the Thatcher regime in Ireland. This was the escape of thirty-eight IRA prisoners from H-Block 7 on Sunday 25 September 1983. At 2:15pm that day, three prisoners, carrying concealed pistols fitted with silencers and which had been smuggled…
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