Event
Maze Prison escape: 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners with arms escaped from HM Prison Maze in County Antrim
25 Sep 1983 · 54.49° N, 6.11° W
What the records say
- When
- 25 Sep 1983
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 54.49° N, 6.11° W
- Description
- Maze Prison escape: 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners with arms escaped from HM Prison Maze in County Antrim.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Maze Prison escape.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “38 prisonniers de l’IRA s’évadent de la prison de Maze en Irlande du Nord”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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