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Mountjoy Prison

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  • Cumann na mBan July 23, 1921.jpg

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  • Men on hunger strike, one holding a placard which reads "we have 'Em" (36302361721).jpg

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  • TheJoy.jpg

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  • Thos Whelan + Patrick Moran? March 1921 (35680736786).jpg

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Capacity

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Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1850

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1850

Region

Dublin

Security level

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Death-row facility

No

Conditions

No conditions summary available yet.

Visiting

No visiting information available.

Mailing

No mailing information available.

Practical info

Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.

Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Notable inmates

  • Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
    Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
    1877–1946 · activist

    Johanna Mary Sheehy-Skeffington (née Sheehy; 24 May 1877 – 20 April 1946) was a suffragette and Irish nationalist.

  • Seamus Twomey
    1919–1989 · political activist

    Seamus Twomey (Irish: Séamus Ó Tuama; 5 November 1919 – 12 September 1989) was an Irish republican activist, militant, and twice chief of staff of the Provisional IRA.

  • Thomas Ashe
    Thomas Ashe
    1885–1917 · politician

    Thomas Patrick Ashe (Irish: Tomás Pádraig Ághas; 12 January 1885 – 25 September 1917) was an Irish revolutionary and politician.

  • Antonin Artaud
    Antonin Artaud
    1896–1948 · playwright

    Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud (; French: [aʁto]; 4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃tɔnɛ̃ aʁto]), was a French artist who worked across a variety of media.

  • Seán MacBride
    Seán MacBride
    1904–1988 · diplomat

    Seán MacBride (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988) was an Irish Republican activist, politician, and diplomat who served as Minister for External Affairs from 1948 to 1951, Leader of Clann na Poblachta from 1946 to 1965 and Chief of Staff of the IRA from 1936 to 1937.

  • Maire Comerford
    Maire Comerford
    1893–1982 · writer

    Mary Eva Comerford (2 June 1893 – 15 December 1982) was an Irish republican from County Wexford.

  • Madeleine ffrench Mullen
    Madeleine ffrench Mullen
    1880–1944 · revolutionary

    Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (30 December 1880 – 26 May 1944) was an Irish revolutionary and labour activist who took part in the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. Ffrench-Mullen was a member of the radical nationalist women's organisation Inghinidhe na hÉireann.

Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.

Contact & address

North Circular Road, Dublin

No public contact details available.

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World Prisons. (2026). Mountjoy Prison. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/mountjoy-prison
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"Mountjoy Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/mountjoy-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-mountjoy-prison,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Mountjoy Prison},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/mountjoy-prison},
  urldate = {2026-10-15}
}