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Dundonald House. Dundonald House (Irish: Teach Dhún Dónaill, Ulster-Scots: Dundoanal Haa) is a government building in Belfast, Northern Ireland.Built in 1962 it housed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Prison Service until 2023 when the building closed on safety grounds.
Dundonald House is the current headquarters for the Prison Service. The Northern Ireland Prison Service is the agency charged with managing prisons in Northern Ireland.. It is an executive agency of the Department of Justice, the headquarters of which are in Dundonald House in the Stormont Estate in Belfast.
Ardcarn, (Irish: Árd-Carna, Árd-charna) is a Protestant working-class housing estate located in Dundonald, East Belfast, Northern Ireland. [1] The estate sits off the Upper Newtownards Road, across from Stormont. [2] Dundonald Cemetery lies to the side the estate, with the Comber Greenway, Tullycarnet and East Point Entertainment Village ...
Economy Minister Conor Murphy was once held in the Crumlin Road Gaol accused of Provisional IRA membership.
19 April – A female prison officer is shot dead and three colleagues are injured in an IRA gun and grenade attack outside Armagh women's prison. [1] 19 April – A British Army school cadet officer is shot dead by an IRA sniper in Belfast. [1] 7 June – European Parliament election, the first direct election to the European Parliament.
Children from impoverished working-class families were often imprisoned at the gaol in the early years for offences such as stealing food or clothing. Thirteen-year-old Patrick Magee, who had been sentenced to three months in prison, hanged himself in his cell in 1858. [2] [3] Women inmates were kept in the prison block house until the early 1900s.
It’s very bad because you think it is a prison.” He said he does not feel safe from Covid-19 at the barracks, adding: “Every time, there are three or four buildings in the camp in quarantine.”
Dundonald acquired rail links to Belfast and Newtownards in 1850, Downpatrick in 1859 and Newcastle in 1869. The town was located on the once extensive Belfast and County Down Railway mainline. The rail link with Belfast encouraged Dundonald to expand as a commuter town, but in 1950 the railway line running through Dundonald was closed.