detained in Mountjoy before his deportation from Ireland as "a destitute and undesirable alien". Thomas Ashe was also a former inmate of the jail for his involvement in the Easter rising 1916. After a protest of starvation he was transferred across the street to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital on 25 September 1916 where he died a few hours after arrival. Peadar O'Donnell, IRA Commander of the 2nd Northern Division was imprisoned in Mountjoy Gaol and the Curragh. Following the end of the Irish Civil War, he participated in the mass republican hunger strike (1923 Irish Hunger Strikes), remaining on hunger strike for 41 days. O'Donnell's prison experience and eventual escape in March 1924, are described in his 1932 memoir The Gates Flew Open. Bibliography Carey, Tim : Mountjoy – The Story of a Prison :The Collins Press : 2000 : See also Prisons in Ireland Loughan House, a low security open centre in Co. Cavan also run by the Irish Prison Service. Kilmainham Gaol, a former prison, located in Kilmainham in Dublin, which is now a museum. Executions during the Irish Civil War References External links Mountjoy Prison Minister announces site for new Mountjoy complex — from the official Irish Prison Service website Inspector-General of Prisons and Places of Detention, 3rd Annual Report – 2005 Mountjoy Prison Visiting Committee 2004 Annual Report Mountjoy Prison Portraits of Irish Independence: Photograph Albums in the Thomas A. Larcom Collection Buildings and structures in Dublin (city) Prisons in the Republic of Ireland 1850 establishments in Ireland