The dirty protest (also called the no wash protest)[1] was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze Prison (also known as "Long Kesh") and a protest at Armagh Women's Prison in Northern Ireland. In March 1978 some prisoners refused to leave their cells to shower or use the lavatory because of attacks by prison officers, and the inmates would later start smearing excrement on the walls of their cells.
- ^ Melanie McFadyean (4 March 2006). "The legacy of the hunger strikes". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 October 2007.