Armagh jail was a place of imprisonment for Dolours Price and Marian Price after the sisters returned to Northern Ireland from custody in England. The available account places the jail within a consequential change in their lives: the earlier hunger-strike confrontation gave way to imprisonment in Northern Ireland, declining health, and distance from the republican movement.

The Sisters’ Imprisonment

After their conviction for the London bombings and imprisonment at Brixton Prison, Dolours and Marian Price ended their hunger strike and were returned to Northern Ireland. The book’s account places both sisters in Armagh jail in the years that followed. It does not detail the jail’s layout or describe a particular episode inside it, but identifies it as a significant location in their imprisonment.

Illness and Withdrawal

The sisters’ period in Armagh jail coincided with a retreat from the republican movement. Dolours Price later suffered an eating disorder and was released on medical grounds in April 1981. Marian Price, too, was released because of a severe eating disorder. The accounts connect Armagh jail to a period in which the sisters’ physical condition and political involvement were changing, without making the prison itself the stated cause of those changes.

Place in Their Trajectories

Armagh jail marks a contrast with Brixton Prison, where the sisters’ hunger strike had been an overt campaign for repatriation and political-prisoner status. Their subsequent imprisonment in Northern Ireland belongs to a less confrontational phase: both sisters drew back from the republican movement, while serious illness shaped their eventual release. The jail therefore serves as a point in the sisters’ passage from armed commitment and prison protest toward separation from active republican life.