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Notorious IRA Belfast prison to be transformed into whiskey distillery

State of the art Cooley Distillery facility to create up to 60 jobs

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As I understand it, Loyalist paramilitaries were also interned in this prison. The word "whiskey" is got from the Irish "unisce beatha" (water of life). Loyalists are also called Tories,another term derived from an Irisl word, "oraidhe" meaning robber. The Isish language makes a lot of sense, but many Irish people, including a slusa(also an Irish word)of politicians are as likely to reject it as the censors who banned Joyce's "Ulysses" .
Please don't call it an IRA prison just because some IRA members were imprisoned there. It also house Loyalist and civilian inmates. The whiskey distillery will only occupy one business unit on one wing but it's good to see a distillery back in Belfast where there were once many!
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