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Peter MURPHY

RARE PHOTOS: Behind bars belfast jail reborn as whiskey distillery | Vintage Vibes

Belfast's Crumlin Road Gaol has been transformed into an Irish whiskey distillery (Credit: AFP)

Once home to paramilitary prisoners during Northern Ireland's "Troubles", a notorious Belfast jail is now home to a whiskey still that is drawing tourists to a formerly strife-torn area.

For Graeme Millar, master distiller at McConnell's Whisky, the repurposed Crumlin Road Gaol, whose four forbidding Victorian granite wings are still surrounded by high fences, is an "iconic part of Belfast's history".

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