Mountjoy may refer to:

Places

Brockagh Brockagh (or Brocagh,"Brocagh and Belville House"
Culture Northern I ...

(also known as Mountjoy), a hamlet in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland * Mountjoy, Ontario, a neighbourhood in Timmins, Ontario, Canada * Mountjoy Castle, a castle in Magheralamfield, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland *

Mountjoy Prison Mountjoy Prison (), founded as Mountjoy Gaol and nicknamed The Joy, is a medium security men's prison located in Phibsborough in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. The current prison Governor is Ray Murtagh. History Mountjoy was designed by Cap ...

, a medium security prison in Dublin, Ireland opened in 1850 * Mountjoy Square, a city square in Dublin * Mountjoy, a former barony of Ireland now known as Dungannon Upper * '' Monte do Gozo'' (Mountjoy), the hill near Santiago de Compostella where pilgrims get their first sight of the cathedral * ''Mons Gaudi'' (Mountjoy), now Nabi Samwil, the hill roughly 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) north of Jerusalem where the army of the First Crusade rejoiced upon getting their first glimpse of Jerusalem in June of 1099 * Mountjoy, Durham, an escarpment south of Durham, England, where pilgrims got their first view of the cathedral, now home to a campus of Durham University

People

Title

* Baron Mountjoy, a hereditary title given to the men of two families **

William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy (8 November 1534), KG, of Barton Blount, Derbyshire, was an extremely influential English courtier, a respected humanistic scholar and patron of learning. He was one of the most influential and perhaps the we ...

(died 1534) **

Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (28 June 151610 October 1544), was an English courtier and patron of learning. Life Charles Blount was born on 28 June 1516 in Tournai, where his father, William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, was governor. His m ...

(1516–1544) ** Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, Lord Mountjoy,

Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive (government), executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland. He deputised prior to 1523 for the Viceroy of Ireland ...

Surname

* Celeste Mountjoy, Australian artist and illustrator * Dick Mountjoy (1932–2015), American politician from California * Don Mountjoy (1906–1988), Australian politician *

Doug Mountjoy Douglas James Mountjoy (8 June 1942 – 14 February 2021) was a Welsh snooker player from Tir-y-Berth, Gelligaer, Wales. He was a member of the professional snooker circuit from the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, and remained within t ...

(1942–2021), Welsh Snooker player * Eric W. Mountjoy (1931–2010), Canadian emeritus professor at McGill University * Penelope Mountjoy, archaeologist

Given name

* Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (c. 1563–1606), illegitimate son of Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire

Fictional

* Mountjoy (comics), a mutant in the

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin G ...

Universe * Mountjoy, the French herald in

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...

Henry V Henry V may refer to: People * Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026) * Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125) * Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161) * Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (–1227) * Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1216–1281 ...

Ships

* The ''Mountjoy'' was a merchant ship used to relieve the

Siege of Derry The siege of Derry in 1689 was the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland. The siege was preceded by an attempt against the town by Jacobite forces on 7 December 1688 that was foiled when 13 apprentices shut the gates. Thi ...

Ulster Ulster (; or ; or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional or historic provinces of Ireland, Irish provinces. It is made up of nine Counties of Ireland, counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom); t ...

in 1689. It was also the codename for the ship used in the 1914

Larne Gun Running The Larne gun-running was a major gun smuggling operation organised in April 1914 in Ireland by Major Frederick H. Crawford and Captain Wilfrid Spender for the Ulster Unionist Council to equip the Ulster Volunteers, Ulster Volunteer Force. The op ...