Irish Central

LGBT history of Dublin’s Kilmainham Gaol explored in free tours for Pride

Kilmainham Gaol's Collections Curator Brian Crowley is hosting the free tours as part of this month's Pride events. Kilmainham Gaol is hosting free tours that explore the prison's LGBT history as part ...
The Atlantic

Kilmainham Gaol: Monument to the Rising

TO COMMEMORATE the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising, Kilmainham Gaol, which had been in a state of ruin for years, was put into order and was opened as a sort of national shrine. In November, ...
Boston Herald

Gelzinis: Ghosts of martyrs roam Kilmainham

DUBLIN — They call it the Irish Bastille. But unlike the legendary French prison, Kilmainham Gaol still looks pretty much the way it did when it opened for business in 1796. To get the full effect of ...
Los Angeles Times

Grim Kilmainham Gaol, a treasure of Irish independence

DUBLIN — It is not often that a prison is a must-see tourist attraction. Welcome to Dublin, where the Kilmainham Gaol is a national treasure. It has been called an Irish Bastille. The aging prison, ...
Irish Daily Mirror

'I went inside the prison where firing squad executed those willing to die for Irish freedom'

One hundred and three years ago Richard Twohig wrote his last ever letter from inside the walls of Kilmainham Gaol. It read: “I am in the best of spirits. Long live Ireland. God bless you, Mother, and ...