Go to Dublin… Behave like tourist!

I just booked a one-way ticket to Dublin, Ireland for July 12, 2011. YEAH.

Next Stop: Dublin, Ireland

June has been SO GOOD to me!  London, Copenhagen and Dublin all in one month?! For reals.  Before this, I hadn’t been overseas since last October.  I couldn’t be happier =)

Myself marching for OUThouse at Dublin Pride.

Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland (by Michelle in Ireland)

Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland

Kilmainham Gaol (Irish: Príosún Chill Mhaighneann) is a former prison, located in Inchicore in Dublin, which is now a museum. It has been run since the mid-1980’s by the Office of Public Works (O.P.W.), an Irish Government agency.

Kilmainham Gaol has played an important part in Irish history, as many leaders of Irish rebellions were imprisoned and some executed in the jail. The jail has also been used as a set for several films. Including “In The Name Of The Father”

When it was first built in 1796, Kilmainham Gaol was called the ‘New Gaol’ to distinguish it from the old jail it was intended to replace - a noisome dungeon, just a few hundred metres from the present site. It was officially called the County of Dublin Gaol, and was originally run by the Grand Jury for County Dublin. Over the 140 years it served as a prison, its cells held many of the most famous people involved in the campaign for Irish independence. The leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were held and executed here.

Children were sometimes arrested for petty theft (also the case in UK), the youngest said to be a seven year-old boy[citation needed], while many of the adult prisoners were deported to Australia.

There was no segregation of prisoners; men women and children were incarcerated up to 9 in each cell, with only a single candle for light and heat, most of their time was spent in the cold and the dark.

Kilmainham Gaol was abandoned as a jail in 1924, by the government of the new Irish Free State. Following lengthy restoration, it now houses a museum on the history of Irish nationalism and offers guided tours of the building.

i got this info off wikipedia…god bless wikipedia

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Go to Dublin… Behave like tourist!