Notes from the May - June 2009
Tour of Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia and England

Dublin - May 25 The next morning, we took a shuttle from the port into Dublin for some sightseeing.

A really nasty prison of the 1700-1800s, that played a major role in Irish history in the early 1900s, is open to the public. The Gaol was last used in 1924.

The Easter Rising of 1916 brought about the imprisonment of many political activists seeking freedom from English rule. Patrick Pearse was held here.

The new section of the prison was used as a set in a number of movies

Women activists were held here too

In this yard, 12 political prisoners were executed in May 1916. Knowledge of these executions ignited the revolt that eventually freed Ireland.

Pearse and the other founding heroes of a free Ireland were executed one by one, standing where the cross is, by a British firing squad.

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