Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
TOP SIGHT
KILMAINHAM GAOL
If you have
any
interest in Irish history, especially the juicy bits about resistance to
British rule, you will be shaken and stirred by a visit to this infamous prison.
DON'T MISS...
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Prison Museum
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Stone Breakers' Yard
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Prison Cells
PRACTICALITIES
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MAP
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Inchicore Rd
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adult/child €6/2
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9.30am-6pm Apr-Sep, 9.30am-5.30pm Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm Sun Oct-Mar
It was the stage for many of the most tragic and heroic episodes in Ireland's recent past,
and the list of its inmates reads like a who's who of Irish nationalism. Solid and sombre, its
walls absorbed the barbarism of British occupation and recount it in whispers to visitors.
History
