Kilmainham Gaol

[dudley11]

My wife and I visited Ireland this past May (2010). While in Dublin we visited here. My wife's maiden name is Connolly. Growing up she was told she was related to James Connolly, but we are not exactly sure how.

I understand there is a movie about James Connolly and the Easter Uprising in the works, due to start filming April 2011. Gary Oldman is rumored to play James Connolly and much will be filmed in Killmainham Goal and the GPO (General Post Office, the site of the uprising).

[rigstula]

I visited Kilmainham gaol when I was in Dublin back in March. The place definitely made me feel uneasy and depressed. It's as if the very walls radiate all the suffering that took place there. The prison almost felt as if it was haunted.

However, it was a very memorable and worthwhile experience. Though I already knew the basics about the potato famine and the Easter rising, I left the place with a deeper understanding of how imperial Britain ruled Ireland with a total disregard for its people.

[transportguy100]

i visted this today and i said it was as unfair as the holocaust im from london i know its on a smaller scale but still

[navrats]

prison brill experience so sad ,yet happy to have been there.

[navrats]

been in kilmainham twice so sad,but good at the same time to be where our Irish heros were.

[connormac52]

Great video. Wonder what James Connolly would think of NAMA and our incompetent Fianna Fail Government and the behaviour of Gardai for Shell in Mayo?

[gkelly2009]

ireland is still un free

[roadend78]

god bless those brave men youll never walk alone from liverpool

[Oranmore123]

Kilmainham is such an interesting place....went on a school tour there last month....relly eerie!

God bless those brave men.

[grahamcoles1966]

grim looking place

[popfucker]

I was there in june! thrilling!

[PattiORorke]

They were freedom fighters and heroes. No amount of denial and justification can make it otherwise. I am proud to be an O'Rorke and would have it no other way. What a ghostly, holy place it must be. I hope to be able to see it before I die. God rest their souls.

[1916supermc]

TIOCFAIDH AR LA

[FPVsean]

tourist.... hahah no offence, teh tour of kilmainham was actually quite intrigueing, what happened there i allready knew about through history class...

[STHFGDBY]

I Live very near Emmet Road and I never get tired of this Amazing place. One satisfaction I get is that I deliver to the Prison and I get to see it a lot . It has a athmosphere that is unexplainable . The moment you walk through the front doors it has your attention . It looks and feels like it is still a fuctional prison rather than a museum ..

[THEBOUCLETTE]

sniiiiiiiiif

jy suis aller du 11 u 16 avril ce pays est le plus beau du monde

et cette prison a une histoire vraiment bouleversante

c sa ki fer son charme =)

IRELAND THE BEST <3

[MegaLeah13]

I recently visited Kilmainham prison on a trip to Dublin, and i left in tears,it made me feel almost ashamed to be british.

Ireland is the friendliest country i have ever been to.Unlike the germans the irish still remain pleasant towards us brits after so much history. Up the Celts!!!

[FPVsean]

good on you mate... i dont mind the scottish or the welsh... or even you english, its just your ogvernment is prone to stupid mistakes

[Marte1618]

You guys realise Connoly had to be brought from hospital to be exectuted? That is why there are two crosses in the Stonebreakers yard. All but one were executed at the end nearer the smaller door. Connolly was brought by ambulance, lashed to a chair and propped against the wall near the larger double door due to the gravity of his wounds, from which, I may add, he was dying anyway. God bless you James...and the other brave men and women who fouth that fight. We carry you in our hearts.

[majorMcpharter]

The voice of labour,the voice of justice.Workers of all lands unite.

[Milford06]

Marte not many ppl know that they carried in the gate on the strecher and could not have been arsed to bring him up to the top of the yard so strap him in the Chair and shot him

[Marte1618]

Tis truly a shame, that their stories are falling into shadow. They were men, with wives, children, families and love of their country. So much so, they willingly gave their lives. Most people probably don't remember that Thomas Clarke was stripped naked and marched through Dublin to the gaol either, or that Mick Collins served under Joe Plunkett during the rising.

Kilmainham is my first stop when I land in Ireland, and the last before I leave.

[FamousTina]

went here today for our history trip, can't believe I'd never been b4 and I only live a little bit away, it was amazing!

[seanmcguig]

rip rebels

[mcvicker666]

being irish is something special

[seanmcguig]

true hi

the reason they killed the rebels is because they were scared of the irish

[FPVsean]

isnt just?? were such a good country if you stand back.. where would america and australia be without us???

[macala17]

For me the highlight of my visit to Dublin was going to Kilmainham Gaol. Everyone visiting Dublin should come here............along with the Guinness Storehouse.

[blackrose325]

I get to live in Dublin, hurray for me!

[angieadmin]

got to hand it to you irish . you know your history . but i think you are in a better situation now than maybey 15 years ago

[McAroe]

I was there just 3 days ago, it was very good. I seen where James Connolly died ;-(

[josieboy26]

One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter,,

[rashers5]

The words of the song are historically inaccurate. "A great crowd had gathered outside of Kilmainham"? During a curfew? And anyway only the families and the prisoners spritual advisors were advised of the executions, and then only an hour or so beforehand.

James Connolly was never a prisoner in Kilmainham. He was held in Dublin Castle up until the British military brought him in an ambulance to just inside the gate of the Jail where they tied him to a chair and shot him.

[lyricalmalaria23]

ever notice how politically correct the guides are on those kilmainhaim tours? kinda kills the whole the rebellion story just so they don't tred on anyones toes

[RedCeltic]

I can understand why some would want to see the prison torn down, although I would be very much against it. It's quite a source of pain for many Irish people. In fact, pain and suffering bleed through it's very walls. You can become quite angry and bitter, just looking at those walls.

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[RedCeltic]

During the tour, the guide told me that they arrested so many for begging during the famine that they didn't have room for all of them and the corridor was overcrowded. There was a boy (5 yrs I think) who was arrested for stealing grass off an English Estate, and died in prison.

[cilmobhi]

i think what we are all for getting is the fact the people who died for irelands freedom in this prision has yet been made a joke of seeing they now want to destroy the prision and build over the top of it what another great example of the brittish trying to take what is rightfully my heritage and many others as an irish teenager

[deighan01]

just like the h blocks the english are hiding their shame of what they have done tearing them down so that the world cannot see. those cunts in the dail are only too happy to play along to an english game

[face1990]

How the hell would the british be to blame if Kilmainham Jail was built over?

[spudseamus]

Stand Tall!

[garmla]

the resting place of the great young kevin barry and many more heroes

[Cliodule]

Umm...no.

Kevin Barry was imprisoned and executed at Mountjoy Prison--not at Kilmainham Gaol. What's more, he no longer rests there--in 2001 he and most of the Forgotten Ten were disinterred and given a state funeral in Glasnevin Cemetery. Finally, while Kevin Barry may have died for the cause of Irish independence, that hardly made him 'great'. The Government went ahead with his execution, in part, because the British soldier that he helped kill was even younger than he was.

[Danny46]

evidence from the trial of barry shows he was arrmed with a .38 parrabellum the bullets taken from pvt marshall whitehead, the british soldier killed, where from a .45 callibre. the monks bakery raid was an open fire skirmish, i dont see how that justifys saying barry "helped" just because he was there dosent mean he helped. anyway it was a different time and age, society deemed things differently

[Cliodule]

Of course he helped: he took part in the ambush; under common law, that made him guilty of felony murder, whether he personally pulled the trigger or not. He wouldn't be found guilty today--felony murder was abolished by the Homicide Act of 1957. But as you say, it was a different time, and society saw things differently.

[Danny46]

I dont believe barry was a murderer. or an acomplise. in a previous ambush for arms and ammo in early 1920,barry led the raid, 20 british garicon where captured, once the raid was complete, all where released un harmed. hardly the actions of a murderer. the fact that law was abolished proves with no uncertainty that it was wrong and in-just. i accept your point but i wouldnt say he helped, not to the point that he can be called acomplice to murder and then be hung.. thats not justice.

[Cliodule]

Well, that all depends on your point of view. Like many people, you believe that the intentions of the killer are very important and that guilt or innocence depends on what was in the killer's mind when the victim's death occurred. Other people, in other places and times, have believed and still believe that the killer's intentions are not all that important: what's important is that somebody died as a result of their actions. That's the principle that underlay the doctrine of felony murder.

[Cliodule]

Let me put it this way. I think Kevin Barry were wrong to take up arms against the government, and I also think that the government was wrong to execute him. The Irish Revolutionary War was a tragic and unnecessary conflict caused by both side's unwillingness to compromise. As another Barry--Tom Barry--later admitted, Ireland could have achieved dominion status without firing a shot. Since dominion status was what they got in the end, then what was all the shooting for?

[Danny46]

as you pointed out alot depends on opinion. It's impossible to say rather or not Ireland would have achieved dominion status without firing a shot. After the 1916 rising i dont believe that was possible, up until the 1916 rising home rule was suspended as a result of world war one... constently being put on the shelf with no real sight of it being introduced. There are far too many ifs and buts on that issue..

[Danny46]

not only that but how long would it have been before dominion status was granted? i dont condone the actions of any terrorist organisation, but history does show that the treatment of irish citizens within the british empire was, well to be hones fucking awful. De Valera was even reffered to as "a spanish onion in an irish stew" in initial peace talks. neither side had the mentallity to sit and talk without the initial violence taking place.

[Marte1618]

Those executed fot the Rising were tossed unceremoniously into a quicklime pit behind the Bristish garrison. The British government had no intention of having yet other Irish martyr(s)as Jeremiah O'Donovan Rosa's death was still fresh in their minds, and his blood on their hands.

The fallen 14 were not interred in Glasnevin, as Rosa was, they remained where they were discarded, at Arbour Hill Cemetary. However, it now has a park-like setting and commemorations for each of those who lay there.