On our last full day in Ireland we have a full day planned in Dublin. We start with the Kilmainham Gaol Museum, the former central prison in Dublin which opened in 1796. Here we have to join a tour that leads us through the prison, it looks quite daunting and we certainly wouldn’t have wanted to be prisoners here during its heyday.
One of its claim to fame is that it housed Irish independence fighters from all the major events in Irish history. In fact the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916 were executed here in the yard, one of them the day after getting married in the jail chapel.
We continue our tour through the prison, wondering at the many ways the stairs are built and wonder if it is on purpose or not. And then our tour ends and we are on our way to a much happier attraction.
