Kilmainham Gaol
Originally uploaded by petergriffin_1892.
I went on another meetDublin outing with fellow flickr users today, this one being a trip to Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin.
This was the scene of the excecutions after the 1916 Easter Rising during which Padraig Pearse, James Connolly & the other leaders of the rising were executed by the British.
It's an important place in terms of Irish History, yet I found it odd to see an entry in the guestbook, written by someone Irish, which said 'less politics, more history'! But for me, it's impossible to have one without the other in a place like this...
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