TO COMMEMORATE the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising, Kilmainham Gaol, which had been in a state of ruin for years, was put into order and was opened as a sort of national shrine. In November, ...

The Board of Works hand the keys of Kilmainham Gaol over to a restoration committee. In 1924 Kilmainham Gaol closed its doors, and over the decades the condition of the site and prison buildings have ...

Kilmainham Gaol and museum is handed over to the state. Avril Doyle TD addresses attendees at the ceremony in Kilmainham. Interview with Commandant Vinnie Byrne, old Irish Republican Army (IRA), on ...

Kilmainham Gaol Museum has shared a surprising link between Oscar-winning Jessie Buckley and the Easter Rising. Jessie became the first Irish woman ever to win Best Actress at the Oscars on Sunday, ...

Together, we entered the tall-windowed room on the second floor of the Irish Writers’ Centre. We, the participants of the Dublin Summer Writers’ Workshop, were there to attend a poetry reading. There ...

Seeing the world as a study abroad student is completely different from any other travel experience. You’re not only on your own to organize trips, but you end up traveling to an obscene number of ...

AN iconic historical Dublin landmark has been voted one of the top tourist attractions in the world by Tripadvisor. Kilmainham Gaol, a former prison in Dublin, is now a museum run by the Office of ...

THE former Dublin jailhouse in which the leaders of the Easter Rising were imprisoned and executed has been named among the top tourist attractions in the world. Kilmainham Gaol, now a popular museum ...

DUBLIN — It is not often that a prison is a must-see tourist attraction. Welcome to Dublin, where the Kilmainham Gaol is a national treasure. It has been called an Irish Bastille. The aging prison, ...

One hundred and three years ago Richard Twohig wrote his last ever letter from inside the walls of Kilmainham Gaol. It read: “I am in the best of spirits. Long live Ireland. God bless you, Mother, and ...

An appeal begins this morning against plans to build offices and a technology park opposite historic Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin. Objectors to the development, planned by Charmside Ltd, a subsidiary of ...