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Kilmainham Gaol (Irish: Príosún Chill Mhaighneann) is a former prison in Kilmainham, Dublin. It is now a museum run by the Office of Public Works, an agency of the ...
Being a member of this system requires abolition of the death penalty and humane prison conditions. The goal of the Europris system is to ensure cooperation between European prison systems which aims to improve the lives of prisoner and their families, growing public safety and security, and reducing the re-offending rate.
As the building is named Gaol not Jail, all the tourist brocheres call it that, and it was a gaol (called that and spelt that way) long before the Americanism Jail ever began to be used in Ireland or the UK, I've returned the page to the correct spelling. FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 23:24, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Their size varies from 3.91 m × 2.06 m to 3.43 m × 2.06 m. The prison was built with in-cell sanitation but this was removed in 1939 when it was deemed that 'prisoners were using too much water'. However, all cells in the main jail have in-cell sanitation following refurbishment in the period 2010 to 2015.
[1] [2] It tells the story of Grace Gifford's marriage to Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Jail, hours before his execution in 1916. [3] It was released as a single by Jim McCann and reached number 2 in the Irish charts, staying in the charts for 33 weeks from 1 April 1986. [4] [5] Jim McCann described it as: A good new song about an old subject. [1]
The Kilmainham Treaty was an informal agreement reached in May 1882 between Liberal British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone and the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell. Whilst in gaol, Parnell moved in April 1882 to make a deal with the government, negotiated through Captain William O'Shea MP.
Informers Corridor, Kilmainham Jail. Author: National Library of Ireland on The Commons: ... ISO speed rating: 50: Date and time of data generation: 05:04, 8 July 2008:
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