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Kilmainham Gaol housed prisoners during the Irish War of Independence (1919–21) and many of the anti-treaty forces during the civil war period. Charles Stewart Parnell was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, along with most of his parliamentary colleagues, in 1881-82 when he signed the Kilmainham Treaty with William Gladstone. [22]
Executions sanctioned by the Provisional Government, later the Free State Executive Council, during the Civil War. [67] Date Name Age Location County Notes 17 November 1922: James Fisher: 18: Kilmainham Gaol: Dublin: All members of the IRA's Dublin Brigade from The Liberties, all four were executed for possession of revolvers. [68] Peter ...
The signatories of the Proclamation (with the exception of James Connolly) and other leaders were also interned, court-martialed and sentenced to death in the barracks before they were sent to Kilmainham Gaol for execution." [2] The Prime Minister H. H. Asquith visited on 12 May 1916, after which no further executions of prisoners took place. [5]
Foley was arrested on the day Tom Clarke was executed and sent to Kilmainham gaol, after processing in Ship street barracks and then Richmond Barracks, with many other women. The women spent several months in Mountjoy Prison. Foley was sent to HM Prison Lewes with four other women.
The protest was called off on 23 November 1923 by leadership in the prisons/camps – Thomas Derrig in Kilmainham Gaol, Michael Kilroy, Frank Gallagher and Peadar O'Donnell in Mountjoy. [39] On that date there were still 176 men on hunger strike, some for 41 days and others for 34 days. [ 40 ]
A total of 3,430 men and 79 women were arrested. 187 were tried under a series of courts-martial, and 90 were sentenced to death. 14 of them including all seven signatories of the Proclamation and were executed by firing squad at Kilmainham Gaol between 3 and 12 May.
Transferred to Kilmainham Gaol, he was told on Sunday 7 May that he was to be shot the following morning. He wrote no fewer than ten letters during his time in prison. During this time in detention, he did not allow any visits from his family; writing to his sister, he said a visit "would grieve us both too much".