Dublin Castle
Medieval fortress and former seat of British rule, its towers and state rooms surrendered to Irish hands in nineteen twenty-two.
This guide to Dublin Castle centers on the sixteenth of January, 1922, when Michael Collins strode into this yard, needled a waiting British official with a sharp remark about seven hundred years of English and British power, and walked toward the Privy Council Chamber. You'll hear where that line actually comes from, an IRA veteran's decades-later memory rather than a reporter's notebook, and what Collins himself admitted about the moment as it happened. The guide also reaches back to 1204, when King John ordered the fortress built on ground the Vikings once held. Picture the yard as it was for seven centuries before that morning changed it.
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