Kilmainham Gaol
Former prison where executed rebel leaders were held, its stone yard now a somber historic site.
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This guide to Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin centers on the third of May, 1916, when Grace Gifford stood in the prison's tiny Catholic chapel to marry Joseph Plunkett, one of the leaders of Dublin's failed Easter Rising, with no family allowed in and two soldiers standing as witnesses. Hours earlier, three of his fellow rebel leaders had already been shot by firing squad in the Stonebreaker's Yard nearby, and Grace had rushed out that same day to buy a ring once she learned her husband's execution had been set. Step into the Stonebreaker's Yard, where a plain stone cross marks the ground beneath your feet.
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