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The jail's potential function as a location of national memory was also undercut and complicated by the fact that the first four Republican prisoners executed by the Free State government during the Irish Civil War were shot in the prison yard. [7] The Irish Prison Board contemplated reopening it as a prison during the 1920s but all such plans ...
St. Patrick's Institution, North Circular Road, Dublin 7, was an Irish penal facility for 16- to 21-year-old males. It had a capacity of 217 beds and had an average inmate population of 221 in 2009. It was a closed, medium security prison.
Mountjoy Prison (Irish: Príosún Mhuinseo), founded as Mountjoy Gaol and nicknamed The Joy, is a medium security men's prison located in Phibsborough in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. [1] The current prison Governor is Ray Murtagh.
In 2009 there were 15,425 committals to prisons in Ireland, which is an increase of 13.8% on 2008 when the equivalent figure was 13,557. 12,339 individuals accounted for all the committals in 2009. 10,865 committals to prisons in 2009 followed sentencing.
Arbour Hill Prison with Church of the Sacred Heart in the distance. The prison is located on Arbour Hill at the rear of the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, Dublin 7. The area is also the site of the Arbour Hill Military Barracks. Bus Route(s): Nos. 37, 39, 70 from the city centre.
Plaque placed by the Irish Government on the graves of the Volunteers. The Forgotten Ten (Irish: An Deichniúr Dearmadta) [1] were ten members of the Irish Republican Army who were executed in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, by British forces following courts martial from 1920 to 1921 during the Irish War of Independence.
He was first incarcerated in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin where he sketched out his play the Quare Fellow, based on a fellow prisoner. [19] In June 1944 Behan was interned both with other IRA men and with Allied and German airmen at the Curragh Camp in County Kildare. He later related his experiences there in his memoir Confessions of an Irish Rebel.
During the 1870s, it became the practice to send major offenders to a convict prison in Dublin, and a number of county gaols were closed. This caused an overcrowding problem and a Royal Commission Report of 1877 recommended more prisons and even portable iron jails. Also, Australia was refusing to accept any more Irish convicts.