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unusual facts about Kilmainham Gaol


Sitting Target

Due to restrictions about filming in British prisons, the prisons sequences were filmed in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.


Irish National Invincibles

Joe Brady, Michael Fagan, Thomas Caffrey, Dan Curley and Tim Kelly were hanged by William Marwood in Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin between 14 May and 4 June 1883.

Sam Stephenson

He was the youngest of five sons born to Paddy Joe Stephenson, former Chief Librarian of Dublin and a founder of the Old Dublin Society, who had fought in the 1916 Rising and had helped to restore Kilmainham Gaol.


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