The Prisoners’ Lens shows theatrical staged scenes which remind us that the events of 1916 were inspired by playwrights and ...

DUBLIN — It is not often that a prison is a must-see tourist attraction. Welcome to Dublin, where the Kilmainham Gaol is a national treasure. It has been called an Irish Bastille. The aging prison, ...

The autograph book is one of the most requested items at Kilmainham Jail in Dublin. A collection of autograph books owned by prisoners during the 1916 Easter Rising was published online in 2017. The ...

TO COMMEMORATE the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising, Kilmainham Gaol, which had been in a state of ruin for years, was put into order and was opened as a sort of national shrine. In November, ...

Maybe you can’t get to Ireland for Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. But let me take you now to Dublin’s most gorgeous library, its grimmest address and a country ruin where, 16 centuries ago ...

One hundred and three years ago Richard Twohig wrote his last ever letter from inside the walls of Kilmainham Gaol. It read: “I am in the best of spirits. Long live Ireland. God bless you, Mother, and ...

Chicago mobster Al Capone is arguably one of the most notorious inmates with Irish ties. The former criminal wed Mae Coughlin ...

This article is part of our “Street To Street” series, where we ask prominent New Yorkers to share their recommendations for what to see and do in major cities around the world. When Sean Muldoon and ...

Together, we entered the tall-windowed room on the second floor of the Irish Writers’ Centre. We, the participants of the Dublin Summer Writers’ Workshop, were there to attend a poetry reading. There ...

THE Irish Life Dublin Marathon is set to take place this weekend with thousands expected to hit the streets. As a result, a ...