U.S. News Insider Tip: While a prison may not be the most uplifting place to visit, a tour here really provides insight into the lives of the Irish people and the hardships they endured. – Rachael ...

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 ...

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, ...

DUBLIN — They call it the Irish Bastille. But unlike the legendary French prison, Kilmainham Gaol still looks pretty much the way it did when it opened for business in 1796. To get the full effect of ...

Ah, the day was glorious! We drank our coffee and loaded the car for the trip to Dublin to visit Kilmainham Gaol and Glasnevin Cemetery. We were lucky that we had seen no rain so far, but we always ...

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 ...

“Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present” is a new exhibition at Kilmainham Gaol Museum, co-curated by seven people who have come to Ireland as refugees. It showcases some of the precious ...

Guinness may be Dublin's signature drink, but you’ll find plenty of inventive cocktails and great food here, often accompanied by traditional Irish music. Kilmainham Gaol has housed some of Ireland’s ...

During the peak of lockdown in July 2020 Fontaines D.C. performed an electric live set in the iconic location of Kilmainham Gaol as part of Other Voices Courage 2020. That celebrated performance has ...