Shandon Bells
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| "look! I'm in my natural environment!" she said as she sat down at the kiddie-table"... Oh Michelle :) |
Buttercup Cafe
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| bucket-o-chips. om nom nom |
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| Chips, a milkshake and ketchup! I felt so American again! lol |
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| river past the skate-park |
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| a pretty picture of the park, and you can see the shadows of the four of us |
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| Yes, it is Jan. here, but there are flowers everywhere! |
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| hurling match at the Mardyke |
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| I really want to take a picture of it because of the "Aurora" sign, and in doing so I fell off the sidewalk and bloodied by knee. Good job Kyra... |
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Cork City Gaol
(read: 'Cork City Jail' for you Americans)
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| I don't blame her for not wanting to go...for awhile this was an all-women's jail. I would get another picture of this later. |
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| The Governor's Office was the 'holy of holies' in the gaol! the gov. himself sits engrossed over his papers. his name is John Barry Murphy. He governed here 1856-1873m was the first Roman Catholic appointed the office. At this time, the British policy had changed to allow Irish Catholics to be appointed to civil posts of responsibility. |
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| and some fun photos with this charming gentleman later as well :) |
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| Prisoner--Thomas Raile: convicted of stealing books--serving his time in solitary confinement--turned to religion for guidance. |
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| Prisoner: Mary-Ann Twohig and baby--just 16 years old and heavily pregnant. Mary stole a cloth cap and some kitchen utensils intending to pawn them and get some money. because of her late stage of preg. she was sentenced to only 2 months imprisonment and no hard labor. she gave birth in the gaol hospital and they were returned to the cell 2 days later. |
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| in the 1920s, Republican prisoners were put in here, often crammed 5 to a cell and infested with rats and vermin... |
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| prisoners were made to walk in single file around the designated circle so that there would be no talking between them. this rule derived from a penal philosophy known as the 'separate system' adopted enthusiastically throughout Europe and America during the 19th century. main idea was that prisoners would behave like Trappist monks who had taken a vow of silence--prisoners were kept separate from each other and in this eerie silence often went mad! |
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| originally, a warder, his wife and family, would all have lived in this one room |
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| samples of different punishments used in the gaol. solitary confinement, stone-breaking, the cork thread wheel, public executions, etc |
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| audio-visual room. stories of individual prisoners, etc |
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| Here is that lovely lady again... |
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| she scares me... |
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| you couldn't walk down this way, but you could see the other wind of cells |
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| she looks so pleased to be there, lol |
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| new inmates? |
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| Here we started having fun with pictures as we went through a second time. "Back to your cell little lady!" |
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| Francis in a cell |
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| Me in the cell |
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| Michelle's turn |
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| Now it is an all-girl's prison once again |
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| evil Thor |
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| Shenanigans! |
