Tag Archives: Kilmainham Gaol

Defiant Banner

Bodger at 4:23 pm May 25, 2022

Minister for the Office of Public Works, Patrick O’Donovan (left) with Brian Crowley, Curator of Collections, Kilmainham Gaol Museum inspect the ‘Banner of the Patriots’ carried into Portobello Barracks in 1922 (top)

This afternoon.

Inchicore Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.

Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works, Patrick O’Donovan visited Kilmainham Gaol Museum to view the `Banner of the Patriots’ as it went on public display in the Museum for the first time.

The exhibition will also feature a number of objects and letters connected with the men whose names appear on the banner, carried by troops of the new National Army/Free state Army, as they marched into Portobello Barracks on May 17, 1922.

Exhibition honouring War of Independence dead opens in Dublin (RTE)

Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

You Were Only Supposed To Paint The Bloody Doors

Nick Kelly at 4:11 pm March 24, 2020

From top: Michael Caine (carrying parcel) in a scene from The Italian Job shot in Kilmainham Gaol; Kilmainham today.

The Irish Film Institute writes:

All the prison scenes in the 1969 classic The Italian Job were actually filmed in Kilmainham Jail, in Dublin! The East Wing was painted yellow.

After the filming of In The Name Of The Father in 1992, it was repainted in cream & brown, which remains to this day.

Meanwhile…

U2 perform inside Kilmainham for single ‘A Celebration’ in 1982.

The band were at the time serving six months for a number of fashion crimes.

Gaolgeoir

Admin at 3:10 pm October 16, 2015

Laura McAtackney, Associate Professor in Sustainable Heritage Management (Archaeology) at Denmark’s Århus University in Newman House this afternoon

You may recall the free seminar – Revolting Women: Irish Feminist, Labour and Nationalist Movements 1913-1923 – is under way today in Newman House, Stephen’s Green, Dublin.

From the event…

#RevoltingWomen the walls of Kilmainham reveal how the women prisoners learned & practised Irish @LMcAtackney

— Katherine O’Donnell (@Ka_ODonnell) October 16, 2015

#revoltingwomen @LMcAtackney analysing 10,000 photographs of graffiti taken by her in Kilmainham Gaol

— Katherine O’Donnell (@Ka_ODonnell) October 16, 2015

@LMcAtackney reveals A lot of anti-Free State graffiti in Kilmainham Gaol #revoltingwomen — Katherine O’Donnell (@Ka_ODonnell) October 16, 2015

#revoltingwomen @LMcAtackney found over 100 portraits etched into Kilmainham Gaol walls. What is the intent motivating the trace?

— Katherine O’Donnell (@Ka_ODonnell) October 16, 2015

#RevoltingWomen @LMcAtackney telling us that much of the Kilmainham graffiti was covered over/removed — Claire McGettrick (@cmcgettrick) October 16, 2015

#RevoltingWomen @LMcAtackney – flash on camera revealed a drawing not viewable via naked eye, v similar to Markievicz drawing

— Claire McGettrick (@cmcgettrick) October 16, 2015