Gaol Hallway
by Lexa Harpell
Title
Gaol Hallway
Artist
Lexa Harpell
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. Preserved NOT sanitised!
Doors of the World Series by Lexa Harpell.
What I love about this gaol is that they have preserved as much of the original structures without 'polishing it up' and becoming sanitsed. You still 'feel' the essence of this prision and its occupants.
Dublin's Kilmanham Gaol has a long, brutal, horrid history.
Member of the Easter Uprising were imprisoned and executed here.
Public hangings were common at the front of the prison. Housing men, women and children - at times in the same cell which could hold up to five people. Not a pretty time.
Thousands of prisoners from this gaol alone were sent to Australia as 'free' labour to colonise the country.
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April 19th, 2016
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Comments (20)
Carol R Montoya
Outstanding capture and frightening,as well as important to remember our humanity to one another, especially the innocent.
Lexa Harpell
Awwww that is so kind of you Marnie!! :) :) I just shoot what excites me regardless of the subject. Loved this place and its history.