Take a Walk if you Dare
by Lexa Harpell
Title
Take a Walk if you Dare
Artist
Lexa Harpell
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
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Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland by Lexa Harpell.
Filled with history on many levels - the dark second floor of Kilmainham Gaol still retains the names of the leaders of the Easter Rising from 1916 above the doorways on this level.
Preserved NOT sanitised!
What I love about this gaol is that they have preserved as much of the original structures without 'polishing it up' and becomming sanitsed. You still 'feel' the essence of this prision.
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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