Saturday, September 18, 2010

hung upon the wall for the world to see

The new diggs:
I have my own sink:
the kitchen:
swanky couches!

I really like my new apartment, but it's pretty lonely now without any roommates and I miss my awesome roommates from Trinity Hall.  My favorite part about the apartment is the towel warmer in the bathroom.

Yesterday's excursion to Kilmainham Gaol

Inside Robert Emmet's cell.  The peep hole was used by an executioner-ish person to look at the condemned and gauge how long to make the rope.

This is the main/new/Victorian part designed so that the prisoners could get light and thus become better people.
It's also used as the set for a bunch of movies.
One cell had a ball of twine in it
This, I think, was the typical cell set up.  But maybe they had real beds/cots.
The yard where leaders of the 1916 Rising were executed
This is the place where they held public executions.  Apparently they happened in pairs.  They would hang from the two white bricks you can see above the balcony window.


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