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Posing outside Beaumaris Castle with outgoing Anglesy MP Albert Owen, Peter Hain's chosen location for a photo shoot has given rise to speculation that there are plans afoot to re-open Beaumaris Gaol.
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After he was executed at the age of 25, his body was buried in an unmarked grave at a prison called the Old Melbourne Gaol.
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That's why the shot reminds me of the final verse of my favourite Oscar Wilde poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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Wilde also wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" 1897, a poem narrating an execution and deploring its barbarity.
Five Best: Still Free to Think: Prison Writing Martin E. Marty 2011
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His final writings include The Ballad of Reading Gaol and The Soul of Man under Socialism and two long letters to the News Chronicle about prison conditions.
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That skull was later recovered and put on display at the Old Melbourne Gaol – now a historic site – next to Kelly's "death mask", a plaster cast of his face made after his execution.
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Bookseller10 Gaol Street, Pwllheli, Gwynedd LL535RG, 01758613755The Bookseller has been serving locals in this small market town, and holidaymakers to the stonking scenery of the Llyn peninsula, for almost 30 years.
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He followed this with Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling and, for good measure, a fair portion of Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, by which time he held the attention of the nighthawks of Midtown.
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Posing outside Beaumaris Castle with outgoing Anglesy MP Albert Owen, Peter Hain's chosen location for a photo shoot has given rise to speculation that there are plans afoot to re-open Beaumaris Gaol.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Gaol has spoken up and proven that Conservatives actually have NOTHING substantive to say - only names to call. —
Obama Releases Names of Donors - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
duckbill commented on the word Gaol
A prison; a place of confinement. It is always pronounced and too often written jail, and sometimes goal.
April 19, 2011