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  • He along with the other leaders was stood up against the wall of the Stonebreakers’ Yard in Kilmainham Jail and shot by a British firing squad.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Obama Effect” Spurs Record Number of Nobel Peace Prize Nominations 2010

  • The Radicals won, and the change of policy was inaugurated by the so-called Kilmainham

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • Despite being deep in the bowels of Kilmainham Garda Station, the air tasted remarkably cool and fresh.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • No surprise, the lead item was the Priest arrest, and he leaned forward as he saw Brogan onscreen briefly, at the centre of a swirling crowd, with a tall guy he recognised from the press conference, Lonergan presumably, leading this other guy out, with a coat over his head, through the car park at Kilmainham Garda Station.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • The siege of Rouen lasted from July 1418 to January 1419, and the presence of the Irish soldiers is well attested, as is the role of Thomas Butler, the Prior of Kilmainham; though British and Irish estimates of the troop strength under his command are more like 500-700, a French source describes "eight thousand Irish savages" as being part of the English forces.

    On being a fan, and the first half of Season Four nwhyte 2008

  • Sir Maurice Whyte, who served in France under Henry IV and Henry V where at the siege of Rouen, with the Prior of Kilmainham, he led 2,000 Irish, and later made Governor of Montaire under Henry VI.

    On being a fan, and the first half of Season Four nwhyte 2008

  • Today, 3rd May 2008, is the 92nd anniversary of Pearse's execution by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail.

    Patrick Pearse - A Rare Photograph? Dr. Eugene F.M. O'Loughlin 2008

  • Until the over-reaction of the authorities - 4,000 people arrested and interned, 200 condemned to death; hardly anyone knowing who had been executed until the death notices were posted on the door of Kilmainham Gaol - turns the anger and resentment in a new direction.

    between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2006

  • Two days later he made the journey from Dublin Castle to the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham across the city.

    The Master Colm Tóibín 2004

  • Pearse was shot after court-martial at Kilmainham on 3 May 1916.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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