A new exhibition marking a 100 years since Kilmainham Gaol's closure has just opened.

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A new exhibition marking a 100 years since Kilmainham Gaol's closure has just opened.

A new display at Kilmainham Gaol, Museum marks 100 years since the last prisoners were held in the Goal. The final leaders held between October of 1923 and January 1924 were some of the most influential leaders of the anti-treaty republican movement including including Ernie O’Malley, Austin Stack and Peadar O’Donnell. Future Taoiseach and President of Ireland Éamon de Valera was also held in the prison during this period Brian Crowley Collections Curator at Kilmainham Goal joined Tom Dunne in the studio to discuss the prison's new exhibition on the influential, last wave of prisons held in Kilmainham.

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A new exhibition marking a 100 years since Kilmainham Gaol's closure has just opened.