What is Kilmainham Gaol?
[[File:Dublin-Kilmainham-Main-Entrance-1.jpg|thumb|right|The main entrance to the jail.]] The '''Kilmainham Gaol''' was a prison in [[Ireland]].<ref name=Museum>{{cite web|url=http://kilmainhamgaolmuseum.ie/|publisher=Office of Public Works|title=Kilmainham Gaol Museum|access-date=February 15, 2021}}</ref> The Kilmainham Gaol opened in 1796. It was a [[county jail]] for the city of [[Dublin]]. It stopped being a jail in 1924.<ref name=Museum /> Today, Irish people think of Kilmainham Gaol as related to nationalism because many rebels and nationalists were prisoners in that jail. Ordinary criminals were also prisoners in the jail. Some of the people held in Kilmainham Gaol were later [[Australia#Settlement|transported to Australia]], meaning they were forced to move to Australia. ==References== {{reflist}} {{europe-stub}} [[Category:Buildings and structures in Ireland]] [[Category:Prisons in Europe]]