Wicklow Gaol Enter through the Gates of Hell
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Wicklow Gaol is a place of past history and horrors. It was a brutal, nasty place. Today it that clearly serves to show man's inhumanity to his fellow man, woman and child. Those held within it's walls were real people, caught up in a dreadful world of suffering, torment and madness. No one however bad, ever deserved to be incarcerated in this way. When you walked through those entrance 'gates of hell', there was little in the way of compassion, love, or hope. There was plenty of barbarity. I did not enjoy our visit but I needed to see this for myself. My hope is that our society never descends to having such an accepted, institutionalized, house of horrors, ever again.
Wicklow Gaol is a former prison, now a museum, located in the town of Wicklow,
There has been a prison on the site since 1702. Prisoners were held at Wicklow Gaol during the 1798 Rebellion and the Great Famine, as well as many held prior to penal transportation to the colonies, particularly to Australia.
The prison was closed down by 1900 but reopened to hold republican prisoners during the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War; the last prisoners left in 1924.
In 1995 renovations began, and it reopened as a museum in 1998, claiming to be one of the world's most haunted buildings, due to the long history of suffering associated with it.
Hello Tom . Yes these were terrible places as you said so many people inside for no real reason back then you were taken and locked up for almost nothing , now a days you can do anything you want and get away with it how the times have changed. Thanks Tom that was very interesting grim but a great look into the past.
Yes shaun. You are spot on with your comment. The pendulum has swung completely the other way and now all the help and time is lavished upon the poor criminal and the justice system is utterly soft as regards fitting punishment. This drives me nuts. I could easily go on a rant!
@@TomMcClean I hear Tom we can't say a word without someone being offended .
Here we can't even defend our homes and families. We're required by law, to only use 'reasonable force'! Who thinks of only offering reasonable force, when a burglar thug is attacking your home, family or property? Yet here you will be up on a charge of murder if the assailant ends up dead!! Our law is an ass. Especially when you ring for the police and nobody turns for at least 20-30 minutes! Nuts!
Oh Boy what a place this is Tom, they often refer to the entrance of Auschwitz as the gates of he'll and this place ranks right along side.
Difficult place to go round Tom but in think it's important that we make an effort to do so, it's a lesson on what we human's are capable of doing to other's, SO,SO SAD.
Yes I was thinking exactly the same thing as I was walking abut the place Chris. This was accepted back then in a so called civilized society. I believe indeed that we are entirely capable of going back to that! It reminded me of other horrible acts at places I have been to eg the Colosseum and the spot in Paris where Madame Guillotine held sway. We visited both and I had the same kind of bad feeling. I don't know if I could cope with Auschwitz.
@@TomMcCleanI have been to Auschwitz it's a real eye opener ....
Hi Christine. I have some knowledge of what happened in Germany in these horror places. I don't really want to go and face the reality in front of me.
For the same reason I don't want to know exactly what Hamas soldiers recently did to innocent men and especially women and children they murdered. Also I don't watch the news, to find out what the Israeli bombers are doing by way of retaliation to innocent, wee families, huddled in the remnants of flattened buildings. It is all too horrible for my mind to take in and it makes me feel miserable.
I don't think mankind has learnt anything from all the dreadful atrocities the world has witnessed here and abroad over the decades. Mankind, even educated mankind, is capable of the most heinous of crimes against fellow human beings even today!
@@TomMcClean I just felt I had to go to show my respects to all those that suffered. My dad was a soldier as was my grandad and military ancestors, I feel blessed I didn't live through it but my family did , and my granddaughter was learning about it at school at the time so she wanted to go , plus my daughter, 3 generations visited and yes it was heartbreaking but we were glad we went .
Hi again Christine. I applaud you and your family going. My daughter and her boyfriend went too. I just couldn't go. I knew it would annoy me too much.