Dublin Castle
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Dublin Castle is a major Irish government complex, conference centre, and tourist attraction. It is located off Dame Street in central Dublin.
The Dubhlinn Gardens, which were completed in 1680, are located adjacent to Dublin Castle.
Dublin Castle, seen from the park to the south, outside the walls
The Record Tower, the sole surviving tower of the medieval castle dating from c. 1228. To its left is the Chapel Royal.
A carved head of Saint Patrick on the Chapel Royal
Bloody Sunday (1920)
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Bloody Sunday was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. More than 30 people were killed or fatally wounded.
Dublin Castle
…the small garrison arrived. During the Anglo-Irish War the Castle was the nerve centre of the British effort against Irish separatism. On the night of Bloody Sunday in 1920, three Irish Republican Army members Dick McKee, Conor Clune and Peadar Clancy, were tortured and killed there. When the Irish Free State came…
A photo purportedly of the Cairo Gang, but possibly the Igoe Gang, RIC officers who were brought to Dublin to identify and target IRA men who had moved to the capital from their respective counties.
British soldiers and relatives of the victims outside Jervis Street Hospital during the military inquiry into the Croke Park massacre
Michael Collins in 1919
A plaque in memory of the three volunteers at Dublin Castle