Kilmainham Gaol -- a Powerful Symbol

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Kilmainham Gaol -- a Powerful Symbol

But on this, my second visit to Kilmainham, my imagination was more occupied with another story from the annals of the prison -- the significance of which I was not aware when I first arrived seven years ago: the fate of Robert Emmet.

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150 Years ago, Fenians murdered Ireland's Gift to Canada.

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150 Years ago, Fenians murdered Ireland's Gift to Canada.

While in Ireland, I sometimes feel I'm on a mission to explain to the Irish the enormous impact of an Irishman his home country has forgotten.  No one here has heard of Thomas D'arcy McGee, Canada's most eloquent Father of Confederation, and Ireland's gift to Canada.

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