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Christopher
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Galway Jail
« on: Monday 28 April 08 16:11 UTC (UK) »
Geraldine Curtin scoured prison registers, parliamentary papers, newspapers, and personal accounts of prisoners when she was writing her book "The Women of Galway Jail = Female Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland"   http://tinyurl.com/66mugx
 

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MIGKY
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Re: Galway Jail
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 15:03 UTC (UK) »
Funny how things change Christopher, what was a jail is now a Cathedral . I think work started on building it in the mid 1950's and was finished in the 1960's

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I AM ONLY LOOKING FOR FAMILY MEMBERS AND INFORMATION FROM THE LAST 150 YEARS, BUT WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THEM I CAN FIND
Christopher
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Re: Galway Jail
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 15:10 UTC (UK) »
Hi MIGKY,

Thanks for sharing that lovely photo.

Christopher
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