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Most of us agree the idea has merit...
consensus on how and where to do it is harder to find The former Maze Prison We were, said our guide, standing in the very place where Irish history changed for ever. And just beside us last week in Dublin’s Kilmainham Gaol two wooden crosses marked the actual spots where leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916 were shot dead by firing squads. The guide told her visitors about the executions and their significance without a hint of rancour unlike my last guide eight years ago who delivered the same narrative with undeniable anger in her voice.
In the stonebreaker’s yard at Kilmainham the guides both pointed out where most of the 14 Rising leaders were shot and where an ill James Connolly was tied to a chair before he was executed..
