3-070-660 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Waiting to see the prisoners: a sketch at Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, 1881. 'The resolute and consistent action of her Majesty's Government in Ireland...the suppression of that treasonable and anti-social conspiracy styled "the Land League," has been attended hitherto with uninterrupted success...Messrs. Parnell, Dillon, Brennan, and Kettle were questioned...as to whether they had signed the No-Rent Manifesto in prison. They all refused to answer, and were sentenced...to seven days' deprivation of all visits and communications... It is understood that the whole staff of officials in the jail has been doubled....Our front-page Engraving shows the scene at the outer gate. Just above this gate is a sort of balcony, upon which the gibbet used formerly to be fixed up for the execution of a sentence of capital punishment...The rusty knocker on the iron gate summons the warder, who opens a little wicket of the massive oaken door...Ladies of Miss Anna Parnell's female Land League are frequently among them...when the turn comes for letting anybody in, the warder swings open the great wooden door, which is fortified with iron bands and has strong bolts to fasten it when closed; he bears a large key with which he then opens the outer gate of iron bars'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.