![]() From 1788 until 1980 the interior of the market changed very little. The name 'The English Market' was thought up in the 19th Century to differentiate it from The Irish Market (currently the Bodega on Cornmarket Street). Cork City Gaol has a souvenir shop, tourist information, picnic area and a café. The self-guided tour of the gaol is available in 13 different languages. The tour takes visitors back in time, recreating the harsh realities of nineteenth century incarceration while exploring some of the underlying causes of contemporaneous crime. Unlike their predecessors, visitors today have the freedom to roam the gaol's catacombs for the price of €8 (concessions available). ![]() Original scrawlings on the walls of the cells added with eerily realistic wax figures of both guards and prisoners give the whole experience a very voyeuristic feel. Today the gaol has been redesigned as a visitor centre, refurbishing the cells as they would have been hundreds of years ago. In the 20th century, its most famous prisoners included Fenians James Mountaine and Brian Dillion and revolutionary nationalist Countess Markievicz. Later in the same century, the gaol's guests included Young Irelanders Derry Lane, Terence Bellew McManus, Ralph and Isaac Varian. ![]() During the early 1800s, the gaol's walls housed many temporary prisoners before they were taken to convict ships bound for Australia. ![]() In its heyday of the 19th and early 20th Centauries, Cork City Gaol was home to some of Ireland's most notorious prisoners. ![]()
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