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Look at that arm twisted backwards

Julie Storry ?

The National Library of Ireland on The Commons should sell this as a postcard - to send to ex-friends with the message "Wish you were here ... "

Wikipedia article is very interesting - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmainham_Gaol Recent reverse view via Sam_Hunter -

This photo turns up in Kilmainham Memories where it is attributed to Robinson, Dublin. The book was published in 1896.

Sharon Corbet Very interesting Sharon, perhaps Mr. Mason "acquired" the shot from Messrs. Robinson?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons A couple more of the "Mason" Kilmainham photos seem to be also in the book, all attributed to Robinson. I've got the impression that at least some of the Mason Collection are not photos that he took himself, but ones that he collected and made into slides. One of his Trade Cards is at the Science Museum in London, where he advertises: "Cinematographs, Optical Lanterns and Slides for sale or hire"

Designed by John McCurdy, who also did this one:

What are the round things? [ed.] They were not evident in 1953 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046717 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046627 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046720

beachcomber australia Might they be heating vents? Ian Fleming wrote in 'Live and Let Die' of New York having a piped heating system with regular vents or gratings in the road.

I have a photo just like this too following my 2016 Dublin trip. I think the jail was also used as a set to film "in the name of the father"

Would the piles of "clothes" be more likely blankets?

Nice, thanks :)

Nice

From the NY Times: "Thomas Mott Osborne of Auburn, N.Y., retired manufacturer, world traveler, lecturer, writer, and prison reformer, has accepted the offer of John B. Riley, State Superintendent of Prisons, of the post of the Warden of Sing Sing Prison."

Not exactly a nice place to overnight, I would imagine !!

bior I was about to say sounds like someone worthy of a Wikipedia entry, but it looks like someone beat me to it... Thomas Mott Osborne (September 23, 1859 – October 20, 1926) was an American prison administrator, prison reformer, industrialist and New York State political reformer. He was also known as "Tom Brown," a name he gave himself when he spent a week in the Auburn Prison in New York state in 1913. In an assessment of Osborne's life, a New York Times book reviewer wrote: "His career as a penologist was short, but in the interval of the few years he served he succeeded in revolutionizing American prison reform, if not always in fact, then in awakening responsibility.... He was made of the spectacular stuff of martyrs, to many people perhaps ridiculous, but to those whose lives his theories most closely touched, inspiring and often godlike."