Firing squads' gunshots still echo on Kilmainham Gaol tour

It has featured in several movies and TV series, including The Italian Job, In The Name of Our Father and Liam Neeson's Michael Collins.

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What catches my eye is a cell with the plaque above it saying 'Mrs Joseph Plunkett 1923, nee Grace Gifford'.

At the beginning of the tour, we sat in The Chapel, where the couple married just hours before Plunkett was executed on May 3, 1916.

Her wedding ring, which she bought from a jeweller on Grafton Street, now sits in the jail's museum which visitors can enjoy at the end of their tour.

Tickets are not easy to come by. They are released every 28 days and are snapped up.

Visitor Services Manager Ciara Scott says a limited number of slots are available online every day at 9.15am. The morning I visited, 250 were purchased in less than a minute.