Croke Park Stadium GAA Museum and Welcome to Croke Park (Pairc Chrócaigh Irish).
This week I visited Croke Park stadium with Jan (my roommate). Croke Park is the home of GAA, Gaelic Athletic Association, is the umbrella organization for all Gaelic sport, ie, Gaelic football (which is a mix between football and rugby), hurling ( which is a kind of cricket, football, rugby) and the latter is much less known is the Gaelic handball (which is a sort of Basque pelota but bare hands).
Croke Park is 82,300 seats, the fourth largest stadium in the world (yes, it does not bored ...). And to think that this point is reserved exclusively for Gaelic sports and the greatest concerts in Ireland. Well, okay, you tell me that the team has played in France two months ago (she has also done well to have). In fact the second stage of the city, the rugby and football, is being renovated, so exceptional, international matches are allowed at Croke Park during the time of the renovation of the other stage.
's go for a visit :
On the next picture, three of my roommates, Lubos, Dana and Jan: 
Changing rooms: 
The heating of the locker room, each dressing (5 total) has its own warm-up room, massage room and showers: 
Check on the lawn: 
The forum Next is actually just a plaza where one stands, it's called Hill16 (= "colline16). It's actually a mound that was created in 1916 Ammassa debris from the city after the battle that took place in 1916 between Irish and English (1916: date of the proclamation of the Republic of Ireland ):
Tribune called stand Cusack, Michael Cusack and the GAA's founding fathers: 
photos above were taken from called the Hogan Stand forums. It is named in memory of Michael Hogan, who was the captain of Tipperary and who was shot during a game: The story was passed November 20, 1920, it's actually retaliation for the assassination of 12 British intelligence officers a few days earlier. During a match between Tipperary and Dublin, paramilitaries raided English on the lawn and opened fire on the crowd and players. 14 people died that day, including Michael Hogan, and this event is now called the Bloody Sunday (not to be confused with the Bloody Sunday which took place in Northern Ireland in Derry in 1972).
Hogan In the forum, there are plenty of rooms, including this one which is a showroom.
The next room is the press room, or rather the parlor of the newsroom. 
I present The Sam Maguire Cup which is awarded to each team that wins all Gaelic football championships. On the base, each plate is a winner: 
Liam MacCarthy Cup Around, which, as you may imagine, is awarded annually to the winner of hurling championships, again, there is a massive base with plates of winners: 
A day in prison ... Swimming Welcome to Kilmainham Goal, the former prison in Dublin. The construction of the prison began in 1787 and was completed in 1796, the year she welcomed her first guests. For information, the prison closed its doors in 1924, just after the independence of Ireland (1916), and Civil War (1922). I say "permanently closed" because they had closed the first time in 1900, but were forced to reopen it, when all the Irish people want their independence.
Prison is quite famous for building itself, which is a classic of prison this time (like the old prison mitteuse we see in every American movie), moreover, many films were shot in prison. But this prison is famous for the people she has withdrawn, basically all Irish heroes have stayed, or were executed (Parnell Charles Stewart, James Connolly, Patrick Pearse, Eamon de Valera, and many others ), really all the politicians who opposed the English are past, that is, all politicians.
Well, a couple of details to note, the records of the prisons are still there, and available in the museum building (a very nice museum about all the wars between the English and Irish prison time). In these records, at the time of the great famine, the majority of new entrants were persons aged 15-20 who were taking sentences 2 to 4 months for stealing a loaf, or three apples ... At that time, prison was completely overcrowded.
After its closure, the prison has been neglected for 40 years. When a small group of volunteers undertook a restoration of the premises, they initially took 6 months to clear all debris and vegetation pushed her inside. Other
detail, much more recent one, when we visit the prison, when passing the entrance, there is a sign that tells us "free admission" ... I'll let you do the same thinking as me.
Well enough talk, here are some photos:
Enter the prison
Corridor typical prison 
One of the main corridors of the prison, much larger than the others.
This cell, about 3 times larger than the others, and with all the luxury that is was the cell of Charles Parnell, he had the right to a deluxe suite, because when he was imprisoned, he is already in the government ( in general, the others entered the government after their rebelion movement and residence in prison). 
Here we are now in the courtyard of the prison.
The next cell is the cell Plankett Joseph, and the drawing she made during her incarceration. 
The next picture is the wall of execution, not require me to explain what was happening here. 
On the next photo, I want to introduce the magic formula, and I advise you to keep in case one day, do you hang ... yes, this is the formula for the optimal length of the string depending on your body so that you would die instantly when you hang is always more pleasant than staying in agony for several minutes, like an old potato sacks and finally I think (I never tried). For info, is one Samuel Haughton who developed this formula, a student, then professor of Tronity College mechanical engineering department ... that's it, I found my future path! 
The last photo is one of 12 original copies of the proclamation of the Irish Republic that have been plastered around the streets of Dublin in 1916.
On the next picture, three of my roommates, Lubos, Dana and Jan: 
Changing rooms: 
The heating of the locker room, each dressing (5 total) has its own warm-up room, massage room and showers: 
Check on the lawn: 
The forum Next is actually just a plaza where one stands, it's called Hill16 (= "colline16). It's actually a mound that was created in 1916 Ammassa debris from the city after the battle that took place in 1916 between Irish and English (1916: date of the proclamation of the Republic of Ireland ): 
Tribune called stand Cusack, Michael Cusack and the GAA's founding fathers: 
photos above were taken from called the Hogan Stand forums. It is named in memory of Michael Hogan, who was the captain of Tipperary and who was shot during a game: The story was passed November 20, 1920, it's actually retaliation for the assassination of 12 British intelligence officers a few days earlier. During a match between Tipperary and Dublin, paramilitaries raided English on the lawn and opened fire on the crowd and players. 14 people died that day, including Michael Hogan, and this event is now called the Bloody Sunday (not to be confused with the Bloody Sunday which took place in Northern Ireland in Derry in 1972). 
Hogan In the forum, there are plenty of rooms, including this one which is a showroom. 
The next room is the press room, or rather the parlor of the newsroom. 
I present The Sam Maguire Cup which is awarded to each team that wins all Gaelic football championships. On the base, each plate is a winner: 
Liam MacCarthy Cup Around, which, as you may imagine, is awarded annually to the winner of hurling championships, again, there is a massive base with plates of winners: 
