The All-Ireland Football match behind barbed wire, Frongoch Internment Camp, June 1916
The All-Ireland Football match behind barbed wire, Frongoch Internment Camp, June 1916
It is over a century after a unique All-Ireland football final between Kerry and Louth was played among the men interned in the wake of the 1916 Rising in Frongoch in north Wales. Over 1,800 Irishmen were rounded up and detained without trial under the Defence of the Realm Act at the prisoner of war camp near the Welsh village of Bala, in the rolling hills of Snowdonia from June 1916 onwards. In…
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