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00:00Comanum Jail is the symbol of the Irish Revolutionary Movement
00:06to fight for Irish freedom.
00:08Comanum was never meant to be an important place.
00:11It was just a jail.
00:13But it opened in 1796.
00:15Two years later, you have the 1798 rebellion
00:18and almost immediately Comanum Jail becomes associated with rebels.
00:221803, Robert Emmett is held there,
00:241848, Young Islanders, 1867, the Fenians,
00:27and then we come up to 1916.
00:30The events that happened in Easter week in Comanum in 1916
00:34and the following years, it is crucial.
00:37These events led to our state being founded.
00:41And what it showed to the world, to the Irish people,
00:46is that these men, these people,
00:50were willing to sacrifice their lives
00:52for the future of their country.
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