Cork Prison Tour

 Today, we took a trip to Cork in place of Kirchner's class to take a tour of the Cork City Prison. We started the day at 6:55am for the early bus to get to Cork, and oh my god, we were so tired. It took about an hour to get there, so we got there at around 8:15ish, which was another hour and forty-five before our actual tour began for the prison. Me and a couple of other people went over to a Starbucks and I got a very good almond croissant for breakfast before we started walking towards the prison. It was about a 30-minute trek through the city and up a hill to get there, but it was really nice to walk, even if it was raining. Getting to the prison, it looked very medieval from the outside, and getting to see the grounds and all of the cells was a really cool experience, coming from class and learning about the different types of prisons. The audio guide was actually very interesting, and it was also very cool to be able to go through all of the stations and hear about real experiences that prisoners had. At the end, I stopped into the video room and saw a couple more prisoners who left with a powerful message of passing along their names to keep them in history and unforgotten. It made me sad, but unfortunately, in a lot of cases, that's common. For this blog I thought of Yeat's The Rose Tree, because the baseline of the story is that the growth of Ireland came from sacrifice and bloodshed, and the more I traveled through the prison the more I realized how horrifically the prisoners were treated, and while it wasn't directly correlated to the poem it was still a stark reminder of the things that people go through. 



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