Every Dark Hour is the first full-length history of Kilmainham Jail, one of Ireland's most visited tourist sites. Written by long-serving archivist, Niamh O'Sullivan, whose extensive knowledge of the jail and those who were imprisoned there composes a remarkable collage of human experience, the book is lavishly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs. Kilmainham Jail is perhaps the most important building in modern Irish history. A place of incarceration since its construction in the late eighteenth century, it housed a succession of petty criminals (including sheep rustlers) and, during the Famine, people who committed crimes with the sole aim of being imprisoned there: even the meager rations offered at the jail were better than what was available in other parts of the country. It was a powerful symbol of British rule on the island of Ireland; its residents over the years included the bold Robert Emmet, Charles Parnell, and of course, it was also the place where...

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