Fron Goch

1,800 found themselves deported to an internment camp at Frongoch in north Wales. The detention of so many young GAA members, many with little previous involvement in either the Volunteers or the IRB, brought them into contact with the emerging ...

1,800 found themselves deported to an internment camp at Frongoch in north Wales. The detention of so many young GAA members, many with little previous involvement in either the Volunteers or the IRB, brought them into contact with the emerging ...

An article from the Kerryman on July 29, 1916 [Picture: The Collins Press] Michael Collins, a former member of London GAA, helped to instigate a series of Gaelic football matches during his internment in Frongoch, along with Kerry's former All-Ireland ...

'My grandfather was arrested and taken to Frongoch, an internment camp in Wales. Frongoch became a university for the guerrilla war that came later. Just before Christmas 1916, my grandfather and many others were released. They arrived at the railway ...

Following short periods of time in Wakefield, Wormwood Scrubs, and other British prisons, James was eventually sent to Frongoch Internment Camp in North Wales, where around 1,800 Irishmen were incarcerated. About half of this number were released and ...

PEOPLE gathered at a village to commemorate one of the most important dates in Irish history. As hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Ireland on Monday to remember the 1916 Easter Rising, a smaller group met in Frongoch – the site ...