Mountjoy prison lands to be dug up to find remains of up to 33 prisoners
Harry Gleeson: A search for the remains of the country’s only person to be given a posthumous pardon is to recommence.
A section of land at Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison is to be dug up in a bid to find and identify the remains of up to 33 prisoners who were executed at the jail dating as far back as 1870.
In particular, the project aims to discover the remains of Henry (Harry) Gleeson, who was executed in Mountjoy Prison in 1941.
