The Cork City Gaol Author:John L. O'Sullivan This book tells the stories of how famous prisoners and some not so famous inmates, ate, slept, worked, and died in the gaol [jail] of City Cork, Ireland, from the day the first prisoners were incarcerated there in 1824 to the closing down of the gaol in 1923. The historic periods when the gaol housed both men and women prisoners are recalled, t... more »ogether with a presentation of prison records, and real life stories of selected prisoners,« less