The outbreak of the First World War a century ago meant there was a need to establish camps to house captured German prisoners of war. One of the first such camps to be set up was at Frongoch, a ...
A journal and autograph book that provides a unique insight into life and conditions at Frongoch prisoner of war camp has been acquired at auction by Clare Museum. It’s estimated that 1,800 Irish ...
It is a Welsh field that will forever be known as 'Croke Park'. The former internment camp of Frongoch was once home to 1,800 Irishmen, among them Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, who were ...
A ceremony has been held to remember 1,800 Irish men interned in two camps in Gwynedd after the 1916 Easter Rising. They were held at Frongoch, near Bala, after an uprising of Irish republicans in ...
Dublin, 1 November 1916 - Liam Grogan, an Assistant Curator at the National Museum, has just been released from Frongoch and has given an account of the food and daily regime in the prison camp. He ...
TO North Wales now, and the fascinating story of the Frongoch internment camp, near Bala. Little has been written about the connection between Wales and Ireland, but that is exactly what the ...
Peter O’Connor Tour Lead NWHS, Gerard Fleming Chairman of NWHS, Alwyn Jones Fron-goch Museum, Cathaoirleach Cllr. Pip Breen and Hazel Percival of Wexford Library Service. The Wexford commemorative ...
The plaque has been placed outside the meadow where Irish inmates played football matches A plaque has been unveiled to commemorate a village's close links with Gaelic football. Frongoch, in Gwynedd, ...