GALWAY’S Cllr Michael Connolly unveiled this plaque in 2016 in memory of the Galway prisoners held in Fron-goch camp in Wales after the 1916 Rising. Wales still remembers Collins and 1916 rebelsVisit to Fron-goch reveals strong Galway connectionsMICHAEL Collins, plus 1,800 other Irish prisoners, many from Galway, are still remembered on plaques in a simple wooden shed and in a field named ‘Croke Park’ in Fron-goch in Wales, where they were interned in 1916. In the searing August sun (31 degrees) in the Welsh valley, Fron-goch looks idyllic, but to say it’s remote is almost an understatement. Beautiful looking, yes, at this time of year, but it was a miserable muddy mess when the Irish prisoners were crammed into two camps there in 1916. It was good to see the plaque that Galway Co Council Mayor in 2016, Cllr.

Source: The Herald September 07, 2022 06:24 UTC