Frongoch Irish prisoner camp, Bala, North Wales. Birthplace of the IRA…
Erin the archaeologist visits Frongoch Prisoner of War camp, near Bala in Eryri / Snowdonia North Wales – known as ‘the University of Revolution, where the IRA was born, and where it’s been said the Irish War of Independence was actually won. In Wales…
Erin visits the old train station, where, following the 1916 Easter Risings, 1800 Irish prisoners arrived in North Wales to be held in a former German Prisoner of War Camp. Erin explains what the camp itself would have looked like, now fields and partially covered by the village’s primary school, and the awful conditions the prisoners faced. And how, without the camp, would the IRA have even been formed…
Credit to : Dr Erin Lloyd Jones
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