Image: Frongoch
This week I attended a fantastic talk at the Liverpool Irish Centre about Frongoch, the internment camp in North Wales where 1,800 revolutionaries from the 1916 rising were held for 7 months, including Michael Collins. It became known as the University of Revolution because the prisoners took classes while interned, but also made plans while all together for the war of independence that followed after their release. There is now a commemorative plaque at Frongoch, organised by the late Tony Birtill of Conradh na Gaeilge Learpholl, and local man Alwyn Jones who owns some of the land that once housed the camp has taken it upon himself to build a small museum with exhibitions about Frongoch use of a camp to imprison the Irish 1916 revolutionaries.
