Sentence examples for gaol on from inspiring English sources

In 1897, Oscar Wilde wrote the philosophical essay "De Profundis" while locked up in Reading Gaol on charges of "unnatural acts".

When Tex Perkins opened his Far from Folsom show at Parramatta Gaol on Friday night with a suitably gravelling "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" and a ripping version of Folsom Prison Blues, audiences knew they were in for a rock'n'roll treat.

The nascent legend of Bobby Sands is difficult to square, even with hindsight with the man I met in Belfast's Maze gaol on March 3, the third day of his hunger strike.

A negro was imprisoned in the gaol on a charge of murdering a policeman who was endeavouring to arrest him, and on Sunday a mob set out to break into the gaol and lynch the negro".

A crowd estimated at 8,000 10,000 gathered outside the walls of Salford Gaol on the evening of 22 November 1867 to witness the public execution of the three convicted men the following morning.

Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien were publicly hanged on a temporary structure built on the wall of Salford Gaol, on 23 November 1867, in front of a crowd of 8,000 10,000.

Narrative of Mr. John Thomson, one of the persons intended to be massacred with General Lingan and others, in the gaol of Baltimore, on Tuesday, the 28th of July last.

The stories of the family members who visited their loved ones in gaol and on whom prisoners depended so much to keep their sanity.

The last debtors in the New Gaol left on March 1 , 1832

Today: Kilmainhaim Gaol is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Ireland.

After his release, he lived in exile in France and wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, based on his experience of the execution of Charles Wooldridge, carried out in Reading Gaol whilst he was imprisoned there.