| Frongoch internment camp at Frongoch in Merionethshire, Wales was
a makeshift place of imprisonment during the First World War. Until
1916 it housed German prisoners of war in an abandoned distillery
and crude huts, but in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin,
Ireland, the German prisoners were moved and it was used as a place
of internment for approximately 1,800 Irish prisoners, among them
such notables as Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith. They were
accorded the status of prisoners of war. The camp became a fertile
seeding ground for the spreading of the revolutionary gospel, with
inspired organisers such as Michael Collins giving impromptu lessons
in guerrilla tactics. Later the camp became known as the "University
of Revolution" or sometimes "Sinn Féin University". The camp was
emptied in December 1916 |
