An intriguing tale of a long-ago Dublin debtor's prison... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to The Four Courts Marshalsea and the Battle of the Ball Court, by Brian Crowley above.
Tucked in just off Bridgefoot Street in Dublin's Liberties, a battered old green street sign high on a stone wall bears the name 'Marshalsea Lane’, a street that no longer exists. It is also the only indication that these walls are the last remnants of the Four Courts Marshalsea, Ireland’s principal debtors’ prison...
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