For three decades Thomas Kent has kept locked away grim memories of “The Rock,” especially the secrets he dared tell no one: About three fellow convicts who vanished without a trace.

There were other casualties, too. David Kent sustained injuries that necessitated treatment in Fermoy military hospital and he, alongside Thomas, were subsequently court-martialled and sentenced ...

Fourteen of them were executed in Kilmainham Gaol. A fifteenth, Thomas Kent, was executed in Cork and buried in the grounds of Cork Prison. Here Mark Duncan, Director of Century Ireland ...