Kilmainham

Kilmainham, a township of Dublin county and a western suburb of Dublin city. Pop. 5391. Here is the Royal Hospital for the reception of wounded and pensioned soldiers. It was originally founded by Charles II., is conducted on similar principles to the sister institution, Chelsea Hospital, and provides for 250 inmates. Near it is the government prison of Kilmainham. The phrase, 'the treaty of Kilmainham,' played a prominent rôle in party political warfare in 1882. The phrase pointed to an alleged arrangement between Mr Gladstone and Mr Parnell (then in Kilmainham gaol), whereby the latter promised to use his influence to prevent agrarian crime in Ireland on condition that a legislative measure affecting the Land Act of 1881 was introduced into parliament.