The Glencree teams bring individuals and groups impacted by conflict together and help them find pathways to reconciliation and sustained peace through the humanising power of facilitated dialogue, relationship-building, public discourse and shared learning.

The Armoury Café is open on the site from Wednesday to Sunday from 9.30am to 5.30pm for light refreshments and is a popular destination for visitors, hikers and cyclists.

The British government responded by passing the Irish Reformatory Schools Act in 1858, extending to Ireland the system that prevailed in England.

Lynch also assembled a 50-strong brass, fife and drum band and choir that played for the local community and at competitions around the country.

Operation Shamrock, 1945 to 1950 In the aftermath of World War 2 until 1950, Glencree became a temporary refuge for children who were evacuated from war-torn Germany, Poland and Austria by the Irish Red Cross.

It is thought that close to one thousand children, aged from five to fifteen, travelled overland through mainland Europe and arrived by mail boat into Dun Laoghaire before continuing their journey by road to Glencree.

With health restored, they travelled onward again into the care of foster families throughout Ireland who had responded to newspaper advertisements placed by the Irish Red Cross.

According to the Committee of the International Red Cross in Geneva, “The Irish people raised a sum of twelve million pounds for the victims of the second World War which is equivalent to £4 per head of the entire population of the country.

Just five months old when her father was murdered, Una dedicated her life to building relationships of trust between both traditions on this island.