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Ronan OConnell, CNN • Updated 20th January 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 Pictures Perth, Australia (CNN) — It all began with a letter sent from inside an Australian "tomb," a document so convincing that it prompted a US gang to sail some 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) to execute what could arguably be considered one of the most outrageous prison escapes in Australian history. The year was 1876. Using a series of codes and disguises, the bold group snuck into Western Australia to free six...

in Kildare From left: Garrett Doyle, Kildare Association of New York; Peter Carey, Chief Executive, Kildare County Council; Mayor of Kildare, Councillor Brendan Weld; Kevin O’Malley, Ambassador of the United States of America; Mike Flood, Kildare Association of New York; and Marian Higgins, County Librarian of Kildare attend the unveiling of the Naas statue last year. By Julia Brodsky, Editorial Assistant Last October, a statue of John Devoy was unveiled in Naas,...