Chris Nicholls
The site of the Garden is where the Irish Volunteers were founded in 1913, and where several leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were held overnight before being taken to Kilmainham Jail and executed. The Garden was opened in 1966 by the president Eamon De Valera on the fiftieth anniversary of the Rising, in which he had been a commander. The Garden was designed by Dáithí Hanly. Its focal point is a statue of the Children of Lir symbolising rebirth and resurrection, which was added in 1971.
Touching the Past
Garden of Rememberance, Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland
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