Members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army photographed inside the GPO.
This looks excellent and most worthy of support. The free tours detailed below are part of National Heritage Week and will be conducted by relatives of those involved in the Rising. We recently published the audio of a speech delivered by the great-grandson of James Connolly at the launch of a plaque to Sean Connolly, on the subject of 16 Moore Street and the campaign to save a key site of historical importance in Dublin. The campaign to save the site continues. The street itself is a treasure, and long may it remain as it is today.
Date & Times
28 August : Noon 3pm 6pm 9pm
29 August : Noon 3pm 6pm 9pm
Meeting point: GPO
Admission: free
Event Description: A walking tour through the GPO/ Moore Street battlefield of Easter Week 1916. Uniquely guided by descendants of those who took part
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Slightly off topic but still in a military vein:
This beautifully restored Martello Tower is also participating in Heritage Week. http://www.photopol.com/martello/no7.html It was restored by Niall O’Donoghue between 2004 and 2008 and is the only one of its kind in these islands to be restored to such a degree.
It is located on Killiney Hill Road, at the junction with Killiney Avenue, and is open to the public daily during this week.
Well worth a visit.
Thanks for the heads-up about the walking tours. Sounds like a great opportunity to learn more about Dublin history.
Good range of stuff on around the country, this week. I see even a historical talk on a certain soccer club- surprised you didn’t cover that.
Cheers for that Póló! Got to any Heritage Week events?
Marsh’s Library is only a euro entry this week, well worth a look.
@dfallon
Unfortunately not too free this week. Did check out Tower today, though, and Niall has the place well decked out for visitors.
He tells me he’s got a few hundred visitors since last Saturday, a lot of them locals.
It really is a stunning restoration of a much neglected feature of the built landscape.