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The Garden of Remembrance (Vorlage:Lang-ga) is a memorial garden in Dublin dedicated to the memory of "all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom".[1] It is located in the northern fifth of the former Rotunda Gardens in Parnell Square (formerly Rutland Square), a Georgian square at the northern end of O'Connell Street.[1]
Commemoration
The Garden commemorates insurgents from various uprisings, including:
- the 1798 rebellion of the Society of United Irishmen
- the 1803 rebellion of Robert Emmet
- the 1848 rebellion of Young Ireland
- the 1867 rising of the Fenian Brotherhood
- the 1916 Easter Rising of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army
- the 1919-21 Irish War of Independence of the "Old" IRA
The site of the Garden is where the Irish Volunteers were founded in 1913, and where several leaders of the 1916 Rising were held overnight before being taken to Kilmainham Gaol.[1] The Garden was opened in 1966 by President Eamon de Valera on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, in which he had been a commander.[1]
Design
The Garden was designed by Dáithí Hanly. It is in the form of a sunken cruciform water-feature. Its focal point is a statue of the Children of Lir by Oisín Kelly, symbolising rebirth and resurrection, added in 1971.[1]
In 1976, a contest was held to find a poem which could express the appreciation and inspiration of this struggle for freedom. The winner was Dublin born author Liam Mac Uistin, whose poem "We Saw a Vision" an aisling style poem written in Irish, French, and English on the stone wall of the monument. The aisling (Vorlage:IPA-ga "vision") form was used in eighteenth-century poems longing for an end to Ireland's miserable condition.
In 2004 it was suggested that as part of the redesign of the square the Garden of Remembrance itself might be redesigned. This led to the construction of a new entrance on the garden's northern side in 2007.
References
- ↑ a b c d e f Yvonne Whelan: Symbolising the state: The iconography of O'Connell Street , Dublin after Independence (1922). In: Irish Geography. Vol.34. Jahrgang, No.2, 2001, S. 145–150 (ucd.ie [PDF; abgerufen am 20. November 2008]).
See also
- Irish National War Memorial Gardens, to Irish soldiers who fought and died in Irish regiments of the Allied armies in World War I
