Call For Hands Around Moore Street to Save National Monument from 1916 Rising

dublin | miscellaneous | event notice Thursday April 18, 2013 19:05 by Diarmuid Breatnach - Personal Capacity

Rally to support development as a national monument

This terrace in Moore St. was the last site of resistance of the GPO garrison, Volunteers and Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan and Fianna, (about 100 people) after the evacuation of the GPO. It was therefore the last HQ of the Rising also. A number of fighters and civilians died in the street also. The site is neglected and under threat from developers.

Painting of 1916 Rising (source: Save Moore Street FB site)

Three houses in the terrace were designated a "national monument" after a campaign years ago but the site has been allowed to be run down while also a property developer has sought to turn the three houses into a café and toilets area as part of a wider shopping mall development. The Save Moore Street campaign wishes to develop the houses and area as a battleground interpretive centre instead and wishes the whole terrace to be preserved and developed appropriately.

There has been a new ongoing campaign for a few years and appeals have been made to Dublin City Council and an environmental impact study called for.

A relative of the executed 1916 Rising leaders has called for a gathering to symbolically put our protective arms around the last buildings occupied by the men and women of the GPO garrison:
"Before the time runs out for the responses to the developers' Environmental Impact Study ... it is important that we show that there is support for the proper treatment of the National Monument and the terrace. ..... We need to demonstrate that it is not just a few who are interested in this matter."