Garden of Remembrance (Dublin)
The Garden of Remembrance is a memorial garden in Dublin dedicated to the memory of "all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom". It is located in the northern fifth of the former Rotunda Gardens in Parnell Square, a Georgian square at the northern end of O'Connell Street. The garden was opened by President Eamon de Valera during the semicentennial of the Easter Rising in 1966.
Garden of Remembrance
Children of Lir Monument by Oisin Kelly at the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry, Florence, Italy
Children of Lir sculpture
In Celtic custom, on concluding a battle, the weapons were broken and cast in the river, to signify the end of hostilities.
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2022 census, the city council area had a population of 592,713, while Dublin City and its suburbs had a population of 1,263,219, and County Dublin had a population of 1,501,500.
Image: Samuel Beckett Bridge At Sunset Dublin Ireland (97037639) (cropped)
Image: Dublin The Convention Centre 01
Image: Goerge Salmon Trinity College Dublin
Image: O'Connell Bridge (25748548914)