Images
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The General Post Office in an engraving from about 1827
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The GPO before independence with British flag flying. Most of the building and the adjacent Hotel Metropole were destroyed in 1916.
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New Garda recruits march past the GPO, Tóstal 1954
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A plaque commemorating the Easter Rising at the GPO, with the Irish text in Gaelic script, and the English text in Latin script
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The GPO in 2006.
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The GPO in 2007.
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