Garden of Remembrance (Dublin) - Commemoration

Commemoration

The Garden commemorates freedom fighters 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 Irish Republican Army

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. The Garden was opened in 1966 by President Éamon de Valera on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, in which he had been a commander.