Garden of Remembrance (Dublin)
The Garden of Remembrance ( German: Garden of Remembrance, Irish: An Gairdín Cuimhneacháin ) a landscaped garden as a memorial in the Irish capital Dublin is in memory of " all those who gave their lives for the cause of Irish freedom." It is located in the northern fifth of the former Rotunda Gardens in Parnell Square, a place in the style of Georgian architecture near the northern end of O'Connell Street and the Gate Theatre.
Commemoration
The garden commemorates freedom fighters from various uprisings, including:
- The rebellion of 1798 the Society of United Irishmen
- The rebellion of 1803 by Robert Emmet
- The rebellion of 1848 by the Young Ireland movement
- The Fenian Rebellion of 1867 Fenian Brotherhood by the
- The Easter Rising of 1916 by the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army
- Of the Irish War of Independence, the IRA
The garden is located at the point where the Irish Volunteers were founded in 1913 and where some of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916 were held overnight before being brought into the prison Kilmainham Gaol. The Garden of Remembrance was established in 1966 by the Irish President Eamon de Valera on the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916 - opened - in which he was commander.
The British Queen Elizabeth II visited the garden on 17th May 2011 as part of her four-day state visit historic and laid a wreath there. This was the first visit by a British monarch to Ireland since the last by King George V in 1911.
Design
The garden was designed by Dáithí Hanly. It is provided with a pool of water in the form of a sunken (Christian) cross. The bottom of the basin is decorated with mosaics of blue-green waves and Celtic weapons. This is reminiscent of the old custom of throwing as a sign of the cessation of hostilities the weapons into the water. In addition, there is a statue of the children of Lir Oisín Kelly as a symbol of rebirth and resurrection focus of the garden; it was erected in 1971.