To be unveiled on 24 May 2025. Born in Malta in 1880, Madeleine Ffrench-Mullen grew up in Dundrum, County Dublin. Having lived abroad for a few years she returned to Dublin in 1913 and worked in soup kitchens during the Lockout. She joined the Irish Citizen Army where she met her lifelong companion, Kathleen Lynn….
This plaque commemorates the socialist and signatory of the 1916 Proclamation James Connolly. Find this plaque on Google maps. Born in Edinburgh in 1868, to Irish parents, Connolly became a key figure in the Irish trade union movement and socialist politics, particularly after his return to Dublin from the United States in 1910. From December…
This plaque commemorates both Dr Kathleen Lynn and her lifelong partner Madeleine ffrench-Mullen, who founded Teach Ultan (St Ultan’s Infants Hospital) at 37 Charlemont Street, Dublin 2. Teach Ultan is now part of the Clayton Hotel, who kindly agreed to allow the plaque be erected. Locate this plaque on Google maps. A native of Mayo,…
This plaque commemorates Patrick Pearse, who lived with his family at 13 Sandymount Avenue, Dublin 4. Pearse’s father, James Pearse, was a monumental sculptor who moved to Dublin around 1860. The family originally lived over the shop in Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street) before moving to Sandymount. Their first address in the area was…
Commemorating the fighting that took place at the bridge during the Rising and those who took part, this plaque is on Meagher’s Public House, 283-285 Richmond Road, Fairview, Dublin 3, D03 DK26. Locate this plaque on Google maps. It was unveiled on 12th November 2016.
Commemorating a battle during the Rising and those who took part, this plaque is on the Annesley House Public House, North Strand, D03 K8P4, Dublin 1. Locate this plaque in Google maps. The plaque was unveiled on 12th November 2016.
Located at the Capuchin Mission Office, Church Street, Dublin 7, D07 NNH4, this plaque commemorates the Four Courts Garrison. Locate this plaque on Google maps. It is one of several plaques erected during the 1916 Centenary year to mark the garrison sites around the city, and to honour those who fought and died during the…
On the afternoon of Friday, 29th April 2016, a Dublin City Council plaque commemorating the Jacob’s Factory Garrison that served in the 1916 Easter Rising was unveiled at the Dublin Institution of Technology, Bishop’s Street, Dublin 2. Locate this plaque on Google maps. The plaque was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Críona Ní…
On Monday, 25th April 2016, a plaque commemorating the death one hundred years earlier of Irish Volunteer Gerald Keogh, was unveiled at 117-119 Grafton Street (above Butlers Chocolate Café), with Councillor Mícheál Mac Donncha speaking at the ceremony on behalf of Dublin City Council. On the second day of the Easter Rising, Keogh – a…
This plaque commemorates republican and labour activist Constance Countess Markievicz at Surrey House, Leinster Road, Rathmines, where she and her family lived from 1911. The house became a centre for republican and labour activity and was looted by British forces in the aftermath of the Rising. Locate this plaque on Google maps. Read Countess Markievicz’s…
