The next, and last for 2024, City Council plaque will commemorate physician and philanthropist Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw (1839-1900), who lived in Molesworth Street from 1861 to 1881. The plaque replaces a missing Dublin Tourism plaque and will be unveiled by Lord Mayor James Geoghegan at 10 Molesworth Street at 11.30 a.m. on 16 November 2024;…
The next Dublin City Council commemorative plaque will mark the original site of the Rotunda Hospital, founded in South Great George’s Street in 1745 by Bartholomew Mosse. The ‘Rotunda’, Ireland’s first dedicated maternity hospital, or ‘lying-in hospital’, remained on the site until 1757, when it relocated to Rutland [now Parnell] Square. The Lord Mayor of…
The latest Dublin City Council commemorative plaque marks the site of the childhood home of mathematician & astronomer William Rowan Hamilton, on Dominick Street, Dublin 1. The plaque was unveiled on 16 October by Deputy Lord Mayor Cllr Donna Cooney. Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) was an Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his contributions…
We’re delighted to announce that Dublin City Council will be unveiling a commemorative plaque in honour of the iconic Irish actress, Maureen O’Hara, on Saturday, 7 September 2024. The ceremony will take place at 11am at O’Hara’s childhood home, 32 Beechwood Avenue Upper, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, D06 E9T4. Born Maureen FitzSimons in 1920, O’Hara went…
On 29 June 2024 Dublin City Council will host a ‘Picnic in the Park’ to mark the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the Patriotic Children’s Treat, which took place in Clonturk Park on 1 July 1900. Queen Victoria visited Dublin from 3 to 27 April 1900, and got a mixed reception. The visit was…
Dublin City Council is pleased to have unveiled three plaques over the past two months. On 20 March the Lord Mayor and the Assistant Chief Fire Officer unveiled the third in a series commemorating Dublin firefighters who were killed in the line of duty. Fireman John Kite died on 20 March 1884 while attending a…
On 6 January 2024 at 11 a.m., Dublin City Council will unveil a commemorative plaque for the writer Maeve Brennan, at her childhood home in Ranelagh. Speaking at the ceremony, and alongside the Lord Mayor, will be writer Sinéad Gleeson, who is a great champion of Maeve Brennan’s work. Born in Dublin on 6 January…
The building which originally housed the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts (RHA) has been memorialised by a Dublin City Council commemorative plaque. The Royal Hibernian Academy was founded in August 1823 and from 1825 to 1916 had its home at 35 Abbey Street. 35 Abbey Street was designed by the architect Francis Johnson, the second…
James Connolly, socialist and signatory of the 1916 Proclamation, is to be commemorated by a Dublin City Council plaque. 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…
Dublin City Council has unveiled a commemorative plaque celebrating cyclist Shay Elliott, the first Irishman to win a stage in the Tour de France and to wear the Yellow Jersey. The event took place at 96 Old County Road, Crumlin, on 23 June, with Councillor Carolynn Moore unveiling the plaque on behalf of the Lord…
