Photograph of Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw courtesy of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

Plaque for physician and philanthropist Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw to be unveiled

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 Rotunda Hospital’s first home to be commemorated with a Dublin City Council plaque

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…

Iggy McGovern, Councillor Donna Cooney, Anne van Weerden, and Professor Peter Gallagher.

William Rowan Hamilton plaque unveiled

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…

Photograph of Maureen O'Hara in 1945 from the New York Sunday News

Maureen O’Hara plaque to be unveiled on 7 September

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…

Photograph of a page from the Irish Daily Independent from 2 July 1900. The headline reads 'PATRIOTIC CHILDREN'S TREAT. A SPLENDID GATHERING'.

NO FLUNKEYISM HERE! The Patriotic Children’s Treat of 1900

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 writer Maeve Brennan to be honoured by Dublin City Council

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…

James Connolly plaque to be unveiled by Dublin City Council

James Connolly plaque to be unveiled by Dublin City Council

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…