The home of Patrick Pearse and his family in Sandymount, Dublin, has been marked by a Dublin City Council Commemorative Plaque. The plaque was unveiled by Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland at 13 Sandymount Avenue, Dublin 4, on 29th April 2022. Pearse’s father, James Pearse, was a monumental sculptor who moved to Dublin around 1860. The…
Jane Wilde, a poet, nationalist and promoter of women’s rights has been honoured by a Dublin City Council Commemorative Plaque. The plaque was unveiled by Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland on 19th November 2021 at 1 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, now owned by the American College Dublin. Born in 1821, Jane Wilde was a polyglot who…
Frederick Douglass, the anti-slavery leader who visited Dublin in 1845, has been honoured by a Dublin City Council Commemorative Plaque. The plaque was unveiled on Thursday 21st October 2021 by Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland at the Irish Film Institute, Eustace Street, Temple Bar, formerly the Friends’ Meeting House. Speaking at the unveiling, historian Cecelia Hartsell…
Anna Parnell, the founder of the Ladies Land League, has been honoured by a Dublin City Council Commemorative Plaque. The plaque was unveiled by Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland at AIB Bank, O’Connell Street, Dublin, the headquarters of the Ladies’ Land League in 1881/82. A feminist and a radical, Anna Parnell was born at the family…
Dublin City Council is proud to unveil a plaque to honour two An Garda Síochána detectives who were killed in the line of duty, 81 years ago today. The commemorative plaque was unveiled on the morning of 16th August, 2021, at the building on Rathgar Road where the two men lost their lives. The plaque was proposed by the men’s surviving families and by Gardaí…
The latest plaque to be unveiled marks the last sailing of a Guinness Barge, which took place on 23rd June 1961. You can read about the unveiling and about the plaque and the Guinness Barges in this post, which has a great video by historian James Curry.
