Garden of Remembrance

The Garden of Remembrance is a memorial garden in Dublin dedicated to the memory of "all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom". It is located in the northern fifth of the former Rotunda Gardens in Parnell Square, a Georgian square at the northern end of O'Connell Street.CommemorationThe Garden commemorates freedom fighters from various uprisings, including: the 1798 rebellion of the Society of United Irishmen the 1803 rebellion of Robert Emmet the 1848 rebellion of Young Ireland the 1867 rising of the Fenian Brotherhood the 1916 Easter Rising of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army the 1919–21 Irish War of Independence of the Irish Republican Army The site of the Garden is where the Irish Volunteers were founded in 1913, and where several leaders of the 1916 Rising were held overnight before being taken to Kilmainham Gaol. President Éamon de Valera opened the Garden in 1966 on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, in which he had been a commander.