Fusiliers' Arch

The Fusiliers' Arch is a monument which forms part of the Grafton Street entrance to St Stephen's Green park, in Dublin, Ireland.

[7] The arch was commissioned to commemorate the four battalions (two regular and two militia) of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers that served in the Second Boer war.

[9][4] The construction of the arch coincided with a time of political and social change in Ireland, and the colonial and imperial background to the dedication were anathema to a burgeoning nationalist movement – who labelled the structure "Traitor's Gate".

[10][11][12] Though damaged in a cross-fire between the Irish Citizen Army and British forces during the 1916 Easter Rising,[9][13] the arch remains "one of the few colonialist monuments in Dublin not blown up" in Ireland's post-independence history.

[10][12] Engraved on the western face is the Latin text, Fortissimis suis militibus hoc monumentum Eblana dedicavit MCMVII, "To its strongest soldiers, Dublin dedicates this monument, 1907."

Name inscription on underside of arch