Garden of Remembrance (Dublin)

[1] The garden was opened by President Eamon de Valera during the semicentennial of the Easter Rising in 1966.

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.

Its focal point is a statue of the Children of Lir by Oisín Kelly, symbolising rebirth and resurrection, added in 1971,[1] cast in the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry of Florence, Italy.

The aisling ("vision") form was used in eighteenth-century poems longing for an end to Ireland's miserable condition.

Lasamar solas an dóchais agus níor múchadh é. I bhfásach an lagmhisnigh rinneadh aisling dúinn.

Rinneadh saoirse den daoirse agus d'fhágamar agaibhse mar oidhreacht í.

Garden of Remembrance
Children of Lir Monument by Oisin Kelly at the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry , Florence, Italy
Children of Lir sculpture
In Celtic custom, on concluding a battle, the weapons were broken and cast in the river, to signify the end of hostilities. [ 1 ]
Saoirse (freedom in the Irish language) in the aisling in the Garden of Remembrance.