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1916 battlefield vote

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  • 23-05-2012 9:58am
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    Here's the thing: tonight the Dáil votes on a motion on preserving the 1916 battlefield site around the GPO - from the GPO along Moore Lane to Moore Street, where the Citizen Army, Volunteers and Cumann na mBan occupied the terrace of houses from No 10 to No 18 Moore Street.

    Here's Enda Kenny last year calling these streets "laneways of history" and saying they must be preserved:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx0_UaTstCI

    This is what happened on those streets:

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0409/1224314547589.html

    Our planners have - against objections by An Taisce, the Georgian Society, relatives of those who fought in 1916 and others - approved a giant shopping mall that would spread out behind the GPO along Henry Street and into Moore Street.

    NAMA is funding builder Joe O'Reilly, who created the Dundrum Centre, to build this.

    Those opposing the subsuming of the Moore Street terrace, Moore Lane, etc into the site want instead for this battlefield trail to become a commemorative area, with a small museum in the Moore Street terrace, like the Alamo Trail, Gettysburg, the Paris sites commemorating the Revolution, London's Imperial War Museum, etc.

    Please email your TDs today - Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - to ask them to support the motion. (The government parties are opposing the motion, and want to replace it with an anodyne version of their own.)


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