Calls continue to revamp slum Easter Rising 1916 HQ on Moore Street

"Tír gán teánga is tír gán ánam (phon/pron "Tier gone changa iss tier gone onom!") A land without a language (or tongue) is a land without a soul. Duirt Pádraig Mac Píarás é sin cóupla blíana roimh an t'seachtain casca. Patrick Pearse - son of an Irish mother and English father.

The demolition of a 1916 monument by the powers that be won't diminish the Irish state's economic woes one iota, nor wil it decrease the historical significance of the brave men and women who stood their groung there as they bravely fought for full independence for the whole Itish nation and all its parts (an tír uile agus gach roinn di). Do today's government ministers hate Pearse more than Connolly, or do they equally dispis both, and also abhor the 5 other signatories of the Proclamation. Pearse probably ranks highest in the hate list of those who mmost striongly oppose teanga na nGael.

Well, the houses in Moore Street (Nos 14 to 17) to which the 1916 leaders retreated after the destruction of their main base at the GPO have been made sacrosanct and will be preserved for future generations in some way. I hope they will be properly regenerated and restored internally and externally for posterity. As a Dubliner, what I do hope happens is that the surrounding buildings planned for revamp are designed to look exactly as they did when first built. This design criterion was successfully used on the old houses along St. Stephens Green where the façades were built to resemble their former glory. We don’t want buildings out of character with the remaining surrounding buildings of this old area of Dublin.

chicksooze: It's idiotic for you to blame "the Brits" for the fact that countless Irish parents decided to stop speaking Irish to their children, preferring instead to speak a garbled mumbo-jumbo version of "English" to them. There are very few cases in history of a people rejecting its ancestral langauge. Ireland is one, despite your stupid attempt to exonerate the Irish of the responsibility for their decision.

chicksooze: Actually yes the British down through the years did a lot to destroy the language. However, the Famine, and the fact that many Irish considered it a sign of backwardness, was what really killed it. Then throw in poor teaching of the language after 1922, and that is why the language is where it is today. Yes Irish is still spoken in parts of Ireland, but the areas where it is the every day language is rapidly disappearing.

So George, is the english language the most important heritage the Americans have? LOL what a load of trash talk, the Irish didn't kill the Irish language the brits did, and FYI the Irish language is still spoken in many parts of Ireland.

If the Restoration has anything to do with furthering the Cause of the Dubliner Free State Government: Let the Butter Cookie Crumble !

The Irish are unique among peoples in the disregard they show for their history and heritage. The north end of O'Connell Street has been derelict for about 20 years now, all because it is owned by Irish gangster capitalists who have no respect for the nation's capital and prefer to let it disintegrate. Dublin City named the Moore Street area as a protected site, yet now they want to bulldoze it! What fools those Irish are. Still, what can you expect--the most important heritage a nation has is its language, and we know what the Irish did with the Irish language...