Campaigners are confident that a museum to commemorate the 1916 Rising will be opened on an historical site at the centre of controversial rebuilding plans.
The Save No 16 Moore Street committee have called on Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny and Minister for Arts and Culture Jimmy Deenihan to restore the Dublin site to its former glory.
The building at the heart of the city centre was the venue for the meeting where the 1916 leaders decided to end their historic rebellion.
As plans continue for centenary commemoration ceremonies in 2016, the committee hope a museum will be opened on the site.
They renewed their appeal after the government announced a $30million revamp of the National Gallery which will be concluded in time for the 1916 celebrations.
Their plans would see numbers 14-17 Moore Street restored to their period condition and opened as a museum.
The Irish Times reports that the second floor of the museum would hold archived material relating to the Rising.
The first floor and ground floor would host a public exhibition space including restoration of battlefield tunnels.
The planned exhibition would include exhibits such as the Proclamation of Independence and the letter of surrender according to the report.
Group secretary John Conway outlined to the paper how the committee has campaigned for more than 10 years to save No 16 Moore Street after it was set to be demolished in 1999 to create a millennium centre.
Conway said: “A couple of the lads found out what was afoot and we started the campaign back then. It gained speed slowly, but by 2002 we were really stuck in.
“We got what was planned stopped and done away with and we got this new idea to develop.
“It is a really sensible balance between conservation with regeneration. We were deliriously happy and we remain deliriously happy. We have saved a lot of what’s left of the 1916 Rising.”
The campaigners include Nuala O’Rahilly-Price, the granddaughter of Michael Joseph O’Rahilly who was the only rebellion leader to die in battle.
She told the Irish Times that she is excited to see museum plans come to fruition.
O’Rahilly-Price said: “It is absolutely wonderful to have an actual memorial here in the centre of Dublin and to see what was done and to see the mayhem that was going around.
“It will bring recognition and hopefully a sense of history to any of the youngsters who come here.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.curtisjohnson | Jan 28, 2013, 08:01 PM EST
You have the literacy level of a ten year old.
anglo-norman | Jan 28, 2013, 02:51 PM EST
Spot on STEVENSTAR
STEVENSTAR | Jan 27, 2013, 11:20 PM EST
ALSO NOT SURE HOW MANY IRISH ON HERE OR AMERICANS MAKING THESE COMMENTS ...'BUT' ALL THIS ANTI ENGLISH CARRY ON IS NOT AS COMMON PLACE IN IRELAND ...AND WHEN I SEE THESE COMMENTS IT MAKES ME THINK YOUR AMERICAN OR IRA TYPES !! ... EVERY TIME THERE IS A RECESSION IN IRELAND WHERE DO THE IRISH GO ? = ENGLAND & LONDON TO WORK !! EVERY EVENING WHEN THEY COME HOME AND WATCH TV , WHAT ARE THEY WATCHING BBC, ITV, CHANNEL 4 ( ALL FREE I MIGHT ADD THEY IRISH DONT PAY THE UK LICENCE !!! WHERE DO THE IRISH GO TO SHOP ? ARGOS, DEBENHAMS, TESCO, MARKS N SPARKS... I HAVE LOTS OF FAMILY LIVING IN ENGLAND MY PARTER IS ENGLISH... & WHO WASNT OVER JOYED BY THE QUEENS VISIT IN 2011 EVERYONE APART FROM A FEW OLD MISERABLE BEGUDGERS WHO WANT NOTHING BUT TROUBLE AND HASSLE & UNFORTUNATELY YOUR WELL OUT NUMBERED .. AS WE HAVE PEACE NOW AND 95% OF US ARE HAPPY !! SO BUGGER OFF !
STEVENSTAR | Jan 27, 2013, 11:09 PM EST
PEOPLE ON HERE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT ME BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO BE COMMEMORTAING WARS AND WAR MEMORIALS ...WELL I FEEL THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH ALREADY.... AND WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE WANT ? MORE WAR MEMORIALS FOR THE GYPSIES TO BE ROBBING AND STEALING AND SELLING OFF FOR SCRAP ??? .... YOU ALL KNOW WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM IN IRELAND WITH THAT ALREADY ........SO MAYBE SORT THAT OUT FIRST :-)
STEVENSTAR | Jan 27, 2013, 11:09 PM EST
PEOPLE ON HERE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT ME BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO BE COMMEMORTAING WARS AND WAR MEMORIALS ...WELL I FEEL THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH ALREADY.... AND WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE WANT ? MORE WAR MEMORIALS FOR THE GYPSIES TO BE ROBBING AND STEALING AND SELLING OFF FOR SCRAP ??? .... YOU ALL KNOW WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM IN IRELAND WITH THAT ALREADY ........SO MAYBE SORT THAT OUT FIRST :-)
STEVENSTAR | Jan 27, 2013, 11:09 PM EST
PEOPLE ON HERE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT ME BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO BE COMMEMORTAING WARS AND WAR MEMORIALS ...WELL I FEEL THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH ALREADY.... AND WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE WANT ? MORE WAR MEMORIALS FOR THE GYPSIES TO BE ROBBING AND STEALING AND SELLING OFF FOR SCRAP ??? .... YOU ALL KNOW WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM IN IRELAND WITH THAT ALREADY ........SO MAYBE SORT THAT OUT FIRST :-)
curtisjohnson | Jan 27, 2013, 06:54 PM EST
Pearse was only one generation removed from indigenous Irish speakers on his mother’s side.
anglo-norman | Jan 27, 2013, 06:06 PM EST
warrenpointless needs his nappy changed
IrelandNorth | Jan 27, 2013, 12:42 PM EST
Pádraig Ánraí Mac Píaráis/Patrick Henry Pearse had English blood surging through his republican veins, though pumped by an Irish heart. But the original British were the Welsh, whom despised those invading low country Angles with a passion, before their country was subsumed by those hungry ghosts of other people's real estate. Like father like son. Pearse's father was rightly known as a highly cultivated man. His biography generally tends to be understated. All prodigies tend to have unique fathers.
anglo-norman | Jan 26, 2013, 08:59 PM EST
SAD
warrenpoint00 | Jan 26, 2013, 07:50 PM EST
Tory Tory , Dan the anglo-norman man.As your wounded friend might say you cannot fool the Oirish,you Ball-less brit
anglo-norman | Jan 26, 2013, 07:10 PM EST
I bet warrenpointless has british blood in him.
warrenpoint00 | Jan 26, 2013, 06:40 PM EST
Poor old wounded ego.WoundedKnee we on this site all know that you are the infamous George Dillon.Yes,remember him, that posted derogatory bile in the past about Irish nationals.Sorry George, you like to address us with your plastic language as Oirish.Now you are claiming to be an Irish republican yet you offer words of comfort and support to foreign british loyalist/unionists that force their marches down the streets of our towns ,yes including Dungannon town.You have climbed into bed with anglo-norman another piece of foreign composite, one who is british but claims to be an Irishman as well, being silly is one thing,George,there is no excuse for being down right stupid.Your brand of Irish republicanism makes genuine Irish Americans with Irish republican values look stupid George.Run along now Wounded , put on your nice green Jacket ,pink pants yellow shirt and green tie with white shamrock and act out your Irish fantasy somewhere else,you ain,t no Irish republican,dude.By the way Woundedlegs my friend from an Gaeltacht proof read your attempt at as gaeilge,and of course laughed his head off before uttering the words we all associated you with.Plastic Paddy. You can,t fool the Oirish, dude.
Jcs | Jan 26, 2013, 05:02 PM EST
"Over sized plastic leprechaun", ha ,ha ,ha LOL, effin hell WoundedKnee, if I was you mate I would get under the bed,those Irish bucks have a way of picking you apart ,just like a vulture would.LOL.
WoundedKnee | Jan 26, 2013, 04:50 PM EST
In the quite unlikely case that his story about Dungannon is true, Warrenpint's yarn would represent foreign migrants preventing Irish people from walking down a street in their own country. As an Irish Republican I find that obnoxious. Of course as a sectarian bigot Warrenpint thinks his (probably invented) story is great.
WoundedKnee | Jan 26, 2013, 04:47 PM EST
anglo-norman: The irony is that I could with facility conduct this exchange in Irish. I'll wager that our uber-Oirish Warrenpint could not offer one correct sentence in that language. He probably thinks that "Chinese, Polish" etc. are more worthy, because they're the languages of some of the foreign settlers he fantasizes about. Of course he doesn't speak these languages either, and, as a quick perusal of his notes will show, his command of English remains shaky.
anglo-norman | Jan 26, 2013, 04:29 PM EST
Pearse had saxon blood in him
anglo-norman | Jan 26, 2013, 04:11 PM EST
You plastic Patrick!! You really are a silly person warrenpoint. You accuse him of being a bigot yet you call him a bigotted name? Get with the program son...
IrelandNorth | Jan 26, 2013, 01:39 PM EST
"There are some things much worse than bloodshed. And slavery is one of them!" Comdt P H Pearse. BA/BL Schoolteacher/Lawyer/Patriot. Son of an Irish mother and English free thinker/dissenter/stonemason father. Fatalities of the week long Easter Rising, 1916 were an infinitesimal fraction of the Abrahamic abberation that was the four year long WWI, 1914-'18.
warrenpoint00 | Jan 26, 2013, 12:41 PM EST
Let me tell you a little story "On your wounded knees".Three years ago in the town of Dungannon Ireland some of your loyalist/ unionist white supremacist friends wanted to march down a street to parade their bigoted white supremacy to Irish nationalists, somewhat in the way you ,Mr wounded knees and brain might do.The Polish emigrants that lived there took to the street and did not allow it to happen.The emigrants to our country with the help of Irish nationalists are not going to allow british white supremacists to dictate to us unfolding events taking place in our country. You Mr woundedknees are a washed up old white supremacist from America living in the past ,unable to come to terms with what is happening in the real world.You are full of anger because you want the country of your fore fathers to unite as an all white, bible dictated ,god fearing fascist nation.You poor unfortunate ,oversized, brainless plastic Irish leprechaun, your ancient romantic ideals for Ireland belong in the 19th century or in your bigoted enclave of South Boston , Sunnyside or whatever white supremacist hovel you live in.We Irish nationalists living here in Ireland all agree that the children of emigrants to our nation, be it white,yellow or black will one day play a huge role in determining the unity of our nation. In our view they will be a welcome change from the spineless genetics of your friends the british, normans and saxons.Your racist views are not welcome in the United States of America either ,Mr Woundedlegs please, what makes you think you can sell your bigoted views to the Irish.You plastic Patrick
WoundedKnee | Jan 26, 2013, 10:28 AM EST
What a crazy this poster Warrenpint is. I've seen some nutty posts in my time, but I don't think I've ever come across such a lunatic fantasy as his, in which " the Africans ,Polish and the Chinese" bring about a United Ireland. What a nut!
Searlit | Jan 25, 2013, 10:24 PM EST
Ireland isn't part of England, no matter how invaders have tried to claim the island and partition it. They tried to use popes against the people of Ireland, they robbed them of their land and burnt their humble homes. They used penal laws to keep them pennyless and uneducated. They used extreme and barbaric practices to terrorize the indigenous Irish. When all of this failed they created a 'famine' to try and finish them off. Now, there's still a few around that don't want the rest of the world to find out the truth. The truth does have way of getting out, though. The more it's resisted, the more obvious it becomes.
warrenpoint00 | Jan 25, 2013, 10:23 PM EST
Mr anglo- norman.Please. You disrespect my title, you left out the OhOh.I know ,we in Warrenpoint were all surprised too, we never realised that so many saxons could be disposed of so easily from our shores in one day by Celtic warriors.Regarding your typical british orientated question I honestly cannot answer that about anyone on your list as I am sure none of them other than Mr Adams are alive and you should refer to him on this matter. As for Mr Adams being the foundation stone for Irish freedom a lot of Irish nationalist/republicans at this time might beg to differ with your sentiments, especially the many families of all those young Irish men that so nobly disposed of the saxon from Irish soil. slan leat
Seanmor | Jan 25, 2013, 09:40 PM EST
The museum to commerate the 1916 uprising shiould prominently display the Proclamation of Independence, which clearly states the patriots were seeking to liberate "the whole nation and all its parts". Partition and an independent Southern Irish state was never their objective. It also declated that, "The peole of Ireland had a right to the ownership of Ireland". Nowhere does it state that Arabs, Indians and Africans have a right to the ownership to Ireland or any of its parts. As a London-born U.S. citizen who often attents services in Methosist and Episcopal churches, I hope the proposed museum will be established and the aims of the the 1916 patriots will soon be achieved.
curtisjohnson | Jan 25, 2013, 08:35 PM EST
@anglo-norman “The Irish of british blood especially english blood proved & continually to prove the best stock in Ireland in all aspects of Irish Life...FACT” I’m guessing that in addition to trolling this site, you’re probably also one of the nordic suprem_cist freaks spending the rest of your waking hours posting at sites like scu_front. Historically, the indigenous population was deprived of all property and basic rights of human existence – even education was a felony. It’s absurd to compare them to the contemporaneous anglo population who had all of the resources and wealth of the country at their disposal. A more relevant comparison would be to the indigenous diaspora who left the country before the penal laws were in full force – they rose to the highest levels of European society (or even the few who went to the Americas such as Commodore John Barry). Another relevant comparison is what is happening in the O6 – as the indigenous population gains a modicum of parity they have easily overtaken the occupying population in terms of education – this is readily documented and undisputed. Moreover, the reference to “british” “blood” certainly begs the question as the Irish, Welsh and Scottish are more closely related genetically than the anglo-saxons. Furthermore, it’s well established that many indigenous families living in the Pale anglicized their last names to avoid being banished. Let’s see the evidence that Gerry Adams and Bobby Sands are from predominantly “saxon bloodlines” LOL.
anglo-norman | Jan 25, 2013, 07:54 PM EST
The Irish of british blood especially english blood proved & continually to prove the best stock in Ireland in all aspects of Irish Life...FACT
anglo-norman | Jan 25, 2013, 07:44 PM EST
warrenpoint- Is Gerry Adams of saxon bloodlines? Wole Tone, Robert Emmett.George Plant,Erskine Childers.Bobby Sands,Patrick Pearse,Parnell,Sean Russell,Robert Barton,John Stephens, et etc?? The anglo-norman protestant are the foundation of Irish Freedom son...
Searlit | Jan 25, 2013, 06:40 PM EST
Whoa! I did not mean to set off the firestorm that is STEVENSTAR. It's not about commemorating war or killing - it's about preserving and respecting an event that brought about the Republic of Ireland.
Towngate | Jan 25, 2013, 06:35 PM EST
Just like the Irish to propose celebrating the spot where Pearse ignominiously sent a girl out to the British with a scribbled surrender note. If they want to bang on about this disasterous event, they should at least have the wit to name it "SurrenderCentral".
seanomelb | Jan 25, 2013, 04:27 PM EST
Btw falling star maybe we should tear down the wellington monument and other reminders of British colonisation.
seanomelb | Jan 25, 2013, 04:25 PM EST
Stevenstar wishes to tear down all museums and archives all over the world what a dipstick he is.
warrenpoint00 | Jan 25, 2013, 04:08 PM EST
STEVEN and Mr Kenny are of the same mindset, they would have more in common with those that opposed Irish freedom rather than those who fought for it.Reality is that Ireland still has not got its freedom and maybe STEVEN is right, what Irish man wants to be reminded that we surrendered our nation to the saxon in all rebellions prior to and after that particular rebellion of 1916.A more true and fitting commemoration will be when Ireland as a free nation will take its place among the great nations of the world ,we may need the help of the Africans ,Polish and the Chinese to achieve this though, it certainly wont be achieved by those with the free state/ saxon blood lines.
ancavker | Jan 25, 2013, 01:22 PM EST
STEVEN: You represent why so many Irish in Ireland dont deserve the freedom that 1916 gave you. You have no respect for it. Most normal countries preseve their past and have museums and memorials to the men and women who fought for their freedom and independence and right to rule themselves. And most countries honor those people and perserve battle fields etc. Your neighbor has an overwhelming amount of museums and memeorials and statues and plaques to all sorts of battles both big and small. You will find them all over England. And yet I guess that is OK in your mind. Oh and by the way I am Irish born.
STEVENSTAR | Jan 25, 2013, 01:01 PM EST
WHY SHOULD WE REMEMBER 1916 ITS WAS A 100YEARS AGO WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO BE DOING OVER HEREIN IRELAND LIKE CELEBRATING THE PEACE THAT WE HAVE NOW... I DO NOT WANT TO COMMERATE WARS AND KILLINGS... ITS NOW 2013 AND IRELAND IS A MUCH HAPPIER AND SAFER PLACE TO LIVE.. WE ALSO NOW HAVE GREAT RELATIONS WITH OUR NEIGHBORS THE UK AND THATS WHAT WE WANT TO FOCUS ON OVERE HERE !!! END OF STORY
Searlit | Jan 25, 2013, 12:31 PM EST
I hope the Taoiseach will support this museum. I think it would heal so many wounds, as well as preserve history. I know I would want to visit a 1916 museum, especially in an authentic location. We, Irish-Americans in the USA, also feel starved of information about the Republican side of Irish History. It's tremendously meaningful to us.
johnshiel | Jan 25, 2013, 09:52 AM EST
as the songman says, "whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast"...
WoundedKnee | Jan 25, 2013, 09:45 AM EST
Sad to see how the Irish have no respect for their heritage. That neighborhood is now a foreign migrant ghetto, full of Africans and Chinese, all kinds of huxter stores. The Irish capitalists would sell their own mother for a buck.