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Relatives of signatories meet with NAMA over future of 1916 buildings

DARA KELLY,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 8:01 AM

Updated Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 8:01 AM

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Former protest to save the historic buildings on Moore Street, Dublin

The relatives of the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation (the document issued by Irish revolutionary leaders during the Easter Rising) plan to meet with the board of the Irish National Asset Management Agency (Nama) to discuss plans to partially demolish historical buildings on Dublin’s Moore Lane.

The buildings, which have been declared unsafe by Dublin City Council, are adjacent to the General Post Office, and are said to have been occupied by the leaders of the Rising.

Members of the Connolly, Clarke, Ceannt, MacDonagh and Plunkett families will meet with NAMA chairman Frank Daly and chief executive Brendan MacDonagh tomorrow.

The 19-century buildings at Moore Lane have been ordered be lowered in height to make them safe by Dublin City Council.

The buildings form part of the previous Carlton Cinema site due to be redeveloped by property developer Joe O’Reilly. However he relatives' group will meet with Nama to express their opposition to O’Reilly being facilitated 'in any way' by the agency to proceed with his 800,000 square foot development.

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Towngate | Mar 04, 2011, 03:49 AM EST

Sorry Typo: thats 'shiny Plaque' of course.

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Towngate | Mar 04, 2011, 03:43 AM EST

I KNOW THEY had no mandate from the people of Ireland for the 'rising' in '16, but we must assume they intended some kind of 'democratic state' eventually. So why do the decendants of Connolly,Kent,MacDonagh,and Plunkett have any more say that the rest of us? ~ ~ ~ Time now to remember this is where they were holed up after the collapse of the GPO headquarters and from where Pearse himself - eventually - emerged (having first sent a woman)to deliver the Unconditional Surrender To the British Army. It was a slum then - it is unsafe now - time to replace it with something new. The decendnt families and their supporters and maybe even Joe O'Reilly himself can chuck in 'a few bob' for a nice shiny Plague to help anyone who wishes to remember the spot where "..this thing" - as Pearse described the rising - failed.

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esatdigiwank | Mar 03, 2011, 04:30 AM EST

hate to say this but ire may need another rising in 2016...!

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jacersagain | Mar 02, 2011, 05:56 PM EST

I couldn’t agree more with FallsRNat and the relatives of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders. This spot should be preserved for its historical significance. However, if the building is in danger of collapse on the Dublin Street Traders working outside of it (whose forebears would have been there when the ’16 leaders retreated to there from the GPO) and their customers, then something must be done to protect people in Moore Street. I agree w/ FallsNRat that National Lottery money should be used to protect the building – there are lots of ways to restore unstable buildings using modern scientific materials.

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FallsRNat | Mar 02, 2011, 03:12 PM EST

This is obviously an important site given the historical significance of the event, however, with the country facing untold levels of poverty & higher taxes imposed by the previous FF govt & the banks, then surely the number should come from the Lotto or by private donation.

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