GPO has ‘an iconic position in history’

A judge has granted declarations that various buildings and locations on and around Dublin’s Moore St comprise a 1916 Rising “battlefield site” comprising a national monument.

The Easter Rising is “unique” and the GPO occupies an iconic position in Irish history, making what happened to the men and women who fled the GPO when it was ablaze “a matter worthy of unique commemoration”, said Mr Justice Max Barrett.

The Moore St battlefield site, as the site to where the rebels fled, battle was done, surrender negotiated, and where “workers, civilian, and combatant, lived and died in what to no little extent was a workers’ rising, is “unqiquely worthy of commemoration”.