Garden Of Remembrance

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  • Address
    Northside, Parnell Sq, city centre
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  • Phone
    874 3074
  • Transport
    bus: 3, 10, 11, 13, 16, 19 or 22 from city centre

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Lonely Planet review

This rather austere little park was opened by President Eamon de Valera in 1966 for the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. It is still known to some Dubs as the 'Garden of Mature Recollection', mocking the linguistic gymnastics employed by former favourite for president, Brian Lenihan, who was caught out lying in a minor political scandal and used the phrase to try and wiggle his way out of it.

The most interesting feature in the garden is a bronze statue of the Children of Lir by Oisin Kelly, who according to Irish legend were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother. It was probably intended to evoke the famous lines penned by WB Yeats in his poem Easter 1916 : 'All changed, changed utterly:/A terrible beauty is born'.