monuments ireland

The Anna Livia Fountain was built on O Connell Street in Dublin to commemorate the millennium of the city in 1988. Anna Livia is the spirit of the River Liffey.

It is commonly known to Dubliners as the "Floozy in the Jacuzzi".
The monument has now been removed from O'Connell Street and is expected to be moved to the Croppies Memorial on Dublins North Quay....

This Monument is a memorial to the men of the North Longford Flying Column who took part in an ambush on Auxiliary forces on the 2nd February, 1921. The Flying Column was led by General Sean McEoin "The Blacksmith of Ballinalee"....

Distributed over many acres and extending into adjoining townlands, Carrowmore represents the largest grouping of megalithic monuments in Ireland, and immense Neolithic burial ground where once there may have been more than a hundred tombs. Casual exploration in the last century and present day gravel quarrying in the vicinity have devalued the archaeological potential of the site; but it is still a rewarding place to visit, steeped in atmosphere and evoking a sense of the past.
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This was erected to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. It was designed by well known Irish sculptor, Mick Wilkins from Barna, County Galway, who was commissioned by the Italian Embassy to design a piece with a nautical theme. The sculpture looks like a sea bird and is carved in stone....

This monument which dominates the landscape between Warrenpoint and Rostrevor was erected in 1826 in memory of Major General Robert Ross who fought in Europe and the American War of Independece. The monument celebrates his victory over the American Forces in Bladensburg in 1814 and his entry into the capital, Washington, that same day. He was reputed to have burned down all the public buildings including the White House itself....

The Spire in Dublin points skyward over the historic Irish capital like an enormous needle. It was built at a cost of four million euro and is the focal point of a project aimed at rejuvenating the O'Connell Street district, Dublin's traditional shopping and cultural hub.
Officially titled The Spire, though another consideration was The Brian Boru Spire, the monument has gained plenty of more colourful names by locals. Some of the cleaner examples include ‘The Spike’, ‘The Spire in the...

The Lynch Memorial is situated near the Church of St Nicholas in the form of a black marble stone over a built-up Gothic doorway. It commemorates the - stern and unbending justice - of James Lynch Fitzstephen, Mayor of Galway in 1493, who found his own son Walter guilty of murdering a Spanish visitor and condemned him to death. When no one could be found to carry out the sentence, so the popular but dubious legend goes, the Mayor hanged his own son before retiring into seclusion....

This impressive national monument on the southern side of the island ( 2.5km west of Cill Eanna) stands on the edge of the great cliffs. Its approaches are so well guarded by natural defences and by achevaux-de-frise, that it must have been well-nigh impregnable.

A century ago, Dr John O' Donovan measured the remains of the wall left after many cliff falls since its construction over 2000 years ago, and concluded that it was perhaps the biggest fort on the island at one time, though it...

Subterranean tunnels running under walled city once served as a linkage of the entire fortress without having to go above ground. These tunnels due to security reasons are now closed to the public but the part they played throughout the history of the city is a significant one. Not open to the public....

More has been written about James Joyce than about Shakespeare.
The eldest son of a spendthrift who brought his large family from prosperity to poverty without relinquishing his standards, Joyce was educated by the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, one of the finest private schools in the country, until the money ran out.
He was then offered a free place at Belvedere College in the centre of Dublin to continue his secondary education. Precocious in many respects, he had his fi...