Dublin place names in honour of Irish Martyrs .

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Looks like original dollied up by Corpo ?

And another one.....Pearse No Sons

Great Brunswick Street grew increasingly commercial during the 19th century, with offices, builders’ yards, mechanical and electrical suppliers and other forms of light industry emerging.

It was within this context that James Henry Pearse, father of Padraig Pearse, established his monumental sculpting business at Number 27 in 1870, having previously operated a sculpting partnership at Number 182. Following his death in 1900, the business was carried on for a few years under the Pearse & Sons name by his younger son, sculptor William Pearse (1881-1916), with some help from his more famous elder son, Patrick Pearse (1879-1916).

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Yes... must try harder.

Well cogs, at least my post generated more replies than any other on this thread. At least some posters found in interesting so I think I’ll pass on the homework bit.

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If....I may be of assistance JBo me oul shegosha !!!

Ah, sure why didn’t I think of that now.

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When I was staying at Trinity College a few years back I used to walk along Pearse Street to get into town, and I think I'm right in saying that the Pearse family home/shop is still there? Think the dad did stonework, memorials etc. I will check it out and report back.

I think his father was from England,I remember reading that some years ago maybe from Devon

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I think his father was from England,I remember reading that some years ago maybe from Devon

No, you're thinking of Jembo! I think he lives in Devon.
He was born in London and moved to Birmingham as a child.

https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-strange-thing-i-am-his-fathers-son/

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Mellows Road , Finglas

(The road where I was born ).


Liam (William Joseph) Mellows was born in Lancashire, England in 1892, the son of British army officer, William Mellows. His mother, Sarah Jordan, was from near Castletown, County Wexford and Liam spent most of his childhood there with his grandfather, Patrick Jordan. Mellows became a nationalist and socialist at an early age, joining both Fianna Éireann and the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was one of the founding members of the Irish Volunteers. During the 1916 Rising, he led a Volunteer unit in Galway in a series of unsuccessful attacks on Royal Irish Constabulary After the insurrection failed, Mellows escaped to the United States, where he was arrested and detained on a charge of attempting to aid the German side in the First World War. He was released in 1918. During the Civil War, Liam Mellows and three other anti-Treaty prisoners were executed in Mountjoy in December 1922 as a reprisal for the assassination of Sean Hales, TD. Mellows is buried in Castletown cemetery, County Wexford where a commemoration takes place annually at his graveside.

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Sean McDermott Street.

Born in Leitrim, he emigrated to Glasgow in 1900 where he worked as a tram conductor, and from there came back to Belfast in 1902. A member of the Gaelic League, he was sworn into the IRB by Denis McCullough, and transferred to Dublin in 1908 where he managed the IRB newspaper Irish Freedom in 1910.
Although afflicted with polio in 1912, together with Tom Clarke, McCullough and Bulmer Hobson, McDermott (also known as Sean Mac Diarmada) is credited with revitalising the IRB, becoming a popular leader. After the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, he campaigned against Irishmen joining the British army, and was jailed under the Defence of the Realm Act.

In a speech at Tralee, Co Kerry he claimed: “The Irish patriotic spirit will die forever unless a blood sacrifice is made in the next few years.” MacDiarmada was said to be obsessively secretive in his planning, excluding many of his fellow IRB men from the Rising conspiracy. A signatory of the Proclamation and a member of the Provisional Government, he spent the Rising in the GPO. MacDiarmada was tried by court-martial and executed by firing squad at Kilmainham on May 12. He was unmarried.

http://www.easter1916.ie/index.php/people/a-z/sean-mcdermott/

Sean McDermott Street in Dublin is named after him, as is a railway station in Sligo and a GAA stadium in Carrick-on-Shannon.

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Heuston Train Station .

Sean Heuston .Early life

Heuston was born in Dublin on 21 February 1891 and educated by the Christian Brothers. He worked as a railway clerk in Limerick and while there took an active part in Fianna Éireann, of which he was an officer. Seán Heuston arranged for members who could not afford to buy their uniforms to do so by paying small weekly sums. Under his guidance the Fianna in Limerick had a course which encompass not only drilling, which was made up of signalling, scout training and weapons training but also lectures on Irish history and Irish classes.
Irish Volunteers and Fianna Eireann

In 1913 Heuston was transferred to Dublin Fianna, and was appointed to the Emmet Sluagh. He went on to join the ranks of the Irish Volunteers and played a prominent part in the Easter Rising He was Director of Training for Fianna Eireann as well as being Vice-commandant of the Dublin Battalion and Commander of the 5th company from August 1915 to Easter 1916.
Easter Rising

Heuston was the Officer Commanding of the Volunteers in the Mendicity Institution (now called Heustons Fort on the south side of Dublin city. Acting under Orders from James Connolly, Heuston was to hold this position for three or four hours, to delay the advance of British troops. This delay was necessary to give the headquarters staff time to prepare their defences. Having successfully held the position for the specified period, he was to go on to hold it for over two days, with twenty-six Volunteers. With his position becoming untenable against considerable numbers, and the building almost completely surrounded, he sent a dispatch to Connolly informing him of their position. The dispatch was carried by two Volunteers, P. J. Stephenson and Seán McLaughlin, who had to avoid both sniper fire and British troops across the city. It was soon after sending this dispatch that Heuston decided to surrender.
The Surrender
Sean Heuston Phoenix Park

Séamus Brennan, a member of the Mendicity Institution Garrison under Heuston, gave the following account of the decision to surrender:
“ Our tiny garrison twenty-six—had battled all morning against three or four hundred British troops. Machine-gun and rifle fire kept up a constant battering of our position. Seán visited each post in turn, encouraging us. But now we were faced with a new form of attack. The enemy, closing in, began to hurl grenades into the building. Our only answer was to try to catch these and throw them back before they exploded. Two of our men, Liam Staines and Dick Balfe, both close friends of Seán's were badly wounded doing this. We had almost run out of ammunition. Dog-tired, without food, trapped, hopelessly outnumbered, we had reached the limit of our endurance. After consultation with the rest of us, Seán decided that the only hope for the wounded and, indeed, for the safety of all of us, was to surrender. Not everyone approved but the order was obeyed and we destroyed as much equipment as we could before giving ourselves up...”
Prisoners

According to the statement given by Séamus Brennan to Piaras F. Mac Lochlainn, author of Last Words, the British troops were "infuriated when they saw the pygmy force that had given them such a stiff battle and caused them so many casualties".
“ They screamed at us, cursed us, manhandled us. An officer asked who was in charge and Sean stepped out in front without a word… We were forced to march to the Royal (now Collins) Barracks with our hands up, held behind our heads. In the Barracks we were lined up on the parade ground. Here we were attacked by British soldiers, kicked, beaten, spat upon. ”

Séamus Brennan never saw Seán Heuston again after being transferred to Arbour Hill Detention Barracks.
Court martial

Heuston had been transferred to Richmond Barracks, and on 4 May 1916, he was tried by court martial. On the Sunday, 7 May 1916, the verdict of the court martial was communicated to him that he had been sentenced to death and was to be shot at dawn the following morning.
Execution
Heuston railway station named in his honour in Dublin, where he once worked in the Traffic Manager's Office. (As is the nearby Seán Heuston Bridge).

Prior to his execution he was attended by Father Albert, O.F.M. Cap in his final hours. Father Albert wrote an account of those hours up to and including the Execution:
“ …We were now told to be ready. I had a small cross in my hand, and though blindfolded, Seán bent his head and kissed the Crucifix; this was the last thing his lips touched in life. He then whispered to me: ‘Father, sure you won’t forget to anoint me?’ I had told him in his cell that I would anoint him when he was shot. We now proceeded towards the yard where the execution was to take place; my left arm was linked in his right, while the British soldier who had handcuffed and blindfolded him walked on his left. As we walked slowly along we repeated most of the prayers that we had been saying in the cell. On our way we passed a group of soldiers; these I afterwards learned were awaiting Commandant Mallin; who was following us. Having reached a second yard I saw there another group of military armed with rifles. Some of these were standing, and some sitting or kneeling. A soldier directed Seán and myself to a corner of the yard, a short distance from the outer wall of the prison. Here there was a box (seemingly a soap box) and Sean was told to sit down upon it. He was perfectly calm, and said with me for the last time: ‘My Jesus, mercy.’ I scarcely had moved away a few yards when a volley went off, and this noble soldier of Irish Freedom fell dead. I rushed over to anoint him; his whole face seemed transformed and lit up with a grandeur and brightness that I had never before noticed. ”

Father Albert concluded:
“ Never did I realise that men could fight so bravely, and die so beautifully, and so fearlessly as did the Heroes of Easter Week. On the morning of Sean Heuston's death I would have given the world to have been in his place, he died in such a noble and sacred cause, and went forth to meet his Divine Saviour with such grand Christian sentiments of trust, confidence and love.

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What an unselfish thing to do a brave man RIP

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Cathal Brugha Street.

ONE of the first leaders of the Irish people to lose his life in the Civil War in 1922 was Cathal Brugha TD who for many years had been a key figure in the IRA, Sinn Féin and Conradh na Gaeilge.

Born in 1874 at 13 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Dublin and christened Charles William St John Burgess, he was educated at Dominic Street School and Belvedere College. He was an accomplished athlete in boxing, football, hurling, gymnastics – and even cricket.

The major change in his life came when he was inspired to take his place in the Irish Ireland movement. He joined Conradh na Gaeilge in 1899 and soon became a leading figure in the Keating Branch in Dublin which attracted many advanced nationalists. He changed his name to Cathal Brugha and became a fluent Irish speaker, deeply committed to the language.

In 1909, with the Lalor brothers, he established the candle manufacturers Lalor Ltd and in 1912 he married Kathleen Kingston of Birr, County Offaly. The following year he was one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers – Óglaigh na hÉireann. In July 1914, he took part in the landing of rifles for the Volunteers from The Asgard in Howth.

In Easter Week 1916, Cathal Brugha was second in command to Commandant Eamonn Ceannt in the South Dublin Union where some of the fiercest fighting of the Rising took place. Making a final stand as British troops closed in, Brugha received over 20 wounds and was almost given up for dead. But in the months following the Rising he made a remarkable recovery, although his ability to walk was permanently impaired.

As soon as he was able to move about again, Cathal Brugha resumed the reorganisation of the Volunteers and the campaign for the release of political prisoners. He helped ensure that the reorganised Sinn Féin adopted a republican constitution in 1917 and that the movement went into the 1918 general election on the basis of a manifesto seeking an Irish Republic. He planned to shoot the British Cabinet in Westminster if they enforced military conscription on Ireland. He was elected Sinn Féin TD for Waterford in 1918, being re-elected for Waterford/Tipperary East in 1921 and 1922.

Cathal Brugha chaired the inaugural meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House on 21 January 1919 which declared the independence of Ireland as a Republic. He was Minister for Defence in the Dáil Cabinet throughout the Black and Tan War. His priority was to ensure that the Volunteers were able to function throughout Ireland as the Army of the Republic.

Brugha saw no prospect of progress in the negotiations with the British Government which began in the summer of 1921. He was appalled by the Articles of Agreement signed in London on 6 December and spoke out against their acceptance by the Dáil. His Dáil speech has been criticised for the personal bitterness it displayed against Michael Collins. However, it also expressed the determined republicanism shared by many at the time who would never accept the Treaty. On the last day of the debate, Cathal Brugha told the Dáil:

“Why, if instead of being so strong, our last cartridge had been fired, our last shilling had been spent, and our last man were lying on the ground and his enemies howling round him and their bayonets raised, ready to plunge them into his body, that man should say - true to the traditions handed down - if they said to him: ‘Now, will you come into our Empire?’ - he should say, and he would say: ‘No! I will not.’ That is the spirit that has lasted all through the centuries, and you people in favour of the Treaty know that the British Government and the British Empire will have gone down before that spirit dies out in Ireland.”

After the Treaty split, Cathal Brugha worked to try to maintain the unity of the IRA but as the Free State Government became established and as British pressure on it increased, the slide to war accelerated. When the Free State Army bombarded the Four Courts with British guns on 28 June, Brugha volunteered to fight with the IRA’s Dublin Brigade.

Severely wounded by Free State fire in O’Connell Street, he was taken to the Mater Hospital. Cathal Brugha died two days later, on 7 July 1922.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/1916/thinkers-talkers-doers/cathal-brugha-a-very-complex-patriot-34267743.html

Inaugural meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House on 21 January 1919 – Cathal Brugha is seated in the centre

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Mallin Station, Dun Laoghaire

Michael Thomas Christopher Mallin 1 December 1874 – 8 May 1916) was an Irish republican, Socialist and devout Catholic who took an active role in the Easter Rising of 1916.
He was a silk weaver, the co-founder with Francis Sheehy-Skeffington of the Socialist Party of Ireland, and was second-in-command of the Irish Citizen Army under James Connolly in the Easter Rising, in which he commanded the garrison at St. Stephen's Green in Dublin. 1 December 1874 – 8 May 1916) was an Irish republican, Socialist and devout Catholic who took an active role in the Easter Rising of 1916.

Mallin was born in Dublin, the eldest of nine children of John Mallin, a carpenter, and his wife Sarah (née Dowling). The family lived in a tenement in the Liberties neighbourhood. He received his early education at the National School at Denmark Street.
When he was 15 he visited his uncle James Dowling, who was a member of the British Army as a pay sergeant, and was persuaded to enlist in the army as a drummer. Mallin's mother witnessed the murder of the Manchester Martyrs. According to his brother Thomas, their father was a "strong nationalist and he and Michael had many a political argumen

When Connolly was inducted into the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in January 1916, Mallin began preparing ICA members for the imminent armed revolution. In the week before the operation he communicated orders to the ICA members throughout the city. On Easter Monday, Mallin departed from Liberty Hall at 11:30 am to take up a position at St Stephen's Green with a small force of ICA men and women. Upon arriving at the park they ordered civilians out of it, dug trenches, erected kitchen and first aid stations, and built barricades in the surrounding streets. Constance Markievicz arrived and was originally thought to have been appointed Mallin's second-in-command, but later evidence pointed to this role belonging to Captain Christopher Poole, with Markievicz being third-in-command.

Mallin planned to occupy the Shelbourne Hotel, located on the north-east side of the park, but insufficient manpower prevented him from doing so. This would prove disastrous for the revolutionaries as British Army was subsequently able to occupy the upper floors of the hotel on Monday night.

Early Tuesday morning the British Army forces in the Shelbourne began firing down on the encamped rebels. Under intense machine gun fire, Mallin ordered his troops to retreat to the Royal College of Surgeons on the west side of the park. The garrison remained in the barricaded building for the remainder of the week. By Thursday it was cut-off from the rebel headquarters at the General Post Office (GPO) and running out of food and ammunition.

On Sunday 30 April 1916, just one week after the commencement of the Easter Rising and the declaration of the Irish Republic, Commandant Michael Mallin, Chief of Staff of the Irish Citizen Army was ordered to surrender his garrison at the College of Surgeons, St Stephen's Green. The order to surrender was signed by James Connolly and P.H Pearse, delivered to Mallin by Nurse Elizabeth O'Farrell.

After an intense week of fighting, exhausted and hungry Mallin wrote a note to his wife Agnes. The note was written on the inside of a used envelope that has been torn open at the sides. It read – "My darling wife all is lost. My love to all my children, no matter what my fate I am satisfied I have done my duty to my beloved Ireland, and you, and to my darling children. I charge you as their sole guardian now to bring them up in the national faith of your father, and of my faith, of our unborn child [may] God and his blessed Mother help you and it. I said all was lost, I meant all but honour and courage. God and his blessed Mother again guard and keep you my own darling wife".

Mallin obeyed the order and surrendered his position to Captain H. E. De Courcy-Wheeler, Staff Captain to General Lowe, acting Commander of British troops in Ireland. Mallin and the men and women under his command were arrested and taken prisoner. They were escorted first to Ship Street Barracks at Dublin Castle then on to Richmond Barracks, at Inchicore where Mallin was separated for court-martial. Mallin was court-martialled on 5 May, found guilty of treason and he was executed by firing squad in the stonebreaker's yard at Kilmainham Gaol at sunrise on 8 May 1916.

The summary trial by field general court-martial, an all-military court, was held in camera. There was no jury in the court, and no independent observers or members of the public were permitted to attend. The trial was hardly impartial, and there was certainly a significant conflict of interest in the selection of the president of the court

The trial lasted less than 15 minutes. The court president was Brigadier Ernest Maconchy and the other members of the court-martial were, Lieutenant Colonel A.M. Bent, and Major F.W Woodward. The prosecuting officer was Ernest Longworth, a commissioned officer in the Training Corps at Trinity College and a member of the Irish Bar. Mallin had no legal representation during the proceedings.

The principal witness for the prosecution was Captain De Courcy-Wheeler. His eye-witness account of the surrender is presented in his evidence to the court-martial ] and his first-hand account of the surrender and court-martial was presented in his memoir.
He stated to the court-martial that "the prisoner [Mallin] came forward…. saluted and said he wished to surrender ….and stated he was the Commandant of the garrison". Mallin didn't challenge Captain De Courcy-Wheeler. According to Wheeler, when Mallin was asked if he wished to question him, Mallin replied…No.

Furthermore, according to Capt. De Courcy-Wheeler, when Mallin was given leave to speak he used the opportunity to thank Capt. Wheeler for his courtesy during the surrender…. "[Mallin] I wish it placed on record how grateful my comrades and myself are for the kindness and consideration which Captain Wheeler has shown to us during this time".

The court president acknowledged the request and agreed that Mallin's expression of gratitude would be recorded in the court record. However, despite the promise made by the court president, Brigadier Maconchy, none of this was recorded in the court-martial record.

Mallin knew he was a condemned man and that nothing he could say to the secret court martial would alter that fact. It is a fallacy to suggest that Commandant Mallin denied his command and responsibility for his garrison.

It should be noted that the words in this court-martial record are the uncorroborated hand-written words of one man, the president of the court-martial and his words by his own admission "they are, in many cases, my own words". . Captain De Courcy-Wheeler's first-hand account of the court-martial identifies and confirms these significant and important omissions from the court-martial record.

The motives behind what would seem to be deliberate omissions from the trial record, and the statements ascribed to Mallin, would indicate that there were some old scores to settle with Mallin; not least from Mallin's former career in the British Army; and this was an opportunity to settle that score. This court-martial record in itself was a double edged sword designed to discredit Mallin and at the same time indict Countess Markievicz by providing evidence that would confirm her execution.

General Maxwell, newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of British Army in Ireland, had already expressed his own motives for wanting to execute Markievicz.

He considered her "bloody guilty and dangerous …a woman who forfeited the privileges of her sex …we can't allow our soldiers to be shot down by such like….Lord French agreed with Maxwell…personally I agree with you she ought to be shot".

The court-martial of Mallin presented Maxwell with the opportunity to place Markievicz in a commanding role and thereby strengthen his hand to execute her as a "ringleader of the rebellion" those guilty of cold blooded murder….a phrase frequently repeated by the Prime Minister Asquith and General Maxwell. However, Asquith insisted that no woman should be executed. Consequently, the sentence of death on Countess Markievicz was commuted to penal servitude for life by a reluctant Maxwell.

Mallin was executed by firing squad on 8 May 1916. The presiding officer at his court martial was Colonel EWSK Maconchy.[18] The night before his execution he was visited in his cell by his mother, three of his siblings, his pregnant wife and their four children.

In his last letter to his wife, who was pregnant with their fifth child, Mallin stated that "I find no fault with the soldiers or the police" and asked her "to pray for all the souls who fell in this fight, Irish and English."

He commented "so must Irishmen pay for trying to make Ireland a free nation." He wrote to his children 'Una my little one be a Nun, Joseph my little man be a Priest if you can, James & John to you the care of your mother make yourselves good strong men for her sake and remember Ireland'[19] Both Una and Joseph followed his wishes.[20][21] His funeral mass took place at the Dominican Church in Tallaght on 13 May 1916. People from the procession clashed with police outside the church with two policemen injured.


Mallin married Agnes Hickey, whom he had met during his early home service in the Army, in 1903. They had three sons and two daughters, the youngest born after Mallin's execution.

His youngest son, Fr. Joseph Mallin SJ, born on 13 September 1913 , was a Jesuit priest and teacher in Hong Kong. He was the last surviving child of those executed in the Rising until his death in Hong Kong on in April 2018 at the age of

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Pearse Street (Irish: Sráid an Phiarsaigh) is one of the longest streets in Dublin and varies in use along its length. It is named after the Irish revolutionaries, Pádraig Pearse and his brother William, who were born there. It was previously called Great Brunswick Street.

Its western end meets College Street near Townsend Street. Here, on the northern side, there is a Garda station, followed by the headquarters of the Dublin Fire Brigade with the Central Fire Station. The Trinity City Hotel is over and beside the fire station. Office buildings are on the southern side of the street, followed by Trinity College, Dublin. These offices of the Department of Social Protection are on the site of the Queen's Theatre, Dublin. Another building of note is (O'Neill's Pub) 37 Great Brunswick Street which dates from the 1850s and is still in the same ownership today.


The DART crosses Pearse street beside St. Mark's church, and east of that is the former Antient Concert Rooms where W. B. Yeats’ play The Countess Cathleen was first performed 8 May 1899 and James Joyce won an award for singing at the Feis Ceoil 16 May 1904. No. 43 is the former Erasmus Smith Commercial and Civil Service School, a bank and pub bracket the junction with Lombard Street, with Trinity College and the railway station and Goldsmith Hall opposite each other on Westland Row.

Further east along the street is the Pearse Street Public Library, which has the Gilbert Library and the City Archives on its first floor. The street then becomes residential, including Pearse Square, until it reaches McMahon Bridge at Grand Canal Dock, where numerous high-tech offices and high-rise apartment buildings in an area dubbed Silicon Docks can be found. The street is then named Ringsend Road, and later Bridge Street around Ringsend Bridge on its continuation into Dublin 4. Tutuapp 9apps Showbox

The Cuban embassy is located there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearse_Street

hi ,
most locals of Dublin know about the road and its area.

At the point when, what's more, in what setting was it renamed as Pearse Street ?

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Must not forget the boul oul O'Rahilly The O'Rahilly....O'Rahilly Parade off Moore Street.

‘Written after I was shot. Darling Nancy I was shot leading a rush up Moore Street and took refuge in a doorway. While I was there I heard the men pointing out where I was and made a bolt for the laneway I am in now. I got more [than] one bullet I think. Tons and tons of love dearie to you and the boys and to Nell and Anna. It was a good fight anyhow. Please deliver this to Nannie O' Rahilly, 40 Herbert Park, Dublin. Goodbye Darling.