The Archaeology of 1916

14/02/2018

"Court rules Moore Street buildings are not 1916 national monument"

State appealed declaration by High Court that buildings were battlefield site

02/12/2016

Dublin City Council and project partners will host a free morning public seminar on The Archaeology of 1916' in the Wood Quay Venue on 14th December. The seminar starts at 9.15 am and finishes at 1.00 pm and all are welcome to attend. Booking is via www.eventbrite.ie.
The seminar will present results of an innovative archaeology project, which set out to discover the surviving historical landscape of Dublin City following the 1916 Rising. Archaeology and Built Heritage Ltd., a Smithfield-based consultancy undertook survey work using primary sources such as the witness statements collected from participants in the 1950s and the files of the Property Losses (Ireland) Committee. The survey team examined ten of the lesser known sites of the Rising in Dublin.
The project, funded by Dublin City Council, UCD and The Heritage Council, is an initiative between DCC Planning and Property Development Department and the UCD School of Archaeology.
For further information about this initiative please email [email protected].

04/10/2016

The 1916 battle for 25 Northumberland Road, a scene of blood and death in the prosperous, leafy suburbs of the south city - and the story of what happened in the weeks and months after... Aidan O'Sullivan reviews the evidence put forward by owner Michael Cussen for compensation https://thearchaeologyof1916.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/bullets-bricks-and-compensation-claims-1916-and-no-25-northumberland-road/

Northumberland Road is today a quiet, leafy, residential street leading to a bridge over the Grand Canal, over which there is a direct route into the centre of the city. For a couple of days over E…

30/06/2016

Some 1916 experimental archaeology from Marsh's Library!

20/06/2016

We haven't gone away you know! The Separation Women were perhaps more effective at putting down the rebellion in the Liberties than the British were. Eve Campbell tells it like it was ...
https://thearchaeologyof1916.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/like-french-revolution-furies-jacobs-fumbally-lane-and-the-other-women-of-1916/

During the Rising some of the most significant mobilisations of working class women in the city, were not undertaken as part of the Rising, but rather as protests against the Volunteers. The witnes…

20/06/2016

The Archaeology of 1916 Project, a collaborative project with Archaeology and Built Heritage (ABH), UCD School of Archaeology, and Dublin City Council, hosted a student poster exhibition, curated by Dr Neil Carlin, in the UCD Newman Building entitled “Remembering and Forgetting Revolution" exploring the visual and material commemoration of 1916 Easter Rebellion. There was also a spectacular collection of genuine and replica 1916 material presented by Claíomh, a Living History group with expertise in the subject. These are all part of our activities at the UCD Alumni Festival Saturday 18th June 2016, 10am-4:00pm, UCD Alumni

17/06/2016

The Archaeology of 1916 Project, a collaborative project with Archaeology and Built Heritage, UCD School of Archaeology and Dublin City Council, will host a student poster exhibition in the UCD Newman Building entitled “Remembering and Forgetting Revolution" exploring the visual and material commemoration of 1916 Easter Rebellion, alongside a spectacular collection of genuine and replica 1916 material presented by Claíomh, a Living History group with expertise in the subject. At UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology (see LOCATION MAP), we'll also have an open-day, where we'll have a Viking camp site with the Irish Living History group, Gael agus Gall, and our UCD Archaeologists will lead site tours and demonstrate ancient woodworking, textiles technologies and flint/stone working. These are all part of UCD School of Archaeology's activities at the UCD Alumni Festival Saturday 18th June 2016, 10am-4:00pm, To learn more, and to book tickets, see http://festival.ucd.ie

16/05/2016

Last week was the centenerary of the ex*****on of the leaders of the 1916 Rebellion. They were executed in the stone breakers' yard at Kilmainham Gaol.

Kilmainham was built in 1796 as a county gaol for Dublin and was in use as a place of detention until early 1924 apart from a brief period before 1916 when it was occupied by the British military. Restoration works were undertaken by volunteers in the 1960s and the first museum was opened on the site in 1966. It was not however brought into State care until 1988 and it is now one of the busiest tourist attractions in the city, if not the country. Today, we were lucky enough to get a fascinating private tour with Niall Bergin who manages the site, and our colleague on the project, Laura McAtackney, who has carried out extensive recording and research on the graffiti at Kilmainham which covers its walls.

13/05/2016

It's Friday the 13th and officially the first day of summer. We decided to get out of the office and visit the newly renovated Richmond Barracks in Inchicore. Dublin City Council, along with conservation architect Kevin Blackwood, has done an incredible job conserving the surviving barrack blocks.

Over 3,000 rebels were held here after the surrender in 1916. There were both men and women detained along with the signatories of the Proclamation who were court-martialed in the now-demolished Block J and condemned to death. The gymnasium now contains an interactive exhibition on 1916, focusing on the women involved in the Rebellion.

The Barracks were partially demolished for social housing and the remaining wings converted into a notorious Christian Brothers' School in the 1920s - there is a reconstructed classroom to mark this phase of the building's history.

The garrison chapel survives as the local Catholic church, and also worth a visit for the Harry Clarke windows and the roof structure, where another building has been converted and extended by the HSE as a Centre of Competence.

Despite its dark past, the latest chapter of the buildings' use is a tremendously positive one and testament to what can be achieved in building conservation when the highest quality of materials, craftsmanship and attention to detail are employed.

The exhibition in the conserved buildings opens to the public next month and is well worth a visit. It is just a stone's throw from Inchicore village and the Drimnagh Luas stop.

Our thanks to Dublin City Council for allowing us access. We had the place all to ourselves!

For more information: http://www.richmondbarracks.ie

10/05/2016

It's time we spoke about Moore Street. Moore Street is where the Rebellion ended and this project began.

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It’s time we spoke about Moore Street. Moore Street is where the 1916 Rebellion ended and this project began. At the beginning of Easter Week 1916, upon reading the proclamation of Ind…

06/05/2016

For today's fieldwork expedition, the Archaeology of 1916 team had a look some of the outposts from Jacob's biscuit factory and Saint Stephen's Green. We started out at DIT, the site of Jacob's, before heading south towards Camden Street to the sites of Delahunt's and Byrne's (occupied by Volunteers), Kelly's Corner (famously bombed by soldiers from Portobello Barracks), and onto Davy's on the canal (occupied by the ICA). We found some bullet holes and a whole lot of repaired brick!

05/05/2016

It's generally accepted (finally) that de Valera's H.Q. was in Boland's Bakery not the iconic Boland's Mills building we know today on the eastern side of Grand Canal Dock. So where was the bakery ... and does any of it still exist?
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Using the railway line as a vital artery, Eamon De Valera and 120 men of the 3rd Battalion thinly spread themselves across various outposts in the area surrounding Grand Canal Dock and Ringsend inc…