Another POV

Our destinations today were the Arbour Hill gravesite of the executed rebel leaders and the reportedly excellent Rising exhibit at the General Post Office, downtown. 

Arbour Hill is a relatively small cemetery which sits in the shadow of a state prison, next to Collins Barracks. The grounds are grassy and ringed with trees with a broad concrete memorial in the center. Into the back wall is carved the Poblacht.

Leaving Arbour Hill, we discovered that line waits for both the Collins Barracks and GPO exhibitions were pretty long so we decided instead to view the nearby Sinn Fein-sponsored Rising exhibit at the Ambassador Theatre. Not sponsored by the government, the SF production is not free (15 euros each), but it is very well done. Even more emphasis is given to the important roles played by women in preparations for the rebellion and in the fighting and extended aftermath.

    The Ambassador, on Upper O'Connell

    Personal and day-by-day accounts

Done at the Ambassador we made a short hike up to the Garden of Remembrance dedicated "to all who gave their lives for the cause of Irish freedom" and then bought a pub lunch at Parnell's Heritage before catching the Lias and DART back to the Clayton. 

    Garden of Remembrance

    Parnell's Heritage

Tomorrow is our last day in Dublin. On Saturday morning we catch a RyanAir flight to Edinburgh.