‘Mrs Brown’ backs campaign to save Moore Street 1916 site

COMEDIAN BRENDAN O’CARROLL and wife Jenny Gibney have given their support to the campaign to save the 1916 historic site of Moore Street from commercial redevelopment. “Letting Moore Street go would be like knocking down Kilmainham Jail,” the couple say.

14 to 17 Moore Street were last headquarters of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic at Easter 1916.

James Connolly’s great-grandson, James Connolly Heron, spokesperson for the Save 16 Moore Street Campaign Committee, says:

“The area historically is ‘beyond price’, according to the Imperial War Museum in London. Our National Museum describes it as ‘the most historic site in modern Irish history’.

“Despite this Moore Street is set to be destroyed and lost forever through public funding, courtesy of NAMA, to make way for a Celtic Tiger shopping centre development. Mrs Brown herself could not have made this up.”

➤  Gerry Adams with James Connolly Heron in Moore Street

❑  IN APRIL, Gerry Adams was joined on Easter Sunday by relatives of some of those who fought and died during Easter Week 1916 to officially launch Sinn Féin’s proposals to establish a revolutionary quarter around the buildings and lanes of history where the last act in the drama of the 1916 Easter Week took place.

Speaking at the National Monument at 14-17 Moore Street just before Sinn Féin’s Easter Rising commemoration in Dublin, the republican leader said:

“Sinn Féin is determined to ensure that 2016, the 1916 Centenary, is marked in the most appropriate way possible as a fitting, popular acknowledgement of the past but also – and just as importantly – as a pointer to a better future.”