Photo taken by Barry Lyons and posted on the Save 16 Moore Street Dublin page along with seasonal good wishes for supporters of the campaign. The deteriorating house in the photo is No.16 Moore St., one of the four houses (only) of the historic terrac given National Monument status by the state and owned (like most of Moore Street) by Joe OReilly of the Chartered Land property speculators. It is reputed to have been in the this house that the leaders of the GPO garrison participated in the final council of war that took the painful decision to surrender the forces in the 1916 Easter Rising but it was certainly from here that Elizabeth Farrell departed on her dangerous and bitter liaison meetings with the British commander. The house bears a small plaque of approximately 12 x 8, the only sign to bear witness that this house or any others in the terrace are of any historic import (a fact amazing to tourists from other lands when they learn of it). If the Chartered Land development of Moore St/ )building another and larger shopping centre through from OConnell St.) gets underway, the terrace will be demolished but this house and the other three will be given over to a cafeteria, toilets and a small museum, for which project Chartered Land have been granted €5 Million of NAMA money (though OReilly is already their biggest debtor at €2.8 BILLION). Meanwhile the deterioration of the buildings continue and planning blight settles on the street, closing business and reducing the number of street stall and all this is used as blackmail to permit the plan to go through. By the centenary of the Rising or if we are made to wait longer, the campaigners are determined to save the whole terrace and to see a historically-appropriate development of the whole terrace and in fact the whole quarter, with a viable and attractive street market as part of it. That is clearly the wish of the broad sections of people we meet at our weekly campaign stall in the street, it is the wish of people across Ireland and it is what tourists who have talked to us expect. We refuse to be bought or palmed off with anything less.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:30:17 +0000
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