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Ireland is a predominantly Catholic country and Christmas plays an important role in religious aspects of Irish life, taking the place of the pre-Christian festival on the winter solstice. [4] The earliest account of the Christian celebration of Christmas in Ireland are from 1171, when the excommunicated King Henry II spent Christmas in Dublin.
This category relates to monuments and memorials sited in the island of Ireland as a whole, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
This category relates to monuments and memorials sited in the Republic of Ireland only. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
General war memorial [4] National Memorial Cork: Co. Cork: General war memorial; features a statue of Peter O'Neill Crowley [5] James Mountain Memorial Cork: Co. Cork: Young Irelander James Mountain [6] Garden of Remembrance Dublin: Co. Dublin: General war memorial [7] Fenian Men Memorial Tallaght: Co. Dublin: Fenians [8] O'Neill-Crowley ...
The memorial is dedicated to every person of Irish origin, without distinction on grounds of class, politics, allegiance or religious belief, who has died in Wales. Carfin, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. A Celtic Cross memorial unveiled by then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in the early 21st century. Glasgow. A memorial to the Irish and Highland ...
Laurence "Larry" Griffin (1880 – 25 December 1929 [1]) was an Irish postman who disappeared from the village of Stradbally, County Waterford on Christmas Day 1929. . Investigators concluded that Griffin visited a local pub after work where he was injured in a drunken altercation; he either died immediately from his injury or shortly afterwards in the adjacent Garda s
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The Garden of Remembrance (Irish: An Gairdín Cuimhneacháin) is a memorial garden in Dublin dedicated to the memory of "all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom". It is located in the northern fifth of the former Rotunda Gardens in Parnell Square , a Georgian square at the northern end of O'Connell Street . [ 1 ]