Arbour Hill

Arbour Hill (Irish: Cnoc an Arbhair[1]) is an area of Dublin within the inner city on the Northside of the River Liffey, Dublin 7 postal district.

View of Arbour Hill Prison graveyard.

Arbour Hill, the road of the same name, runs west from Blackhall Place in Stoneybatter, and separates Collins Barracks, now part of the National Museum of Ireland, to the south from Arbour Hill Prison to the north, whose graveyard includes the burial plot of the signatories of the Easter Proclamation that began the 1916 Rising. St Bricin's Military Hospital, formerly the King George V Hospital, is also located in Arbour Hill.

Proclamation of the Irish Republic on the prison graveyard wall

As part of his commissioned symphonic work "Irishmen and Irishwomen", the composer Vincent Kennedy included a movement titled "Arbour Hill". This movement is a tribute to the Easter Rising participants buried at Arbour Hill.

References

  1. "Arbour Hill/Cnoc an Arbhair". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
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