Irish National War Memorial Gardens

Not to be confused with Garden of Remembrance (Dublin).

The Irish National War Memorial Gardens (Irish: Gairdíní Náisiúnta Cuimhneacháin Cogaidh na hÉireann) is an Irish war memorial in Islandbridge, Dublin, dedicated "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914–1918",[1] out of a total of 206,000 Irishmen who served in the British forces alone during the war.[2]

Central sunken rose garden
with a view of one of the pairs of granite bookrooms
Circular sunken rose garden
in side view, showing one of four granite bookrooms

The Memorial Gardens also commemorate all other Irish men and women who at that time served, fought and died in Irish regiments of the Allied armies, the British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and United States armies in support of the Triple Entente's war effort against the Central Powers.

  1. ^ Dúchas The Heritage Service, Visitors Guide to the Gardens, from the Office of Public Works
  2. ^ Fergus Campbell, Land and Revolution, Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891–1921, p. 196