NARRATED BY JAMES Connolly’s great grandson James Connolly Herron, the third instalment of the Dubliners series tells the story of No.16 Moore Street, a building that is intricately tied into the events of the 1916 Rising.
The house, which is currently derelict, is the building where a large number of volunteers fled after the GPO was overrun by British forces. On April 30 1916, after a long stand-off the volunteers emerged from this building to hand themselves over to the British. They included five of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of Independence. Those men being – James Connolly, Padraig Pearse, James Plunkett, Thomas Clarke and Sean McDermott, all of whom, including the other two signatories, Eamonn Ceannt and Thomas MacDonagh, were later executed by the British.
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