St. Stephen's Green fountain in summer.

St. Stephen's Green is an inner-city public park in Dublin, Ireland. The park is within the city centre, adjoining the nearby shopping area of Grafton Street. Fountain in the center of St. ... Fountain in the center of St. ... For the Korean family name Park, see Korean name. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Shoppers on Grafton Street Grafton Street is Dublins principal shopping street, running from St. ...

The park is rectangular, surrounded on all sides by streets that once formed major traffic arteries through Dublin city centre, although traffic management changes implemented in 2004 have greatly reduced the volume of traffic. The new Luas tram system has one of its lines terminating next to the park. Line B, the Harcourt Street or Green line, begins on the western side of the park. Luas (Irish for speed), also promoted in the development stage as the Dublin Light Rail System, currently encompasses two unconnected on-street light rail lines in Dublin, Ireland. ... A Philadelphia PCC trolley car in 1965 Volkswagen Cargo-Tram in Dresden on a section of grassed track. ...

History

In medieval times, St. Stephen’s Green was a marshy commons on the edge of Dublin, used for grazing. In 1663, Dublin Corporation decided to enclose the centre of the common, and maintain it as open space, and to sell land around the perimeter for building. The park was enclosed with a wall in 1664. Dublin Corporation is the former name given to the city government and its administrative organisation in Dublin between the twelfth century and 1 January 2002. ...

St. Stephen’s Green was the site of public hangings in the 18th Century.

With the exception on modern replacements, most of the buildings on St. Stephen’s Green are built in the Georgian style, and date from the 18th and 19th Centuries.

In 1814, control of St. Stephen’s Green park passed to Commissioners for the local householders, who redesigned the layout, and replaced the walls with railings. Access was restricted to local residents. In 1877, Parliament passed an Act to reopen St. Stephen’s Green to the public, at the initiative of Sir A.E. Guinness, a member of the Guinness brewing family. He later paid for laying out the Green in approximately its current form, which took place in 1880. The Guinnesses had a mansion on the Green, Iveagh House, which now houses the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. Arthur Guinness Son & Co. ...

During the Easter Rising of 1916, a group of insurgents made up mainly of members of the Irish Citizen Army, under the command of Commandant Michael Mallin and his second-in-command Constance Markievicz, established a position in St. Stephen's Green. They confiscated motor vehicles to establish road blocks on the streets that surround the park, and dug defensive positions in the park itself. This approach differed from that of taking up positions in buildings, adopted elsewhere in the city. It proved to have been unwise when elements of the British Army took up positions in the Shelbourne Hotel, at the North East corner of St. Stephen's Green, overlooking the park, from which they could shoot down into the entrenchments. Finding themselves in a weak position, the Volunteers withdrew to the Royal College of Surgeons on the west side of the Green. Easter Proclamation, read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO at the start of the Easter Rising, 1916. ... The Irish Citizen Army, or ICA, was a small band of trained volunteers established in Dublin for the defense of worker’s rights. ... Michael Mallin (1874 - 8 May 1916) was an Irish rebel and socialist who took an active role in the Easter Rising. ... Constance Georgine Markiewicz (1868?1927), was an Irish politician and nationalist. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) is a Dublin based private medical institution, situated on St. ...

Park Layout

While the central park of St. Stephen's Green is one of three ancient commons in the city, its current layout owes much to the restorations of the 1800's (see History above). In England and Wales, a common is a piece of land over which other people -- often neighbouring landowners -- could exercise one of a number of traditional rights, such as allowing their cattle to graze upon it. ...

Map of Green with some key features: (A) Fusilier's Arch (B) O'Donovan Rossa (C) O'Connell Bridge (D) WolfeTone & Famine Memorial (E) Lord Ardilaun (F) Markievicz (G) Playground (H) Bandstand (I) 3 Fates

The grounds are roughly rectangular, measuring (approximately) 550 by 450 metres, and are centred on a formal garden. Image File history File links Map of Saint Stephens Green, Dublin, Ireland, with key features: A - Fusiliers Arch B - ODonovan Rossa C - OConnell Bridge D - WolfeTone & Famine Memorial E - Lord Ardilaun F - Markievicz bust G - Childrens playground H - Bandstand I - Three Fates File history Legend: (cur...

One of the more unusual aspects of the park lies on the north west corner of this central area - a garden for the blind with scented plants, which can withstand handling, and are labelled in Braille. PREMIER - first The braille system, named after Louis Braille, is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. ...

Further north again (and spanning much of the length of the park) is a large lake. Home to ducks and other water fowl, the lake is fed by an artificial water fall, spanned by O'Connell bridge, and fronted by an ornamental gazebo. Falcated Duck at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands centre, Gloucestershire, England Wildfowl or waterfowl, also waterbirds, is the collective term for the approximately 147 species of swans, geese and ducks, classified in the order Anseriformes, family Anatidae. ... Picture of Church Square Parks gazebo in Hoboken, New Jersey. ...

To the south side of the main garden circle is more open heath surrounding a bandstand, and often frequented by lunching students, workers and shoppers on Dublin's sunnier days. Heath comes from Old English hæð tract of wasteland, from Proto-Germanic *khaiþijo (cognate with Old Irish ciad; see also heather, heathen) refers to a wild meadow or open, unploughed country, see Heath (habitat). ... Categories: Buildings and structures stubs ...

Other notable features and include:

• the Fusilier's Arch (known to republicans as "Traitors Gate") at the Grafton Street corner which commemorates the Royal Dublin Fusiliers who lost their lives in Second Boer War.
• a group representing the Three Fates inside the Leeson Street gate (a gift from the German people in thanks for Irish help to refugees after World War II)
• a seated statue of Lord Ardilaun on the western end, facing the direction of the Guinness brewery, the source of his wealth (again, see History above)
• the Yeats memorial garden with a sculpture by Henry Moore
• a bust of James Joyce facing his former university at Newman House
• a memorial to the Fenian leader Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa near the Grafton Street entrance
• a bronze statue at the Merrion Row corner of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the nationalist leader of 1798
• a memorial to the great famine of 1845-1850 by Edward Delaney
• a bust of Constance Markievicz on the south of the central garden (see History above)
• a statue of Robert Emmet standing opposite his birthplace (now demolished) at No 124.
• the water source for the lakes in the park are fed from the Grand Canal at Portbello.

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Notable Addresses

Iveagh House on the South side was created from the joining of two earlier houses (numbers 80 and 81) by Benjamin Guinness in the 1860s. It was donated to the Irish State by the Guinness family in 1939, and now houses the main offices of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.

Also on the South side of St. Stephen's Green are Newman House (numbers 85 and 86, after John Henry Newman) and University Church. These are home to the Catholic University of Ireland, which was founded in the 19th Century. It is linked with University College Dublin, but is no longer active educationally in its own right. J H Newman age 23 when he preached his first Sermon John Henry Newman (February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890) was an English convert to Catholicism, later made a cardinal. ... University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin - more commonly University College Dublin (UCD) - is Irelands largest university, with over 20,000 students. ...

The Unitarian Church, Dublin, built in the Gothic revival style, is located on the West side of St. Stephen's Green. Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic revival was a European architectural movement with origins in mid-18th century England. ...

Also on the West side is the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (number 123), home to one of the Republic of Ireland's five medical schools. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) is a Dublin based private medical institution, situated on St. ...

Interior of St. Stephen's Green shopping centre.

On the West side, at the top of Grafton Street, is the St. Stephen's Green Shopping centre, built in October 1988. It was, at the time, Ireland's largest shopping centre. Its style was intended to represent a conservatory on the side facing the Green and to mirror the brickwork design of the opposing Gaiety Theatre on South King Street. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x864, 658 KB) View of the interior of St. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x864, 658 KB) View of the interior of St. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see mall. ... The Gaiety Theatre is a drama theatre on South King Street in Dublin, Ireland, near Grafton Street and St. ...

Opposite the shopping centre, forming an entrance to the park, is the Fusilier's Arch, erected in 1907. This commemorates members of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers killed in the Second Boer War. Fusilier was originally the name of a soldier armed with a light flintlock musket called the fusil. ... Official name The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Colonel-in-Chief HRH Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1908) Nicknames The Blue Caps The Dubs The Lambs The Old Toughs Motto Anniversaries Marches Slow: The British Grenadiers Saint Patricks Day Unnofficial: The Dublin Fusiliers Alliances Description Line Infantry regiment Creation...

On the North side of St. Stephen's Green, there are two clubs (originally gentlemen's clubs), the Hibernian United Services Club (number 8, closed in 2002) and the University and Kildare Street Club (number 17). This side of the Green also has the historic Shelbourne Hotel. A Gentlemens club is a members club, originally for male members of the English gentry. ...

Loreto College, St. Stephen's Green, one of Ireland's best-known fee-paying schools for girls, is located at number 53, on the East side of the Green.

St. Vincent's Hospital, now located in a suburb on the southside of Dublin, was formerly located in buildings on the East side of St. Stephen's Green and on Leeson Street.

Other Photos

Yeats memorial	Fates statue	Joyce bust	NE Corner
Fusiliers arch	Famine memorial	Wolfe Tone Statue

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External links

• Stephen's Green Shopping Centre Website
• Google maps satellite view
• A virtual walking tour of Stephen's Green