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Book TitleMore than concrete blocks : Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories : 1900-40
Chapter TitleCase study : Fusiliers' Arch : St Stephen's Green : Dublin 2, 1907
Chapter Authorde Roiste, Natalie
Book EditorRowley, Ellen
PublisherDublin City Council ; University College Dublin ; Four Courts Press
ISBN9781902703442
Date2016
Volume1
Page(s)pp80-89
Contentphotos, text
Note(s)The Fusiliers' Arch at St Stephen's Green marked the Irish contribution to the British victory of the Second Anglo-Boer War. The memorial highlights Dublin's role as a colonial city and was referred to as "Traitor's Arch" by nationalists in pre-Independence Dublin.
Subject(s)war memorials ; parks ; arches ; colonial cities ; Neoclassical ; granite ; stonework
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