In Dublin this morning morning a unique tour of the Moore Street 1916 Battlefield Site was hosted by the well known actor Adrian Dunbar. The tour was organised by the Moore Street Preservation Trust as part of the campaign to save Moore Street from the developers’ bulldozers. The terrace of houses from 10 to 25 Moore Street was occupied by the GPO garrison after it abandoned the blazing GPO on Friday evening April 28, 1916. Number 16 was the last headquarters of the leaders of the Rising. Seán MacDiarmada, Pádraig Pearse, Joseph Plunkett, James Connolly and Tom Clarke met and came to the reluctant conclusion that surrender was the only choice open to them to avoid further loss of life. Saturday’s tour will recall those historic events. As well as Adrian Dunbar, several actors playing the parts of Pádraig Pearse and Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, Honor Ó Brolcháin (a relative of Joseph Plunkett, one of the executed leaders) will tell the story of those tumultuous events as they walk the Battlefield site.
