National Freedom Monument

detail of statue of the 'Children of Lir', Monument to National Freedom, by Oisín Kelly (17 May 1915 – 1981), symbolising rebirthand resurrection, 1971. Rotunda Gardens, Parnell Square, Dublin. In the Garden of Remembrance, commemorating freedom fighters from various uprisings, including: the 1798 rebellionof the Society of United Irishmen; the 1803 rebellion of Robert Emmet; the 1848 rebellionof Young Ireland; the 1867 risingof the Fenian Brotherhood; the 1916 Easter Risingof the Irish Volunteersand the Irish Citizen Army; the 1919-21 Irish War of Independenceof the 'Old' IRA. The site of the Garden is where the Irish Volunteers were founded in 1913, and where several leaders of the 1916 Rising were held overnight before being taken to Kilmainham Gaol.