Children of Lir statue in the Garden of Remembrance, Dublin, by Oisín Kelly 1971

"The Garden commemorates freedom fighters from various uprisings, including:

    the 1798 rebellion of the Society of United Irishmen
    the 1803 rebellion of Robert Emmet
    the 1848 rebellion of Young Ireland
    the 1867 rising of the Fenian Brotherhood
    the 1916 Easter Rising of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army
    the 1919–21 Irish War of Independence of the Irish Republican Army

In 1976, a contest was held to find a poem which could express the appreciation and inspiration of this struggle for freedom. The winner was Dublin born author Liam Mac Uistín, whose poem "We Saw a Vision", an aisling style poem, is written in Irish, French, and English on the stone wall of the monument. The aisling (Irish pronunciation: [ˈaʃlʲɪɲ] "vision") form was used in eighteenth-century poems longing for an end to Ireland's miserable condition.

    "We Saw A Vision"

    In the darkness of despair we saw a vision,
    We lit the light of hope and it was not extinguished.
    In the desert of discouragement we saw a vision.
    We planted the tree of valour and it blossomed.
    In the winter of bondage we saw a vision.
    We melted the snow of lethargy and the river of resurrection flowed from it.
    We sent our vision aswim like a swan on the river. The vision became a reality.
    Winter became summer. Bondage became freedom and this we left to you as your inheritance.
    O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision."

Children of Lir statue in the Garden of Remembrance, Dublin, by Oisín Kelly 1971.

The statue in the distance.

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