SIPTU supports Moore Street Preservation Trust plans
<p>SIPTU General Secretary, Joe Cunningham said: “The Moore Street battlefield site, is the most important memorial we have to the foundation of the Irish State, yet it is currently at risk, like so many other parts of our capital, from vulture funds and developers.”</p>
<p>“The history of our own union, SIPTU, is intimately linked to this site. One of the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation, James Connolly, was not only Commandant General of the Irish Republic’s forces in Dublin but Acting General Secretary of our Union. It was in Liberty Hall, still our headquarters today, that the Proclamation was printed and from which members of the Irish Citizen Army marched with their comrades in the Irish Volunteers to seize the GPO and initiate the Rising.”</p>
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