Georgian Dublin Rising

Across from St Stephen's Green, the beautifully restored Shelbourne Hotel had housed British snipers during the Rising.
Across from St Stephen’s Green, the beautifully restored Shelbourne Hotel had housed British snipers in 1916.

Often acclaimed as one of the most beautiful Georgian cities, Dublin has fine buildings and squares designed and erected between 1714, the first year of King George I’s reign, and 1830, When King George IV died. St Stephen’s Green, the largest of the Georgian squares at 22 acres, is a brisk 10-minute walk from the GPO and one of the major sites briefly occupied by the revolutionaries, who dug trenches against a ground attack. When British snipers took over the high floors of the Shelbourne Hotel on the north side of the Green, the insurgents had to fall back.

Rebels in St Stephen's Green and British snipers in the Shelbourne would cease fire so that the ducks could be fed.Rebels in St Stephen’s Green and British snipers in the Shelbourne would cease fire so that the ducks could be fed.