On Saturday 30 July President Michael D. Higgins officially opened the Commemorative Tree Avenue in Dublin's Phoenix Park.
The avenue commemorates significant events in Irish history that took place between 1912 and 1922. This period was one of the most eventful in Ireland’s history from the campaign for Home Rule, through World War One and the Easter Rising of 1916 to the foundation of the Free State.
The Commemorative Avenue consists of 180 trees planted on the Furze Road in the Phoenix Park, as a living memorial in honour of those who lost their lives during the early period of the twentieth century.
