Lest We Remember? The Irish National War Memorial Gardens

Lest We Remember? The Irish National War Memorial Gardens

Alex Pomeroy | Lancaster University “I thought the Garden of Remembrance was to have been opened in November. I pray that ‘politics’ have not intervened”.  Sir Edwin Lutyens, designer of the Irish National War Memorial (INWM), to the planning committee, 4 December 1937.  In a sense, the delay was political; builder’s unions had been on strike in Dublin throughout 1937 and were the latest disruption to the opening of Ireland’s national memorial …