Within this park once stood
Newgate Prison
Associated in dark and evil days
with the doing to death of confessors of Irish Liberty,
who gave their lives to vindicate
their countries right to
National Independence.
This memorial is erected
to perpetuate their memory,
to honour their motives and
to inculcate a grateful reverence
in Irish minds
for sacrifices thus nobly made for freedom
and to proclaim Ireland’s fidelity
to the principles of the men
whose names are hereon inscribed
in the belief that
these will yet redeem
and regenerate our fatherland
from subjection.
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