Dublin's War Memorial Gardens - Nearly Unknown

Ireland's least favourite monument, seldom used for its original purpose ... but a good place for a stroll. This has to be the strangest history of them all - planned by Sir Edwin Lutyens immediately after the First World War to remember the 49,000 Irish war dead. But the process of construction was overtaken by political events and the successive governments of the Free State and the Republic did not show any enthusiasm at all for Dublin's War Memorial Gardens.