The Graves at Arbour Hill

Description

Arbour Hill Cemetery in Dublin’s north inner city is the final resting place of the executed leaders of Ireland’s 1916 rebellion, known as the Easter Rising. Their bodies were put into an unmarked pit and covered with quicklime, to prevent the graves becoming a site of pilgrimage for Republican sympathisers. The cemetery is now a place of remembrance for all those who have died for Ireland. In this setting, the military field drums build up until they evaporate into the dust of an eternal Irish wind.