IMG 5428-001-Moira House

Seen in Island Street in the Liberties, Dublin.

Sign reads: Moira House stood here for over 60 years before the top floor was knocked and it became the two storey Mendicity Institution that 28 Irish Volunteers occupied in Easter Week 1916 led by Sean Heuston, executed for his part in The Rising. The old Mendo was destroyed in the early 1950s.

The Mendicity Institution was a charity that worked to ease poverty and begging. Info on the history here: www.mendicity.org/history