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[[Image:Bolands_mill.jpg|thumb|A modern picture of the remaining parts of Boland's Mill. It once employed thousands but now lies idle.]] | |||
'''Boland's Mill''' is an old flour mill building in the Grand Canal Dock area in [[Dublin]]s inner city. Once a beacon to the working class heartland of the city, it now stands idle and unused beside modern towerblocks where wealthy city dwellers live. Boland's Mill was a scene of the [[Easter Rising]], when [[Eamon De Valera]] was the commander. Accounts of De Valera's service in Boland's Mill are mixed, with some of the rebels claiming he was petrified and unable to even move, and with others claiming he was a competant leader. Nevertheless, Boland's Mill is regarded as an important timepiece of the cities old industrial past. | '''Boland's Mill''' is an old flour mill building in the Grand Canal Dock area in [[Dublin]]s inner city. Once a beacon to the working class heartland of the city, it now stands idle and unused beside modern towerblocks where wealthy city dwellers live. Boland's Mill was a scene of the [[Easter Rising]], when [[Eamon De Valera]] was the commander. Accounts of De Valera's service in Boland's Mill are mixed, with some of the rebels claiming he was petrified and unable to even move, and with others claiming he was a competant leader. Nevertheless, Boland's Mill is regarded as an important timepiece of the cities old industrial past. | ||
Revision as of 10:55, 13 August 2007
Boland's Mill is an old flour mill building in the Grand Canal Dock area in Dublins inner city. Once a beacon to the working class heartland of the city, it now stands idle and unused beside modern towerblocks where wealthy city dwellers live. Boland's Mill was a scene of the Easter Rising, when Eamon De Valera was the commander. Accounts of De Valera's service in Boland's Mill are mixed, with some of the rebels claiming he was petrified and unable to even move, and with others claiming he was a competant leader. Nevertheless, Boland's Mill is regarded as an important timepiece of the cities old industrial past.
The Mill is now destined to become an office/Hotel complex, despite some objections in the Republican and Academic community. [1]