Sinn Fein

The amount of the history of the creation of an independent Ireland that abounds in Parnell Square is overwhelming. To think of the men who walked those streets from Pearse to Collins the list stretches far and wide. The building in its current incarnation is the headquarters of Sinn Féin, but modern politics aside this building has been quintessential in 20^th Century Irish history, and really starting from the founding of the Volunteers in the 18^th Century.
The office served as the original Irish Volunteers headquarters and Pearse and his compatriots held their executive meetings here in the lead up to the Easter Rising. In the 1920s the building was renamed the Kevin Barry Memorial Hall, after the young medical student who was killed in Dublin, and who is forever immortalised in song. From then on the building served as a meeting place for organisations like Saor Éire and prisoners groups, etc.