Croppies Acre, Arran Quay – This park contains a memorial to the dead of the 1798 Rebellion & is thought to have been used as a mass grave for Irish rebel casualties (the rebels were called Croppies due to their short-cropped hair). While no evidence of human remains has been... 
found on the site, the Liffey was realigned through the area, which may have removed all trace of the bodies. The Memorial Park was designed and laid out in 1998. However, I now look upon this park differently ever since I listened to the fantastic @irishhistory podcast on the..
famine. Episode XIII tells how in 1847 the famed French chef Alexis Soyer advertised his new soup, which he claimed was cheaper but more nutritious, for the starving populace. This took place at Croppies Acre, in a grotesque spectacle that is hard to believe. Here, the elite of..
Dublin were charged 5 shillings to observe the feeding of the starving populace, who were paraded in like zoo animals. All of this taking place on the mass grave of the rebels of 1798. More info can be found in the amazing @chtmdublin blog tinyurl.com/yxk86tqc
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