Independence & After · event 9 of 15

1979

Wood Quay is concreted over. Twenty thousand people march to save the largest Viking site in Europe, uncovered during construction of the city’s civic offices. The offices are built anyway. It is the largest heritage protest in Irish history and it fails.

The Independence & After era

  1. 24 April 1916
  2. 3 May 1916
  3. 21 January 1919
  4. 6 December 1921
  5. 16 January 1922
  6. 1932
  7. 1963
  8. 1974
  9. 1979
  10. 1988
  11. 1995
  12. 2008
  13. 2015
  14. 2018
  15. 2020

See the full timeline or read the history of Dublin.