At The Going Down Of The Sun

The memorial garden in Barrington Gardens at long last appears to be finished. The house on the corner of Donegall Road was knocked down in 2012 or 2013 and work began converting the waste ground into a memorial to local Great War casualties in late November 2023. See this entry for images from both November 2023 and October 2024.

Since 2024, three pillars have been added below the main board, one each for the 10th (Irish) Division, 36th (Ulster) Division, and 16th (Irish Division) – for the service of the three divisions, see The Cost Of War, We Are The Dead, and (for the particular story of John Meeke and Willie Redmond) Comrades In Arms – and an iron bench to the 36th has been placed below the crests of the YCV, Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Irish Fusiliers, and the Royal Irish Rifles on the side-wall to the left.

Silhouetted graveside mourners appear on either side of the main board and in the gates to the garden