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The Tom Clarke memorial project

The Tom Clarke memorial committee and the renaming of the East Link Bridge.

Tom Clarke illustration from the Club’s memorial committee page.
Tom Clarke illustration from the Club’s memorial committee page. Provided by the Club.

The committee sought a permanent Dublin memorial to Tom Clarke, a signatory of the 1916 Proclamation. It organised a City Hall seminar and campaigned to rename the East Link Bridge.

President Michael D. Higgins formally named the Tom Clarke Bridge on 3 May 2016, the centenary of Clarke's execution. The committee's earlier account also proposed a statue, with a site identified and permissions awaited. That undated account does not establish the proposal's present status.