Wolfe Tone Park Community

Observations about the condition of the existing park and proposed DCC re-development.

Just some of the submissions regarding the latest DCC Design Proposal for the park.

Time : 2017-01-23 21:06:49
Remark : The north city centre area generally suffers from a lack of green space when compared to other areas of Dublin. I believe that a return to a more enclosed green space would be a great improvement to this area and an excellent amenity for the growing numbers of young children resident in the area....more

Time : 2017-01-23 14:32:26
Remark : Please restore the park to the way it was in the 90s. As this area of town has very little green space....more

Time : 2017-01-23 12:59:05
Remark : The lack of green public open space in our city is reaching critical levels. Recently there has been much focus on the physical and mental health benefits to residents and workers in urban settings where green public spaces are available and accessible. We run the risk of transforming, and not in a positive way!, our city into a concrete corporate space, with little regard for human need. The current proposals do not sufficiently address the question of adequate provision of green space in our city, please note adoption of benchmarks as per Fields In Trust in the current Dublin City Development Plan.
The current proposals do not seem to have sufficiently taken account of the fact that Wolfe Tone park is situated adjacent several inne...more

Time : 2017-01-23 10:03:37
Remark : It is remarkable to note that the area of Wolfe Tone Park has obviously become something undesirable to both locals and visitors alike. Such a new opportunity to recreate a space worthy of our lovely city and reintroduce more grass and greenery to the city centre. Fashionable design just does not work and the lamentable drive towards even more commercialism is to be discouraged. Surely the ethos of a park area is as a respite from the extraordinary volume of commercial activity which already exits within the city. Surely balance is required and it is necessary to promote the city as a living entity,not merely a commercial opportunity. Businesses have very little proper,positive impact on their immediate surrounding areas ,and it is not the...more

Time : 2017-01-23 01:11:56
Remark : Nothing in this design will solve any of the issues in and around the park; it appears that little has been learned from the experience of the past 16 years along Jervis Street. In fact, there appears to be less grass returned to the park, and more paving, than the 2001 reveal - that, by DCC admission, has failed.

The park needs to be a contained green space, respectful of its heritage. If the passing public are to respect the assets of Wolfe Tone Park, Dublin City Council needs to begin demonstrating respect and leadership.

Wolfe Tone Park is a public asset of enormous cultural and historical significance. Tourists visit the park in awe at the age of the openly accessible relics while disgusted too by th...more

Time : 2017-01-23 00:12:41
Remark : More green please! Keep the benches....more

Time : 2017-01-22 21:44:16
Remark : To whom it concerns,
I write as a former tenant of an office on Wellington quay, near the park. I have since vacated the city centre, for reasons including the low quantity and poor quality of public space in the city in general, and its parks in particular.

From Wolfe Tone Park, to Merrion Square, and elsewhere there is a clear trend of DCC to aggressively commercialise public space, in the case of Wolfe Tone Park, to the point of part privatisation.

The centre point of the new park, by location in plan, and other dominance, is to be the Tram Cafe. This structure, conceived by the knavery that brought our city so much worse, is ugly in every conceivable way. The park design fails to reorganise the dispara...more

Time : 2017-01-22 21:46:40
Remark : Dublin City Council are determined to make the city centre as unwelcoming and as uncomfortable as possible.
No green spaces, no where to sit or relax or just enjoy our city. Get in shop spend money and then please sod off and go home. The only wildlife that will be accommodated will be the pigeons and the junkies/drunks.
Like the developers of Ireland DCC wont be happy till they concrete over the whole city and homogenised every street till it all looks like some poxy out of town shopping centre in some poxy American city. The message is clear this city belongs to starbucks in the daytime and the scum at night , we as residents are just the mugs who pay St Tropez prices to live in what's slowly becoming a cess pit t hanks to DCC Te...more

Time : 2017-01-22 17:20:00
Remark : I believe that the lack of greenery in this area is extremely unhealthy for residents. Also while I agree with encouraging people to use public transport to access the city rather than drive, this should be done by making public transport cheaper with enhanced routes, not by removing parking spaces. It also needs to be bourn in mind that a huge number of people live in the city and these people need to be able to park their own cars within the vicinity of their homes. I'd be interested to hear Dublin City Council's suggestion on where a city resident should park when trying to move all of their belongings into or out of an apartment? Not all residents of the city are young, fully mobile, single adults; young families, elderly and physically...more

Time : 2017-01-22 01:57:44
Remark : Please stop this, we have plenty of concrete already. This is the Emerald Isle lets keep it that way....more

Time : 2017-01-22 21:50:37
Remark : i would like to see the tram cafe remove from wolfe tone park and also stop events in the park too with the loud music as it caused alot of noise to the residents in the area

and also the council need to do something about the anti social behavior in the wolfe tone park wit drug addicts fighting and also drug addicts/kids kicking the birds in the park and also the council needs to do something about the church nightclub wit the nightclub/beer garden to noisy wit loud music thumping all over the street and the council needs to put a end to it.
,br>there is students with skatebords and they get the skateboards and lift it up onto the seats when people is sitting down and its very noisey and these people dont care at all and we n...more

Time : 2017-01-22 21:49:46
Remark : I believe there is absolutely no need for more commercial sites in this part of the city.

The park is a desperately-needed zone where people can escape from the shops....more

Time : 2017-01-21 14:23:47
Remark : Within a 1km walk any direction from Wolfe Tone Square, there is NO green space for residents, workers or shoppers to take a break and sit in a beautiful green space - HOWEVER - south of the Liffey, the Grafton Street shopping area residents and users have beautiful St Stephens Green. This is a crying shame that clearly needs to be rectified. The current plan does not address this.Wolfe Tone Park needs to be a recognisably a park space rather than a commercial space for the DCC to make money with. The needs of locals, workers, shoppers should be put first not a very poor second. (In fact on Google maps - Wolfe Tone Park is referred to only as Wolfe Tone Square (as it is NOT a green space) - THIS IS NOT RIGHT...it needs to be green! We all n...more

Time : 2017-01-22 21:52:16
Remark : The park nowadays has become a horrible unused spot.

Seeing a picture of what it was before 2001, one wonders why would any decision makers doubt at all in bringing that glory back to the present, and capitalise on it....more

Time : 2017-01-20 23:45:14
Remark : New park proposal is terrible....more

Time : 2017-01-22 21:52:05
Remark : I would like Wolfe Tone Park to have a playground for kids like Stephen Green, Marrion Square, St Patrick Garden and many others.

It should have railings and consider different ages but more focus on small kids....more

Time : 2017-01-20 23:40:29
Remark : I would love to see the park be restored to what it looked like in the past. It could be such a great space if it hadn't been converted into a concrete jungle. I would love to see the park turned into a garden like it was before, it would be a much better use of the space than what has been planned for it....more

Time : 2017-01-22 21:48:43
Remark : Having lived in the area for over 15 years it's a shame to see how the once beautiful facility of the park has been constantly eroded to the half paved half dirt backyard it is today.

Gone are the native trees, lawns and railings which once formed the park and complemented the historic buildings it is surrounded by. If only the structure of the park had been protected as the buildings are.

Instead of being a landmark and area of beauty within a residential part of city it has been sadly transformed into a cold, open space which is no longer in keeping with its surroundings and seems to only serve commercial interests. The most recent development of a long term commercial structure in the form of the Tram Cafe appears set t...more

Time : 2017-01-22 21:51:49
Remark : I fail to see why DCC will not return this park to an actual park.

The cafe with its hideous neon lights is so offensive when you walk by at night time.

There is no comparison between the park as it was originally and everyone who lived and worked in the city used it. There is so little actual real green space anywhere near here and putting horrible metal planters sporadically around the City from Grafton St to Thomas Street does only adds obstacles and is not a substitute for actual green space.

The newly proposed park design is so so bad, lifeless, grey, cold, uninviting.

Cities all over the country are being given these sterile spaces with bad blue and led lighting, leaving no individuality just cr...more

About The Project

WolfeTonePark.com & WolfeToneSquare.com

Residents living around Wolfe Tone Park ('Jervis Park') have witnessed the demise of the area through neglect and mismanagement by Dublin City Council and event organisers. In particular, the re-development of the space in 2001 that retained only some of the original lawn area. The remaining lawn was removed after a month-long event in 2006.

The Wolfe Tone Park Community is committed to campaigning for the restoration of Wolfe Tone Park and surrounding streets for the benefit of local residents and visitors to the area.

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Wolfe Tone Park, c.1992

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Public Opinion

All comments from Dublin City Council website.

Peter Ray _{Mon, 7 Jul, 2014}
I agree with the comments regarding the changing of this bit of parkland greenery in the middle of the city , and regrettably being changed into a civic continental style piazza. What a shame !! Great memories of a childhood in more innocent times.

Patrick O'Reilly _{Fri, 27 Jun, 2014}
I was born on Capel Street in 1963 and played in this little park every day... We also played football on Wolf Tone Street and adjoining streets, we played handball in the handball alley on Green Street .... Wonderful and happy innocent days in north inner city Dublin.

Harriet Browne _{Thu, 16 Feb, 2012}
EEEEEK! It's an Incredibly bland looking space now, how was it allowed. Vanishing Dublin indeed. So great to see all these old photographs though.

Noel Douglas _{Mon, 29 Aug, 2011}
I used to love hanging out their [sic] its gone now what were they thinking.., paved over the graves.

So, what happened here?

1940: Churchyard was used as a playground, headstones removed to the south end of the yard.

1966, site developed as Wolfe Tone Memorial Park.

1998: International competition to re-design Wolfe Tone Memorial Park. Removal of playground, garden, perimeter headstones, and high defensive railings.

2006: DCC Remove remaining grass from the park.

2013: Spurious business initiative (BID) attempts to re-brand as "Wolfe Tone Square" in an effort to lower expectations of the space.

2015: The Jervis / Wolfe Tone Park Community reclaim the park.

Wolfe Tone Park (Square) Dublin, 1975

Wolfe Tone Park, 1975

Wolfe Tone Park (Square) Dublin, 2005

Wolfe Tone Park, 2005

Wolfe Tone Park (Square) Dublin, 2015

Wolfe Tone Park, 2015

Wolfe Tone Park (Square) Dublin, 2015

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Wolfe Tone Park (Square) Dublin, 2015

Wolfe Tone Park, 2017

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Wolfe Tone Park Community - Agenda

Wolfe Tone Park

Full Restoration of Wolfe Tone Park as a non-commercial green space (c.2017)

Protect the park from commercial targeting (on-going)

Protect the park from DCC/BID 'Tram Cafe' proposal

Monitor any proposals or plans for the park (on-going)

Protect park from 2017 DCC/BID 'Frankenstein' renovation (on-going)

Inclusion of Park Restoration in Dublin City Draft Development Plan 2016-2022 (16-Sept-15)

Prevent commercial vehicles from parking in the public space (21-Dec-15)

Secure the Park Status of Wolfe Tone Park (not Square) (21-Dec-15)

Prevent amplified music festivals taking place in the park (01-Nov-15)

Removal of DCC 'mobile' staff toilets from west side of the park (15-Oct-15)

Removal of BID/DublinTown kiosks from within the park (01-Oct-15)

Removal of commercial furniture from within the park (10-Nov-15)

Prevent Dublin City Council vehicles from vandalising old tombstones around the park (16-Sept-15)

Establish direct contact with DCC management regarding park condition & neglect (01-July-15)

The Battle Continues Over The Future Of Wolfe Tone Park

In recent months, the Wolfe Tone Park community has upped its campaign to have the cold, concrete space returned to its previous state: a pleasant, welcoming green oasis for the city. And so far, the group – which is made up of residents of the Wolfe Tone Street/Jervis Street area – has had some success. more »

Tone Deaf

After years of Dublin City Council (DCC) vandalism and neglect, its senior management has conceded that the current layout of Wolfe Tone Park has not worked, and redevelopment is being considered.
But are DCC capable of appropriately redeveloping the park; and, can they be trusted to? more »

A Community Group Struggles To Revive Wolfe Tone Park

Everyone agrees that Wolfe Tone Park needs a bit of TLC. Home to the council’s portable staff toilets, its hard, dull appearance does little to entice people in. Now, because of worries about its future, the local residents have formed the Wolfe Tone Park Community group. more »

Turn 'hostile' Wolfe Tone plaza into a park again, says councillor Mannix Flynn.

THE former park at Wolfe Tone Square should be restored as a green space featuring its ancient grave stones, a city councillor has argued. more »

Dublin anti-Bid drive claims 500 signatures against ‘double tax’ Petition attracts backing from local business.

Hundreds of businesses have signed a petition protesting the “double taxation” imposed by mandatory payments to the Dublin Business Improvement District (Bid) and seeking a means to leave the organisation. The BID, established in 2007 is branded “We Are Dublin Town”. more »

Park Life

Green spaces are often converted to ‘hard’ spaces as local authorities find them easier to maintain. Eyre Square and Wolfe Tone park are unfortunate manifestations of the tendancy. more »

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Observations about the condition of the existing park and proposed DCC re-development.

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Public Opinion

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All residents & concerned parties are welcome to contribute to the community.

PRIVACY: Your address is required to verify that you have an interest in the Jervis / Wolfe Tone St area.

Wolfe Tone Park Community - Agenda

The Battle Continues Over The Future Of Wolfe Tone Park

Tone Deaf

A Community Group Struggles To Revive Wolfe Tone Park

Turn 'hostile' Wolfe Tone plaza into a park again, says councillor Mannix Flynn.

Dublin anti-Bid drive claims 500 signatures against ‘double tax’ Petition attracts backing from local business.

Park Life