Eyre Square (John F Kennedy Memorial Park)
About
Eyre Square is the civic heart at the top of the centre, officially renamed the John F Kennedy Memorial Park after Kennedy spoke here in 1963, though no local has ever called it anything but Eyre Square. It holds the Browne Doorway, a 17th-century stone arch salvaged from an old townhouse, and the rust-coloured Quincentennial Fountain, whose shape is meant to echo the brown sail of a Galway Hooker. The flags of the 14 Tribes fly along one side. It is the place you arrive into off the train and the place the whole city seems to pass through.
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Highlights
- ✓The Browne Doorway, a 17th-century stone arch
- ✓The Quincentennial Fountain echoing a Galway Hooker sail
- ✓The flags of the 14 Tribes
- ✓Where Kennedy spoke in 1963
Tips
- →It is a two-minute walk from the train and bus stations.
- →The Christmas Market fills the square from mid-November.
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