Dr. Mark Clinton:

Starting with the questionvis-à-visMoore Street, everybody knows the history that the focal of activity was in the GPO and, when that became untenable, the remnants of the rebels were in the building in Moore Street. Unless they had "Star Trek" facilities, they did not beam up out of the GPO and end up in this building on Moore Street. They obviously had to make their way along these back alleys and laneways, that are still there, which were very fraught with danger. They had no idea what they were going to run into. That would be a good example of a historical landscape, just like a battlefield, such as the one at Aughrim, where all the various forces were aligned and who moved where. On the Moore Street site the Deputy specifically raised, the interconnectivity between the GPO and Moore Street is part of the battlefield landscape and to exclude the laneways means asking how the hell they got from A to B, or A to C in this case, B being the laneways. In a case like that, the historical landscape includes the routes they took between the GPO and Moore Street.

On signage along the route, the laneways still have a bearing. I know them well and they are well known short-cuts on the northside.