List of public art in Dublin

This is a list of public art on permanent public display in Dublin, Ireland. The list applies only to works of public art accessible in a public space; it does not include artwork on display inside museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals and mosaics.

Public art in Dublin is a significant feature of the cityscape. The city's statues and other monuments have a long history of controversy about their subjects and designs, and a number of formerly prominent monuments have been removed or destroyed. Some of the city's monuments have nicknames, though many are not in popular use.[1][2]

North city centre

O'Connell Street

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Daniel O'Connell O'Connell Street

53.347725°N 6.259314°W / 53.347725; -6.259314
1882John Henry Foley
William Smith O'Brien O'Connell Street

53.348250°N 6.259538°W / 53.348250; -6.259538
1870Thomas Farrell Previously on D'Olier Street from 1870–1929
Sir John Gray O'Connell Street

53.3485433°N 6.259705°W / 53.3485433; -6.259705
1879Thomas Farrell
James Larkin O'Connell Street

53.349085°N 6.259963°W / 53.349085; -6.259963
1980Oisín Kelly
Spire of Dublin O'Connell Street

53.349803°N 6.260249°W / 53.349803; -6.260249
2003Ian Ritchie Architects
Cú Chulainn GPO, O'Connell Street

53.349334°N 6.261075°W / 53.349334; -6.261075
1911Oliver Sheppard Installed at the GPO in 1935
Father Theobald Mathew O'Connell Street 1893Mary Redmond Removed in 2014 to make way for the Luas extension. Restored in 2018 to new location near The Spire.[3]
Charles Stewart Parnell O'Connell Street

53.3525785°N 6.2614683°W / 53.3525785; -6.2614683
1911Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Cathal Brugha O'Connell Street
Mr. Screen Lobby of Savoy Cinema, O'Connell Street 1988Vincent Browne Previously on Hawkins Street, outside the Screen Cinema from 1988–2016.
Paweł Strzelecki Sackville Place 2015

North Quays

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Famine
Great Famine
Custom House Quay 1997Rowan Gillespie [4]
World Poverty Stone
UN International Day for the Eradication of World Poverty
Custom House Quay 2008Stuart McGrath [4]
Father Pat Noise memorial O'Connell Bridge 2004Unknown [5]
Two Women Lower Liffey Street [6]
Anna Livia
The River Liffey
Croppies Acre Memorial Park,
Wolfe Tone Quay (since 2011)
1988Éamonn O'Doherty Previously in O'Connell Street 1988–2001.
"The Floozie in the Jacuzzi"[7]
1798 Rebellion memorial Croppies Acre Memorial Park 1998
Flow North Wall, Dublin in front of Dublin Landings 2008Martin Richman Recalls the banded wrapping of the freight containers that would have been shipped into this part of the River Liffey. It was commissioned by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority in 2008 to animate the Bord Gáis above Ground Installation (AGI), which is in fact a depressurisation installation for the distribution of gas within the North Lotts area in the Docklands.[8]

City North East

This area of the city is bounded to the west by O'Connell Street, Parnell Square East, North Frederick Street, and Lower Dorset Street. To the north it is bounded by the Royal Canal, and to the south by the Liffey Quays. To the east it includes the North Wall.

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
James Joyce North Earl Street 1990Marjorie Fitzgibbon [9]
Margaret Ball and Francis Taylor Cathedral Street 2001Conall McCabe
The Three Graces Cathal Brugha Street 1941Gabriel Hayes
The Wishing Hand Marlborough Street 2001Linda Brunker [10]
Talking Heads Abbey Street 1990Carolyn Mulholland
Chariot of Life Abbey Street 1982Oisín Kelly
James Connolly Beresford Place 1996Éamonn O'Doherty [11]
Universal Links on Human Rights
Jails holding prisoners of conscience
Amiens Street 1995Tony O'Malley [11]
Battle of the Custom House Memorial Memorial Road 1957Yann Goulet
Scáthán Store Street 2007Robert McColgan [12]
Luke Kelly Sheriff Street 2019Vera Klute [13]
NC Iris Mayor Square, IFSC, Dublin Docklands 2006Vivienne Roche Commissioned by the National College of Ireland on their move to the IFCS. Built by Steel & Co. [14][15][11]
Bear Sculpture IFSC House 1999Don Cronin Part of a pair 'Bear and Bull'. Bull sculpture is in lobby on other side of building.
Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial Talbot Street 1997
Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial Parnell Street 2008
Summerhill Group Summerhill 1991Cathy Carmen [16]
Beds Portland Row 1993Fred Conlon [17]
Home Buckingham Street 2000Leo Higgins [18]
The Five Lamps
General Henry Hall Memorial
Amiens Street/North Strand c.1880 [19]
North Strand Bombing Memorial North Strand Road 1991
Sundial Mountjoy Square 1988 Polar Sundial and Tempus - is inscribed on it.
Mosaic tile and concrete tree Mountjoy Square There are two of these in the centre of the square and both were created by the nearby Pavee Point centre
Drop Maritime Sculpture Garden, Dublin Port 2017Eimear Murphy
The Mariner Maritime Sculpture Garden, Dublin Port 1975John Behan Made of scrap metal
Hexagon (This could be it) North Strand Bombing Memorial Garden (formerly in the National Botanic Gardens) 2014Steven Doody Made from weathered steel (COR-TEN)
2 x stone plaques commemorating the opening of Spencer Dock Royal Canal lifting bridge 15 April 1873Unknown Made from carved limestone

City North West

This area of the city is bounded to the east by O'Connell Street, Parnell Square East, North Frederick Street, and Lower Dorset Street. To the north and west it is bounded by the North Circular Road and to the south by the Liffey Quays.

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Ag Crú na Gréine Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street 2003Jackie McKenna [20] Enjoying the sun
Easter Rising Memorial Arbour Hill Cemetery
The Healing Hands Mater Plot/Berkeley Road 2000Tony O'Malley
Four Masters Memorial Mater Plot/Berkeley Road 1876James Cahill
Children of Lir Garden of Remembrance,
Parnell Square
1966Oisín Kelly
Irish Volunteers memorial Parnell Square East 1960Werner Schurmann
Suzanne Walking in Leather Skirt Parnell Square north 2006Julian Opie Two-sided animated LED display outside the Hugh Lane Gallery
Let's Dance
Memorial to the Miami Showband killings
Parnell Square north 2007Redmond Herrity
Brendan Behan Royal Canal, Dorset Street 2003John Coll
Peadar Kearney Lower Dorset Street
The Soldier
War of Independence Memorial
Blessington Street Park 1939Leo Broe
Natural Histories Blessington Street Basin 1994Austin McQuinn
Éire 1798 Memorial St. Michan's Park 1903Unknown
Our Lady, Queen of Peace Broadstone
The O'Rahilly O'Rahilly Parade 2005Shane Cullen
Demolition Dave Smithfield Luas stop 2004James Gannon Commissioned by the Railyway Procurment Agency to celebrate the life of demolition manager Dave Conway

South city centre

Trinity College

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Edmund Burke Trinity College

53.344574°N 6.259191°W / 53.344574; -6.259191
1868John Henry Foley
Oliver Goldsmith Trinity College

53.344381°N 6.259210°W / 53.344381; -6.259210
1864John Henry Foley
William Lecky Trinity College 1904Goscombe John
George Salmon Trinity College 1911John Hughes
Campanile Trinity College 1853Charles Lanyon,
Thomas Kirk
Sphere Within Sphere Trinity College

53.343812°N 6.255903°W / 53.343812; -6.255903
1982Arnaldo Pomodoro
Reclining Connected Forms Trinity College 1969Henry Moore
Cactus Provisoire Trinity College 1976Alexander Calder
The Double Helix Trinity College 2003Brian King
Chac Mool Trinity College 2015Sebastián [21]
Apples and Atoms
Ernest Walton
Trinity College

53.343575°N 6.252427°W / 53.343575; -6.252427
2013Eilis O'Connell [22]

St. Stephen's Green

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Fusiliers' Arch
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
St Stephen's Green 1907John Howard Pentland [23]
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa St Stephen's Green
James Joyce St Stephen's Green 1982Marjorie Fitzgibbon [9]
Lord Ardilaun St Stephen's Green 1891Thomas Farrell
Fianna Éireann memorial St Stephen's Green 1966
Robert Emmet St Stephen's Green 1916 (original)Jerome Connor
Tom Kettle St Stephen's Green 1919 (bust)
1927 (memorial)
Albert G. Power [24]
Constance Markievicz St Stephen's Green
Three Fates St Stephen's Green 1956Joseph Wackerle [25]
Lady Laura Grattan Font St Stephen's Green North 1880 [26]
James Clarence Mangan St Stephen's Green 1909Oliver Sheppard
Standing Figure: Knife Edge
W. B. Yeats memorial
St Stephen's Green 1961Henry Moore
Rabindranath Tagore St Stephen's Green 2011
Rose Bowl St Stephen's Green 2006Sandra Bell [27]
Wolfe Tone St Stephen's Green 1967Edward Delaney
Great Famine Monument St Stephen's Green 1967Edward Delaney
Anna and Thomas Haslam Memorial St Stephen's Green 1923
Louie Bennett and Helen Chenevix Memorial St Stephen's Green 1958

Merrion Square Park

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture Merrion Square Park

53.340806°N 6.250545°W / 53.340806; -6.250545
1997Danny Osborne [20]
Constance Lloyd
Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial
Merrion Square Park

53.340857°N 6.250486°W / 53.340857; -6.250486
1997Danny Osborne
Dionysus
Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial
Merrion Square Park

53.340853°N 6.250590°W / 53.340853; -6.250590
1997Danny Osborne
Michael Collins Merrion Square Park 1990Dick Joynt [20]
Joker's Chair
Dermot Morgan
Merrion Square Park

53.339917°N 6.248921°W / 53.339917; -6.248921
2002Catherine Greene [20]
Éire sculpture Merrion Square Park 1974Jerome Connor
Bernardo O'Higgins Merrion Square Park 1995Francisco Orellano Pavez
Henry Grattan Merrion Square Park 1982Peter Grant
The Victims Merrion Square Park 1976Andrew O'Connor
National Memorial to Members
of the Defence Forces Who Have Died in Service
Merrion Square Park 2008Brian King
Mother and Child Merrion Square Park 1985Patrick Roe
Tribute Head II Merrion Square Park 1983Elisabeth Frink
George William Russell (Æ) Merrion Square Park 1985Jerome Connor
Rutland Fountain Merrion Square Park 1792Francis Sandys

Iveagh Gardens

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
John McCormack Iveagh Gardens 2008Elizabeth O'Kane [28]
Neptune x 2 Iveagh Gardens 1865Unknown Two statues of Neptune Roman god of fresh water which are broken. The remains lie covered by undergrowth
Unknown Iveagh Gardens 1865Unknown Headless classical statue - likely Roman goddess on a granite plinth. Other similar statues are dotted around the park and are also in poor condition
Unknown Iveagh Gardens 1865Unknown Classical statue of female figure with half of left arm missing - likely Roman goddess
Fountain x 2 Iveagh Gardens 1865Ninian Niven
Sundial Iveagh Gardens Unknown Sundial at the centre of an ornamental hedgerow maze

South Quays

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Matt Talbot City Quay 1988James Power [11]
Merchant Seamen Memorial Sir John Rogerson's Quay
Admiral William Brown Sir John Rogerson's Quay 2006 [11]
The Linesman City Quay

53.347082°N 6.249143°W / 53.347082; -6.249143
1999Dony MacManus [11]
Patrick Sheahan Memorial Hawkins Street 1906W.P. O'Neill
People's Island Traffic island at junction of D'Olier Street and Westmoreland Street 1988Rachel Joynt
Sunlight Chambers Essex Quay

53.345289°N 6.267759°W / 53.345289; -6.267759
1902Edward Ould
Wood Quay Wood Quay 2002Michael Warren
Viking Boat Essex Quay 1988Betty Newman [29]

City South East

This area of the city is bounded to the west by Westmoreland Street, Trinity College, Grafton Street, St. Stephens Green West, and Harcourt Street. To the north it is bounded by the Liffey Quays, and to the south by the Grand Canal. To the east it includes Irishtown and Ringsend. Locations within this area with their own article subsections such as St. Stephen's Green are excluded.

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Thomas Moore College Street
Long Stone replica College Street 1986Cliodhna Cussen [30] The Steine of Long Stone (Ivar the Boneless' Pillar). The original Long Stone it replaced was located near this spot from around the 10th or 11th century and stood 12 to 14 feet high. It was removed in the early 18th century and its whereabouts are now unknown.
Constance Markievicz Townsend Street 1998Elizabeth McLaughlin
Harmony Pearse Square, Pearse Street 1998Sandra Bell [11]
Units of Potential Pearse Street 2011Alice Rekab
Táin Mosaic Nassau Street 1974Desmond Kinney
William Plunket Kildare Street
Leinster Lawn Cenotaph
Leinster Lawn,
Leinster House
1923Raymond McGrath A temporary structure was erected in 1923 on Leinster Lawn, this was replaced by this more modern version in 1950.[31]
Prince Albert Leinster Lawn,
Leinster House
1868John Henry Foley Companion piece to statue of Queen Victoria which stood outside Leinster House on Kildare Street side. See Past Public Art section below
Thomas Heazle Parke Natural History Museum,
Merrion Street
William Dargan National Gallery,
Merrion Street
1853
The Kiss Earlsfort Terrace 1989Rowan Gillespie
Lean Earlsfort Terrace 2017Caoimhe Kilfeather
An SpéirBhean Windsor Place, Pembroke Street 1990Robin Buick Also called Sky Woman or Heavenly Woman
Reflections Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower 1978Michael Bulfin [32]
Red Cardinal Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower 1978John Burke [32]
Catherine McAuley Baggot Street Lower 1994Michael Burke [33]
Birdy Upper Mount Street 1997Rowan Gillespie
Memories of Mount Street Upper Mount Street 1988Derek A. Fitzsimons
Easter Rising Mount Street Bridge [34]


Patrick Kavanagh Grand Canal 1991John Coll
Overflow Grand Canal Street 1997Linda Brunker [35]
Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Dock 2008Martha Schwartz
Dodder Buoy Grand Canal Dock
More Equal Grand Canal Plaza 1999Eilis O'Connell [36]
Queen Maedbh Burlington Road 2004Patrick O'Reilly
Barge Horse Herbert Place 1999Maurice Harron
An Gallán Gréine[37] Sean Moore Park, Ringsend 1983Clíodna Cussen "Sun Stone"

City South West

This area of the city is bounded to the east by Westmoreland Street, Trinity College, Grafton Street, St. Stephens Green West, and Harcourt Street. To the north it is bounded by the Liffey Quays, and to the south by the Grand Canal. To the west it is bounded by the South Circular Road.

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Henry Grattan College Green 1876John Henry Foley
Thomas Davis College Green 1966Edward Delaney
Four Angels Fountain
Secondary piece to Davis Memorial
College Green 1966Edward Delaney
Crann an Óir Central Plaza, Dame Street

53.344431°N 6.262783°W / 53.344431; -6.262783
1991Éamonn O'Doherty [38]
Bronze Palm Tree seat Temple Bar

53.345608°N 6.262580°W / 53.345608; -6.262580
Vincent Browne
Oliver St. John Gogarty and James Joyce Temple Bar
Sir William Temple Plaque Temple Bar/Temple Lane
Molly Malone Suffolk Street,
previously Grafton Street


53.343753°N 6.260939°W / 53.343753; -6.260939
1988Jeanne Rynhart
Luke Kelly South King Street 2019John Coll [13]
Dublin Yeomanry Memorial St. Andrew Street
St Andrew St. Andrew Street 1803
Phil Lynott Harry Street 2005Paul Daly "The Ace with the Bass"[39]
Veronica Guerin Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle 2001John Coll
Garda Memorial Garden Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle 2010Anna Dolan
Serpent Water Feature Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle 1994Killian Shurmann
Special Olympics Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle 2003John Behan
Benjamin Guinness St Patrick's Cathedral 1875John Henry Foley
Millennium Child Christ Church Place

53.342802°N 6.271502°W / 53.342802; -6.271502
2000John Behan [40]
Tree of Life Peace Park, Christ Church Cathedral 1988Leo Higgins,
Colm Brennan
Liberty Bell St. Patrick's Park 1988Vivienne Roche
The Literary Parade
St. Patrick's Park 1988Colm Brennan,
John Coll
Sentinel Patrick Street 1994Vivienne Roche
The Obelisk Fountain Thomas Street 1790Francis Sandys
Adult and Child Seat St. Catherine's Park, Thomas Street 1988Jim Flavin[41] Commissioned as part of the AIB sponsored Dublin Millennium

Sculpture Symposium 1988

Homeless Jesus Christ Church Cathedral Timothy Schmalz

Northside suburbs

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Lock Keeper Ashtown - 10th lock,
Royal Canal
2007
Eyes for You Balgriffin 2018Eileen MacDonagh Wicklow granite sculpture commissioned by Cairn Homes and Dublin City Council. it is circa 3m high and weighs 5 tonnes.[42]
Michael Cusack Ballybough/Clonliffe - Croke Park 2011Paul Ferriter
Let the Life Flow Through Ballygall 1996Elizabeth McLaughlin [43]
amaptocare Ballymun 2003-2006 (and ongoing)Jochen Gerz Participative arts project in which members of the public sponsored trees (around 635 in all) to be planted across all neighbourhoods of Ballymun during the regeneration of the area; a plaza and map monumental aspect has yet to be completed.
Another Sphere Ballymun 2009Kevin Atherton Consists of a pair of stainless steel hemispheres sited in two different parts of Balcurris Park in Ballymun.
Cathode/Anode Ballymun - Main Street 2005Andrew Clancy [44]
Misneach Ballymun - Trinity Comprehensive School 2010John Byrne [45]
Pisces Chapelizod
Moai sculpture Clontarf - Clontarf Road 2004Alejandro Pakarati Moai is the correct name for an Easter Island statue. Donated by the Government of Chile to the City of Dublin[46]
Realt na Mára
Mary, Queen of the Sea
Clontarf - Bull Wall, city end of North Bull Island 1972Cecil King
Windsculpture Clontarf - Clontarf Road / Alfie Byrne Road 1988Éamonn O'Doherty
Dancing Couple
Stardust fire
Coolock - Stardust Memorial Park 1993Robin Buick [47]
Family Unit 1 Fairview - Fairview Park 1988Joe Moran
Seán Russell Fairview - Fairview Park 2009Willie Malone Original stone statue 1951
Flags of the Easter Rising Finglas 2016
Liam Mellows Finglas 2019
The Nethercross Finglas - St. Canice's graveyard 9th century In current location since 1806[48]
Niche Finglas - Finglas Road

53.379986°N 6.288938°W / 53.379986; -6.288938
2007Orla de Brí
The Spirit of Finglas Finglas - village centre 1991Leo Higgins
Our Lady (Virgin Mary) Glasnevin - Our Lady's Park, Botanic Avenue unknown - Marian year 1954?
Howth Fishermens' Association Memorial Howth - Howth Harbour 1994
Realt na Mára
Star of the Sea[49]
Howth - Howth Fishing Pier 2013Robert McColgan
River Run Phibsborough - Phibsborough Public Library 'River Run' was designed by Dublin City Council Parks and Landscape Services to honour Dublin's designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. It is an element of a quote from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Grass Seed Raheny / Clontarf - Saint Anne's Park early 1970sunknown [50]
The Mad Cow Raheny / Clontarf - Saint Anne's Park Playground 1996St. John Hennessy [51]
Tree of Life Raheny - by Saint Anne's Park on Watermill Road 2015Tommy Craggs Carved out of a dead Monterey cypress[52]
Phoenix Folly Santry - Santry Regional Park
Luí-na-Gréine Sutton - Carrickbrack Road, near Sutton Strand Mid 2000sCliodhna Cussen Granite carved Winter Solstice Sunset marking stone and viewing bench

Phoenix Park

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Wellington Monument Phoenix Park 1861Robert Smirke
Phoenix Column Phoenix Park 1747
Papal Cross
Pope John Paul II's visit to Ireland
Phoenix Park 1979Paschal Clarke
Memorial Cross
Phoenix Park Murders
Phoenix Park 1883 [53]
Seán Heuston Phoenix Park 1943Laurence Campbell
Plinth of former statue of George Howard Phoenix Park 1870 Statue blown up in 1958

Farmleigh

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Convergence Farmleigh 2004Brian King commissioned to celebrate the accession of 10 new states to the EU in 2004[54]
Statue in Fountain Farmleigh carved carrara marble fountain with putti figures[55]
Farmleigh Tony Cragg
Éan Mór Farmleigh Breon O'Casey Part of a series of bird statues in bronze and wood
Remembering Farmleigh John Wiedman Inspired by a machine that made milk substitute for Air Force personnel stationed in Newfoundland, Canada
Hybrid Vigour Farmleigh James Gannon

Glasnevin Cemetery

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
O'Connell Tower Glasnevin Cemetery
Young Irelanders and Fenians Memorial Glasnevin Cemetery
Great War Monument Glasnevin Cemetery
Easter Rising Necrology Wall Glasnevin Cemetery 2016
Cross of Sacrifice Glasnevin Cemetery 2014
16th Irish Division Memorial Glasnevin Cemetery 2016
Great Famine Memorial Glasnevin Cemetery 2016
1916 Easter Rising Memorial St Paul's, Glasnevin Cemetery 2016

National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
De Rerum Natura National Botanic Gardens Plaque on ground at entrance from carpark
Between art and nature National Botanic Gardens 2001O'Connor Alternative Latin title 'Inter artes et naturam'
Socrates National Botanic Gardens [56]
Sepian Blue National Botanic Gardens 2007Nasser Azam [57]
Kingdom of Plants Arising National Botanic Gardens Michael Quane [58]
Child and Ball Trough National Botanic Gardens
Craobh National Botanic Gardens 1995Gerard Cox [59]
Sensory Garden Sculpture National Botanic Gardens [60]
Two Women National Botanic Gardens
Chinese Lion National Botanic Gardens
Double Helix National Botanic Gardens 2013Charles Jencks [61]

Southside suburbs

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Proclamation group
Proclamation of the Irish Republic
Kilmainham Gaol 2007Rowan Gillespie
Cross of Sacrifice Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge 1940Edwin Lutyens [62]
Stone of Remembrance Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge 1940Edwin Lutyens [62]
Freedom AIB Bank Centre,
Merrion Road
Alexandra Wejchert [63]
An Cailín Bán Sandymount Strand 2002Sebastián
W. B. Yeats Sandymount Green 1921Albert G. Power
Seamus Heaney Sandymount Green 2016Carolyn Mulholland [64]
Wave Park West 2001Angela Conner
Dublin Brigade IRA memorial Harold's Cross 1954 [65]
Robert Emmet Harold's Cross Road 2003 Erected by the Robert Emmet Association to commemorate his arrest at Palmer's House in 1803.
Éamonn Ceannt Éamonn Ceannt Park, Harold's Cross

53.322214°N 6.294121°W / 53.322214; -6.294121
1960s
Arthur Morrison Monument Donnybrook 1838 [66]
Who Made The World Ballsbridge

53.328514°N 6.231763°W / 53.328514; -6.231763
Cliodna Cussen
Horse (stallion) Ballsbridge 1984 In the grounds of the Bewleys/Clayton Hotel
Bird Herbert Park, Ballsbridge 1990Eoin Byrne
Richard Crosbie Ranelagh Gardens 2008Rory Breslin
A Rhinoceros Classon's Bridge, Milltown

53.307935°N 6.254403°W / 53.307935; -6.254403
2002Unknown [67]

University College Dublin

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Noah's Egg Veterinary building, UCD 2004Rachel Joynt
Judgement Sutherland School of Law, UCD
Iphigenia Restaurant Building, UCD 1984Tom Glendon

North County Dublin

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Spirit of the Air Dublin Airport roundabout 1991Richard Enda King
Hiroshima Memorial Sculpture Dublin Airport Vincent Browne
Mother and Child Dublin Airport
Eccentric orbit Portmarnock Beach 2002Rachel Joynt,
Remco de Fouw
[68]
The Ammonite Malahide Marina 2000Niall O'Neill
St. Doulagh's Cross St Doulagh's Church, Malahide Road Early MedievalUnknown
Séamus Ennis Naul, Dublin
Thomas Ashe Hand's Lane, Regles, Lusk, Dublin 2017Paul D'Arcy
Beehive huts Balbriggan bypass near the Meath border 2001Robert McColgan and Irene Benner[69] Inspired by St. Molach, a beekeeper.
Inverted Oil Rig Father Collins Park, Clongriffin 2012Alan Phelan As of September 2020, it has been removed from the lake and is in storage in the park.
M1 Poppies M1 Lissenhall exit to the R126 2012Douglas Mooney 5 wind moving solar powered lit-up poppies[70]
James Hans Hamilton Skerries, Dublin 1970 Hamilton Monument[71]

South County Dublin

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
The Fiddler of Dooney Stillorgan Shopping Centre Imogen Stuart [72]
Stillorgan Obelisk Stillorgan
William Orpen Stillorgan 2018Rowan Gillespie [73]
Blackrock Dolmen Blackrock 1987Rowan Gillespie
Blackrock Cross Blackrock 8th or 9th Centuryunknown
St. Maelruan's Losset Tallaght Unknown but possibly ancientUnknown
Killiney Hill Obelisk Killiney Hill 1742John Mapas
The Marker Tree[74] Kingswood interchange, N7 2011Andreas Kopp
Cliabhan (cradle)[75] Tymon Park, Tallaght 2006Linda Brunker Commissioned by Pact to commemorate their 50th anniversary and 50 years of adoption in Ireland. Pact is an independent Irish charity founded in 1952
Anne Devlin[76] Rathfarnham 2003Clodagh Emoe Erected by the Anne Devlin Commemoration Association. Life-size bronze statue of Anne Devlin, Robert Emmet's loyal friend and supporter.
Famine cross Ballinascorney c. 1850
Patrick Sarsfield Lucan, County Dublin c. 1790 [77]

Dún Laoghaire

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designer Type Designation Notes
Queen Victoria Fountain Dún Laoghaire
Capt. J. McNeil Boyd Obelisk Dún Laoghaire Harbour Royal St. George Yacht Club
George IV Obelisk Dún Laoghaire 1823 [78]
Christ the King Dún Laoghaire 1978Andrew O'Connor [78]
Archer II Dún Laoghaire Niall O'Neill
Commemorative Trees Stone People's Park, Dún Laoghaire
Mothership Glasthule 1999Rachel Joynt
Thus Daedalus Flew Killiney Hill 1986Niall O'Neill

Past public art

Image Title / subject Location Date Artist / designer Notes and references
George I Initially at Essex Bridge, later at the Mansion House 1722–1755,
1789–1922
John Nost Initially erected on Essex Bridge (now Grattan Bridge) in 1722, and removed in 1755. It was later re-erected in the garden of the Mansion House in 1789, where it stood until 1922. In 1937, it was sold to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, England, where it stands today.[79]
George II St Stephen's Green 1758–1937 John van Nost the younger Blown up on 13 May 1937, the day after the coronation of George VI.[80]
William of Orange College Green 1701–1928 Grinling Gibbons Damaged after explosion on anniversary of Armistice Day in 1928, and subsequently removed.[81] Melted down in 1946.
Sir Philip Crampton College Street 1862–1959 replacing the original Viking Long Stone John Kirk Collapsed in 1959 and subsequently removed. Nicknames included "The Pineapple" and "The Cauliflower".[82] It was subsequently replaced by Cliodhna Cussen's The Steine of Long Stone in 1986.
Griffith-Collins Cenotaph Leinster House, Kildare Street 1923–1939 George Atkinson Structure had become dilapidated and was removed in 1939. It was replaced in 1950 by current obelisk on Leinster Lawn (see above)[83]
The Market Cross The junction of High Street and Skinner’s Row (now Christchurch Place) near the city tholsel Early Medieval Unknown Its earliest confirmed identification is from a public punishment in 1571. The last remaining drawing of the cross is by John Simmons in 1776. It was then taken down sometime in the late 18th or early 19th century and its whereabouts are unknown.[84]
Queen Victoria Leinster House, Kildare Street 1904–1948 John Hughes Removed in 1948 as part of moves by the Irish State towards declaring a Republic, put on display in Sydney, Australia in 1987.[85][86]
Nelson's Pillar O'Connell Street 1809–1966 Francis Johnston,
William Wilkins,
Thomas Kirk
Blown up in 1966 on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. The head of Nelson's statue was rescued, and is currently on display in the Dublin City Library and Archive on Pearse Street[87]
William Blakeney O'Connell Street 1759–1782 John van Nost the younger Removed sometime before 1782[88]
Bowl of Light O'Connell Bridge 1953–1963 Erected to mark inauguration of An Tóstal festival. Flames of sculpture thrown into the Liffey in 1953. Remainder dismantled in 1963.[89][90][91]
Gough Monument Phoenix Park 1880–1957 John Henry Foley Blown up in 1957, it was later restored and re-erected in the grounds of Chillingham Castle, England, in 1990.[45][92]
George Howard Phoenix Park 1870–1956 John Henry Foley The statue was dislodged by a bomb in 1956 and moved to Castle Howard in Yorkshire. The pedestal remains in place as a memorial.[93]
Millennium Clock River Liffey March to August 1996
The Point Rocket Point Theatre 2006–?
Three Bears with Attitude North Wall Quay (3Arena) 2009–2017 Patrick O'Reilly Removed in 2017, current whereabouts unknown.[94]
Aspiration - Liberty Scaling the Heights Grand Canal Street 1995–2020 Rowan Gillespie Removed in 2020[95][96]

See also

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