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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Daniel O'Connell | O'Connell Street 53.347725°N 6.259314°W |
1882 | John Henry Foley | ||||
William Smith O'Brien | O'Connell Street 53.348250°N 6.259538°W |
1870 | Thomas Farrell | Previously on D'Olier Street from 1870–1929 | |||
Sir John Gray | O'Connell Street 53.3485433°N 6.259705°W |
1879 | Thomas Farrell | ||||
James Larkin | O'Connell Street 53.349085°N 6.259963°W |
1980 | Oisín Kelly | ||||
Spire of Dublin | O'Connell Street 53.349803°N 6.260249°W |
2003 | Ian Ritchie Architects | ||||
Cú Chulainn | GPO, O'Connell Street 53.349334°N 6.261075°W |
1911 | Oliver Sheppard | Installed at the GPO in 1935 | |||
Father Theobald Mathew | O'Connell Street | 1893 | Mary 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 |
1911 | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | ||||
Cathal Brugha | O'Connell Street | ||||||
Mr. Screen | Lobby of Savoy Cinema, O'Connell Street | 1988 | Vincent 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Famine Great Famine |
Custom House Quay | 1997 | Rowan Gillespie | [4] | |||
World Poverty Stone UN International Day for the Eradication of World Poverty |
Custom House Quay | 2008 | Stuart McGrath | [4] | |||
Father Pat Noise memorial | O'Connell Bridge | 2004 | Unknown | [5] | |||
Two Women | Lower Liffey Street | [6] | |||||
Anna Livia The River Liffey |
Croppies Acre Memorial Park, Wolfe Tone Quay (since 2011) |
1988 | Éamonn 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 | 2008 | Martin 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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James Joyce | North Earl Street | 1990 | Marjorie Fitzgibbon | [9] | |||
Margaret Ball and Francis Taylor | Cathedral Street | 2001 | Conall McCabe | ||||
The Three Graces | Cathal Brugha Street | 1941 | Gabriel Hayes | ||||
The Wishing Hand | Marlborough Street | 2001 | Linda Brunker | [10] | |||
Talking Heads | Abbey Street | 1990 | Carolyn Mulholland | ||||
Chariot of Life | Abbey Street | 1982 | Oisín Kelly | ||||
James Connolly | Beresford Place | 1996 | Éamonn O'Doherty | [11] | |||
Universal Links on Human Rights Jails holding prisoners of conscience |
Amiens Street | 1995 | Tony O'Malley | [11] | |||
Battle of the Custom House Memorial | Memorial Road | 1957 | Yann Goulet | ||||
Scáthán | Store Street | 2007 | Robert McColgan | [12] | |||
Luke Kelly | Sheriff Street | 2019 | Vera Klute | [13] | |||
NC Iris | Mayor Square, IFSC, Dublin Docklands | 2006 | Vivienne 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 | 1999 | Don 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 | 1991 | Cathy Carmen | [16] | |||
Beds | Portland Row | 1993 | Fred Conlon | [17] | |||
Home | Buckingham Street | 2000 | Leo 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 | 2017 | Eimear Murphy | ||||
The Mariner | Maritime Sculpture Garden, Dublin Port | 1975 | John Behan | Made of scrap metal | |||
Hexagon (This could be it) | North Strand Bombing Memorial Garden (formerly in the National Botanic Gardens) | 2014 | Steven Doody | Made from weathered steel (COR-TEN) | |||
2 x stone plaques commemorating the opening of Spencer Dock | Royal Canal lifting bridge | 15 April 1873 | Unknown | 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Ag Crú na Gréine | Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street | 2003 | Jackie McKenna | [20] Enjoying the sun | |||
Easter Rising Memorial | Arbour Hill Cemetery | ||||||
The Healing Hands | Mater Plot/Berkeley Road | 2000 | Tony O'Malley | ||||
Four Masters Memorial | Mater Plot/Berkeley Road | 1876 | James Cahill | ||||
Children of Lir | Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square |
1966 | Oisín Kelly | ||||
Irish Volunteers memorial | Parnell Square East | 1960 | Werner Schurmann | ||||
Suzanne Walking in Leather Skirt | Parnell Square north | 2006 | Julian Opie | Two-sided animated LED display outside the Hugh Lane Gallery | |||
Let's Dance Memorial to the Miami Showband killings |
Parnell Square north | 2007 | Redmond Herrity | ||||
Brendan Behan | Royal Canal, Dorset Street | 2003 | John Coll | ||||
Peadar Kearney | Lower Dorset Street | ||||||
The Soldier War of Independence Memorial |
Blessington Street Park | 1939 | Leo Broe | ||||
Natural Histories | Blessington Street Basin | 1994 | Austin McQuinn | ||||
Éire 1798 Memorial | St. Michan's Park | 1903 | Unknown | ||||
Our Lady, Queen of Peace | Broadstone | ||||||
The O'Rahilly | O'Rahilly Parade | 2005 | Shane Cullen | ||||
Demolition Dave | Smithfield Luas stop | 2004 | James 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Edmund Burke | Trinity College 53.344574°N 6.259191°W |
1868 | John Henry Foley | ||||
Oliver Goldsmith | Trinity College 53.344381°N 6.259210°W |
1864 | John Henry Foley | ||||
William Lecky | Trinity College | 1904 | Goscombe John | ||||
George Salmon | Trinity College | 1911 | John Hughes | ||||
Campanile | Trinity College | 1853 | Charles Lanyon, Thomas Kirk |
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Sphere Within Sphere | Trinity College 53.343812°N 6.255903°W |
1982 | Arnaldo Pomodoro | ||||
Reclining Connected Forms | Trinity College | 1969 | Henry Moore | ||||
Cactus Provisoire | Trinity College | 1976 | Alexander Calder | ||||
The Double Helix | Trinity College | 2003 | Brian King | ||||
Chac Mool | Trinity College | 2015 | Sebastián | [21] | |||
Apples and Atoms Ernest Walton |
Trinity College 53.343575°N 6.252427°W |
2013 | Eilis O'Connell | [22] |
St. Stephen's Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Fusiliers' Arch Royal Dublin Fusiliers |
St Stephen's Green | 1907 | John Howard Pentland | [23] | |||
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa | St Stephen's Green | ||||||
James Joyce | St Stephen's Green | 1982 | Marjorie Fitzgibbon | [9] | |||
Lord Ardilaun | St Stephen's Green | 1891 | Thomas 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 | 1956 | Joseph Wackerle | [25] | |||
Lady Laura Grattan Font | St Stephen's Green North | 1880 | [26] | ||||
James Clarence Mangan | St Stephen's Green | 1909 | Oliver Sheppard | ||||
Standing Figure: Knife Edge W. B. Yeats memorial |
St Stephen's Green | 1961 | Henry Moore | ||||
Rabindranath Tagore | St Stephen's Green | 2011 | |||||
Rose Bowl | St Stephen's Green | 2006 | Sandra Bell | [27] | |||
Wolfe Tone | St Stephen's Green | 1967 | Edward Delaney | ||||
Great Famine Monument | St Stephen's Green | 1967 | Edward 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture | Merrion Square Park 53.340806°N 6.250545°W |
1997 | Danny Osborne | [20] | |||
Constance Lloyd Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial |
Merrion Square Park 53.340857°N 6.250486°W |
1997 | Danny Osborne | ||||
Dionysus Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial |
Merrion Square Park 53.340853°N 6.250590°W |
1997 | Danny Osborne | ||||
Michael Collins | Merrion Square Park | 1990 | Dick Joynt | [20] | |||
Joker's Chair Dermot Morgan |
Merrion Square Park 53.339917°N 6.248921°W |
2002 | Catherine Greene | [20] | |||
Éire sculpture | Merrion Square Park | 1974 | Jerome Connor | ||||
Bernardo O'Higgins | Merrion Square Park | 1995 | Francisco Orellano Pavez | ||||
Henry Grattan | Merrion Square Park | 1982 | Peter Grant | ||||
The Victims | Merrion Square Park | 1976 | Andrew O'Connor | ||||
National Memorial to Members of the Defence Forces Who Have Died in Service |
Merrion Square Park | 2008 | Brian King | ||||
Mother and Child | Merrion Square Park | 1985 | Patrick Roe | ||||
Tribute Head II | Merrion Square Park | 1983 | Elisabeth Frink | ||||
George William Russell (Æ) | Merrion Square Park | 1985 | Jerome Connor | ||||
Rutland Fountain | Merrion Square Park | 1792 | Francis Sandys |
Iveagh Gardens
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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John McCormack | Iveagh Gardens | 2008 | Elizabeth O'Kane | [28] | |||
Neptune x 2 | Iveagh Gardens | 1865 | Unknown | Two statues of Neptune Roman god of fresh water which are broken. The remains lie covered by undergrowth | |||
Unknown | Iveagh Gardens | 1865 | Unknown | 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 | 1865 | Unknown | Classical statue of female figure with half of left arm missing - likely Roman goddess | |||
Fountain x 2 | Iveagh Gardens | 1865 | Ninian Niven | ||||
Sundial | Iveagh Gardens | Unknown | Sundial at the centre of an ornamental hedgerow maze |
South Quays
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Matt Talbot | City Quay | 1988 | James 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 |
1999 | Dony MacManus | [11] | |||
Patrick Sheahan Memorial | Hawkins Street | 1906 | W.P. O'Neill | ||||
People's Island | Traffic island at junction of D'Olier Street and Westmoreland Street | 1988 | Rachel Joynt | ||||
Sunlight Chambers | Essex Quay 53.345289°N 6.267759°W |
1902 | Edward Ould | ||||
Wood Quay | Wood Quay | 2002 | Michael Warren | ||||
Viking Boat | Essex Quay | 1988 | Betty 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Thomas Moore | College Street | ||||||
Long Stone replica | College Street | 1986 | Cliodhna 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 | 1998 | Elizabeth McLaughlin | ||||
Harmony | Pearse Square, Pearse Street | 1998 | Sandra Bell | [11] | |||
Units of Potential | Pearse Street | 2011 | Alice Rekab | ||||
Táin Mosaic | Nassau Street | 1974 | Desmond Kinney | ||||
William Plunket | Kildare Street | ||||||
Leinster Lawn Cenotaph |
Leinster Lawn, Leinster House |
1923 | Raymond 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 |
1868 | John 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 |
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William Dargan | National Gallery, Merrion Street |
1853 | |||||
The Kiss | Earlsfort Terrace | 1989 | Rowan Gillespie | ||||
Lean | Earlsfort Terrace | 2017 | Caoimhe Kilfeather | ||||
An SpéirBhean | Windsor Place, Pembroke Street | 1990 | Robin Buick | Also called Sky Woman or Heavenly Woman | |||
Reflections | Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower | 1978 | Michael Bulfin | [32] | |||
Red Cardinal | Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower | 1978 | John Burke | [32] | |||
Catherine McAuley | Baggot Street Lower | 1994 | Michael Burke | [33] | |||
Birdy | Upper Mount Street | 1997 | Rowan Gillespie | ||||
Memories of Mount Street | Upper Mount Street | 1988 | Derek A. Fitzsimons | ||||
Easter Rising | Mount Street Bridge | [34]
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Patrick Kavanagh | Grand Canal | 1991 | John Coll | ||||
Overflow | Grand Canal Street | 1997 | Linda Brunker | [35] | |||
Grand Canal Square | Grand Canal Dock | 2008 | Martha Schwartz | ||||
Dodder Buoy | Grand Canal Dock | ||||||
More Equal | Grand Canal Plaza | 1999 | Eilis O'Connell | [36] | |||
Queen Maedbh | Burlington Road | 2004 | Patrick O'Reilly | ||||
Barge Horse | Herbert Place | 1999 | Maurice Harron | ||||
An Gallán Gréine[37] | Sean Moore Park, Ringsend | 1983 | Clíodna 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Henry Grattan | College Green | 1876 | John Henry Foley | ||||
Thomas Davis | College Green | 1966 | Edward Delaney | ||||
Four Angels Fountain Secondary piece to Davis Memorial |
College Green | 1966 | Edward Delaney | ||||
Crann an Óir | Central Plaza, Dame Street 53.344431°N 6.262783°W |
1991 | Éamonn O'Doherty | [38] | |||
Bronze Palm Tree seat | Temple Bar 53.345608°N 6.262580°W |
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 |
1988 | Jeanne Rynhart | ||||
Luke Kelly | South King Street | 2019 | John Coll | [13] | |||
Dublin Yeomanry Memorial | St. Andrew Street | ||||||
St Andrew | St. Andrew Street | 1803 | |||||
Phil Lynott | Harry Street | 2005 | Paul Daly | "The Ace with the Bass"[39] | |||
Veronica Guerin | Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle | 2001 | John Coll | ||||
Garda Memorial Garden | Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle | 2010 | Anna Dolan | ||||
Serpent Water Feature | Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle | 1994 | Killian Shurmann | ||||
Special Olympics | Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle | 2003 | John Behan | ||||
Benjamin Guinness | St Patrick's Cathedral | 1875 | John Henry Foley | ||||
Millennium Child | Christ Church Place 53.342802°N 6.271502°W |
2000 | John Behan | [40] | |||
Tree of Life | Peace Park, Christ Church Cathedral | 1988 | Leo Higgins, Colm Brennan |
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Liberty Bell | St. Patrick's Park | 1988 | Vivienne Roche | ||||
The Literary Parade |
St. Patrick's Park | 1988 | Colm Brennan, John Coll |
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Sentinel | Patrick Street | 1994 | Vivienne Roche | ||||
The Obelisk Fountain | Thomas Street | 1790 | Francis Sandys | ||||
Adult and Child Seat | St. Catherine's Park, Thomas Street | 1988 | Jim 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Lock Keeper | Ashtown - 10th lock, Royal Canal |
2007 | |||||
Eyes for You | Balgriffin | 2018 | Eileen 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 | 2011 | Paul Ferriter | ||||
Let the Life Flow Through | Ballygall | 1996 | Elizabeth 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 | 2009 | Kevin Atherton | Consists of a pair of stainless steel hemispheres sited in two different parts of Balcurris Park in Ballymun. | |||
Cathode/Anode | Ballymun - Main Street | 2005 | Andrew Clancy | [44] | |||
Misneach | Ballymun - Trinity Comprehensive School | 2010 | John Byrne | [45] | |||
Pisces | Chapelizod | ||||||
Moai sculpture | Clontarf - Clontarf Road | 2004 | Alejandro 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 | 1972 | Cecil King | ||||
Windsculpture | Clontarf - Clontarf Road / Alfie Byrne Road | 1988 | Éamonn O'Doherty | ||||
Dancing Couple Stardust fire |
Coolock - Stardust Memorial Park | 1993 | Robin Buick | [47] | |||
Family Unit 1 | Fairview - Fairview Park | 1988 | Joe Moran | ||||
Seán Russell | Fairview - Fairview Park | 2009 | Willie 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 |
2007 | Orla de Brí | ||||
The Spirit of Finglas | Finglas - village centre | 1991 | Leo 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 | 2013 | Robert 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 1970s | unknown | [50] | |||
The Mad Cow | Raheny / Clontarf - Saint Anne's Park Playground | 1996 | St. John Hennessy | [51] | |||
Tree of Life | Raheny - by Saint Anne's Park on Watermill Road | 2015 | Tommy 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 2000s | Cliodhna Cussen | Granite carved Winter Solstice Sunset marking stone and viewing bench |
Phoenix Park
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Wellington Monument | Phoenix Park | 1861 | Robert Smirke | ||||
Phoenix Column | Phoenix Park | 1747 | |||||
Papal Cross Pope John Paul II's visit to Ireland |
Phoenix Park | 1979 | Paschal Clarke | ||||
Memorial Cross Phoenix Park Murders |
Phoenix Park | 1883 | [53] | ||||
Seán Heuston | Phoenix Park | 1943 | Laurence Campbell | ||||
Plinth of former statue of George Howard | Phoenix Park | 1870 | Statue blown up in 1958 |
Farmleigh
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Convergence | Farmleigh | 2004 | Brian 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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De Rerum Natura | National Botanic Gardens | Plaque on ground at entrance from carpark | |||||
Between art and nature | National Botanic Gardens | 2001 | O'Connor | Alternative Latin title 'Inter artes et naturam' | |||
Socrates | National Botanic Gardens | [56] | |||||
Sepian Blue | National Botanic Gardens | 2007 | Nasser Azam | [57] | |||
Kingdom of Plants Arising | National Botanic Gardens | Michael Quane | [58] | ||||
Child and Ball Trough | National Botanic Gardens | ||||||
Craobh | National Botanic Gardens | 1995 | Gerard Cox | [59] | |||
Sensory Garden Sculpture | National Botanic Gardens | [60] | |||||
Two Women | National Botanic Gardens | ||||||
Chinese Lion | National Botanic Gardens | ||||||
Double Helix | National Botanic Gardens | 2013 | Charles Jencks | [61] |
Southside suburbs
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Proclamation group Proclamation of the Irish Republic |
Kilmainham Gaol | 2007 | Rowan Gillespie | ||||
Cross of Sacrifice | Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge | 1940 | Edwin Lutyens | [62] | |||
Stone of Remembrance | Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge | 1940 | Edwin Lutyens | [62] | |||
Freedom | AIB Bank Centre, Merrion Road |
Alexandra Wejchert | [63] | ||||
An Cailín Bán | Sandymount Strand | 2002 | Sebastián | ||||
W. B. Yeats | Sandymount Green | 1921 | Albert G. Power | ||||
Seamus Heaney | Sandymount Green | 2016 | Carolyn Mulholland | [64] | |||
Wave | Park West | 2001 | Angela 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 |
1960s | |||||
Arthur Morrison Monument | Donnybrook | 1838 | [66] | ||||
Who Made The World | Ballsbridge 53.328514°N 6.231763°W |
Cliodna Cussen | |||||
Horse (stallion) | Ballsbridge | 1984 | In the grounds of the Bewleys/Clayton Hotel | ||||
Bird | Herbert Park, Ballsbridge | 1990 | Eoin Byrne | ||||
Richard Crosbie | Ranelagh Gardens | 2008 | Rory Breslin | ||||
A Rhinoceros | Classon's Bridge, Milltown 53.307935°N 6.254403°W |
2002 | Unknown | [67] |
University College Dublin
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Noah's Egg | Veterinary building, UCD | 2004 | Rachel Joynt | ||||
Judgement | Sutherland School of Law, UCD | ||||||
Iphigenia | Restaurant Building, UCD | 1984 | Tom Glendon |
North County Dublin
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Spirit of the Air | Dublin Airport roundabout | 1991 | Richard Enda King | ||||
Hiroshima Memorial Sculpture | Dublin Airport | Vincent Browne | |||||
Mother and Child | Dublin Airport | ||||||
Eccentric orbit | Portmarnock Beach | 2002 | Rachel Joynt, Remco de Fouw |
[68] | |||
The Ammonite | Malahide Marina | 2000 | Niall O'Neill | ||||
St. Doulagh's Cross | St Doulagh's Church, Malahide Road | Early Medieval | Unknown | ||||
Séamus Ennis | Naul, Dublin | ||||||
Thomas Ashe | Hand's Lane, Regles, Lusk, Dublin | 2017 | Paul D'Arcy | ||||
Beehive huts | Balbriggan bypass near the Meath border | 2001 | Robert McColgan and Irene Benner[69] | Inspired by St. Molach, a beekeeper. | |||
Inverted Oil Rig | Father Collins Park, Clongriffin | 2012 | Alan 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 | 2012 | Douglas 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 |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Fiddler of Dooney | Stillorgan Shopping Centre | Imogen Stuart | [72] | ||||
Stillorgan Obelisk | Stillorgan | ||||||
William Orpen | Stillorgan | 2018 | Rowan Gillespie | [73] | |||
Blackrock Dolmen | Blackrock | 1987 | Rowan Gillespie | ||||
Blackrock Cross | Blackrock | 8th or 9th Century | unknown | ||||
St. Maelruan's Losset | Tallaght | Unknown but possibly ancient | Unknown | ||||
Killiney Hill Obelisk | Killiney Hill | 1742 | John Mapas | ||||
The Marker Tree[74] | Kingswood interchange, N7 | 2011 | Andreas Kopp | ||||
Cliabhan (cradle)[75] | Tymon Park, Tallaght | 2006 | Linda 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 | 2003 | Clodagh 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 |
Date | Artist / 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 | 1978 | Andrew O'Connor | [78] | |||
Archer II | Dún Laoghaire | Niall O'Neill | |||||
Commemorative Trees Stone | People's Park, Dún Laoghaire | ||||||
Mothership | Glasthule | 1999 | Rachel Joynt | ||||
Thus Daedalus Flew | Killiney Hill | 1986 | Niall 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] |
External links
See also
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