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]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() More images | Famine Great Famine | Custom House Quay | 1997 | Rowan Gillespie | [5] | ||
![]() | World Poverty Stone UN International Day for the Eradication of World Poverty | Custom House Quay | 2008 | Stuart McGrath | The Stone is inscribed with the words "Wealth and Poverty," along with the coordinates of Dublin and an excerpt from a poem by Seamus Heaney. The monument was commissioned by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). [5] | ||
![]() More images | Father Pat Noise memorial | O'Connell Bridge | 2004 | Unknown | [6] | ||
![]() More images | Meeting Place | Lower Liffey Street | 1988 | Jackie McKenna | Nicknamed "The Hags with the Bags" | ||
![]() More images | Anna Livia The River Liffey | Croppies Acre Memorial Park, Wolfe Tone Quay | 1988 | Éamonn O'Doherty | Previously in O'Connell Street 1988–2001. At Wolfe Tone Quay since 2011. "The Floozie in the Jacuzzi" [9] | ||
![]() More images | 1798 Rebellion memorial | Croppies Acre Memorial Park | 1998 | Edward Delaney | |||
![]() | 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. [10] | ||
Restless: Liffey Love | North Wall, Dublin | 2024 | Rhona Byrne | Benches made of recycled plastic recovered from the River Liffey. [11] | |||
![]() More images | Triumphal arch | George's Dock near river Liffey | 1813, repositioned 1998 | Unknown | Rusticated limestone ashlar arch built in 1813 and until 1998 stood in Amiens Street until it was relocated to the newly redeveloped Custom House Quay area in 1998. A plaque attached to the arch indicates that the arch was re-dedicated to Pat O'Shea for his community work and is dated April 2002. It is said to have originally been constructed to celebrate Wellington’s victory at the Battle of Salamanca and acted for many years as the principal entrance gate to Custom House Quay. |
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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![]() More images | James Joyce | North Earl Street | 1990 | Marjorie Fitzgibbon [12] | Nicknamed "The Prick with the Stick" [13] [12] | ||
![]() | Margaret Ball and Francis Taylor | Cathedral Street | 2001 | Conall McCabe | |||
| The Three Graces | Cathal Brugha Street | 1941 | Gabriel Hayes | |||
![]() More images | The Wishing Hand | Marlborough Street | 2001 | Linda Brunker [14] | |||
![]() | Talking Heads | Abbey Street | 1990 | Carolyn Mulholland | |||
![]() More images | Chariot of Life | Abbey Street | 1982 | Oisín Kelly | |||
More images | James Connolly | Beresford Place | 1996 | Éamonn O'Doherty [15] | |||
![]() More images | Universal Links on Human Rights Jails holding prisoners of conscience | Amiens Street | 1995 | Tony O'Malley [15] | |||
![]() | Battle of the Custom House Memorial | Memorial Road | 1957 | Yann Goulet | |||
| Scáthán | Store Street | 2007 | Robert McColgan [16] | |||
![]() More images | Luke Kelly | Sheriff Street | 2019 | Vera Klute [17] [15] | |||
![]() | NC Iris | Mayor Square, IFSC, Dublin Docklands | 2006 | Vivienne Roche [15] | Commissioned by the National College of Ireland on their move to the IFCS. Built by Steel & Co. [18] [19] | ||
![]() | Strong Striking Bear of Great Deeds | IFSC House | 1999 | Don Cronin | Part of a pair 'Bear and Bull'. Bull sculpture is in lobby on other side of building. | ||
Bull | IFSC House | 1999 | Don Cronin | Part of a pair 'Bear and Bull'. Bear sculpture outside the other side of building. | |||
![]() More images | Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial | Talbot Street | 1997 | Oisín Kelly | |||
![]() | Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial | Parnell Street | 2008 | ||||
![]() | Summerhill Group | Summerhill | 1991 | Cathy Carman [20] | Bronze work on Kilkenny limestone. It was commissioned by Dublin Corporation as part of the Per Cent for Art Scheme. The work invokes the history of the street, before its redevelopment when children would play on the street. | ||
![]() | Beds | Portland Row | 1993 | Fred Conlon | [21] | ||
![]() | Home | Buckingham Street | 2000 | Leo Higgins | [22] | ||
More images | The Five Lamps [23] General Henry Hall Memorial | Amiens Street/North Strand | c.1880 | George Smyth | |||
![]() | North Strand Bombing Memorial | North Strand Road | 1991 | ||||
![]() | Hexagon (This could be it) | North Strand Bombing Memorial Garden | 2014 | Steven Doody | Formerly in the National Botanic Gardens. Made from weathered steel (COR-TEN) | ||
![]() | 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 | ||
![]() | 2 x stone plaques commemorating the opening of Spencer Dock | Royal Canal lifting bridge | 15 April 1873 | Unknown | Made from carved limestone | ||
![]() | Metal Plaque and cross on ground commemorating Matt Talbot | Matt Talbot Court, Seán O'Casey Avenue 53°21′24″N6°15′18″W / 53.356750°N 6.255111°W | August 1971 | Unknown | Inscription reads "These flats have been named Matt Talbot Court to commemorate the servant of God Matt Talbot who for the last 25 years of his life lived in a single room in 18 Upper Rutland Street. This house with many others was demolished to make room for these flats. Its site is marked to the left of this plaque." |
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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![]() More images | Ag Crú na Gréine | Currently unknown | 2003 | Jackie McKenna | "Enjoying the sun" [24] | ||
![]() More images | Easter Rising Memorial | Arbour Hill Cemetery | |||||
![]() | The Healing Hands | Mater Plot/Berkeley Road | 2000 | Tony O'Malley | |||
![]() | Noyeks fire memorial | Parnell Street at junction with Kings Inn Street | |||||
![]() | Four Masters Memorial | Four Masters Park (former Mater Plot) | 1876 | James Cahill | |||
![]() | Church Street disaster memorial (1913) | Father Matthew Square off Church Street | 1913 | Art Nouveau style street lamp in the manner of Harry Clarke. | |||
![]() More images | 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 | ||
![]() More images | Let's Dance Memorial to the Miami Showband killings | Parnell Square north | 2007 | Redmond Herrity | |||
![]() More images | 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 | |||
![]() More images | Natural Histories | Blessington Street Basin 53°21′27″N6°16′14″W / 53.35754°N 6.270686°W | 1994 | Austin McQuinn | |||
![]() More images | Éire 1798 Memorial | St. Michan's Park | 1903 | Unknown | |||
![]() | Our Lady, Queen of Peace | Broadstone | unknown - Marian year 1954? | ||||
![]() | The O'Rahilly | O'Rahilly Parade | 2005 | Shane Cullen | |||
![]() | Demolition Dave | Smithfield Luas stop | 2004 | James Gannon | Commissioned by the Railway Procurement Agency to celebrate the life of demolition manager Dave Conway | ||
![]() | Utah teapot | Smithfield, Dublin | 2021 | Alan Butler | [25] | ||
Jerome Connor | Infirmary Road, Dublin 7 | Unknown | Bronze plaque overlooking phoenix park | ||||
![]() | Spiderweb Sculpture | Corner of Western Way and Mountjoy Street | 2003 | Kathleen O'Brien | An iron representation of a spiders webs affixed across the side of 53 Mountjoy Street. Commissioned by Dr Austin O’Carroll, whose GP practice used to be located inside the building. [26] | ||
![]() | The Hungry Tree | King's Inns Park | 20th Century | King's Inns Park staff | A London plane which has been allowed to partially consume an adjacent park bench over the decades. | ||
![]() More images | Dublin's Last Supper | The Italian Quarter (Bloom Lane) | 2004 | John Byrne | Depicting a modern-day re-enactment of Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper', Byrne added an 'Irish twist' by replacing the Biblical characters with a cast of local Dubliners that reflected a "changing society and the growing cultural mix in Dublin". [27] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() More images | Fusiliers' Arch Royal Dublin Fusiliers | St Stephen's Green | 1907 | John Howard Pentland | [31] | ||
![]() More images | Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa | St Stephen's Green | |||||
![]() More images | James Joyce | St Stephen's Green | 1982 | Marjorie Fitzgibbon | [12] | ||
![]() More images | Lord Ardilaun | St Stephen's Green | 1891 | Thomas Farrell | |||
More images | Fianna Éireann memorial | St Stephen's Green | 1966 | ||||
![]() More images | Robert Emmet | St Stephen's Green | 1916 (original) | Jerome Connor | See Robert Emmet (Connor) | ||
![]() More images | Tom Kettle | St Stephen's Green | 1919 (bust) 1927 (memorial) | Albert G. Power | [32] | ||
![]() More images | Constance Markievicz | St Stephen's Green | |||||
More images | Three Fates | St Stephen's Green | 1956 | Joseph Wackerle | [33] | ||
![]() More images | Lady Laura Grattan Font | St Stephen's Green North | 1880 | [34] | |||
![]() More images | James Clarence Mangan | St Stephen's Green | 1909 | Oliver Sheppard | |||
More images | Standing Figure: Knife Edge W. B. Yeats memorial | St Stephen's Green | 1961 | Henry Moore | |||
More images | Rabindranath Tagore | St Stephen's Green | 2011 | ||||
More images | Rose Bowl | St Stephen's Green | 2006 | Sandra Bell | [35] | ||
More images | Wolfe Tone | St Stephen's Green | 1967 | Edward Delaney | |||
![]() More images | Great Famine Monument | St Stephen's Green | 1967 | Edward Delaney | |||
![]() More images | Anna and Thomas Haslam Memorial | St Stephen's Green | 1923 | ||||
![]() | Louie Bennett and Helen Chenevix Memorial | St Stephen's Green | 1958 | The memorial is located at a garden for the blind, where the names of scented plants are labelled in braille [36] | |||
![]() More images | Eqyptian and Nubian noblewomen | Shelbourne Hotel, St Stephen's Green | 1867 | Mathurin Moreau | 4 statues outside the Shelbourne Hotel [37] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture | Merrion Square Park 53°20′27″N6°15′02″W / 53.340806°N 6.250545°W | 1997 | Danny Osborne | [24] | ||
![]() More images | Constance Lloyd Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial | Merrion Square Park 53°20′27″N6°15′02″W / 53.340857°N 6.250486°W | 1997 | Danny Osborne | |||
![]() | Dionysus Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial | Merrion Square Park 53°20′27″N6°15′02″W / 53.340853°N 6.250590°W | 1997 | Danny Osborne | |||
![]() More images | Michael Collins | Merrion Square Park | 1990 | Dick Joynt | [24] | ||
![]() More images | Joker's Chair Dermot Morgan | Merrion Square Park 53°20′24″N6°14′56″W / 53.339917°N 6.248921°W | 2002 | Catherine Greene | [24] | ||
![]() More images | Éire sculpture | Merrion Square Park | 1974 | Jerome Connor | |||
More images | Bernardo O'Higgins | Merrion Square Park | 1995 | Francisco Orellano Pavez | |||
![]() | Henry Grattan | Merrion Square Park | 1982 | Peter Grant | |||
![]() More images | The Victims | Merrion Square Park | 1976 | Andrew O'Connor | |||
More images | 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 | ||||
![]() More images | Tribute Head II | Merrion Square Park | 1983 | Elisabeth Frink | |||
![]() More images | George William Russell (Æ) | Merrion Square Park | 1985 | Jerome Connor | |||
![]() More images | Rutland Fountain | Merrion Square Park | 1792 | Francis Sandys |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() | John McCormack | Iveagh Gardens | 2008 | Elizabeth O'Kane | [38] | ||
![]() | 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 | ||
![]() | Venus | Iveagh Gardens | 1865 | Unknown | Nose has been broken off at some stage. | ||
![]() More images | Fountain x 2 | Iveagh Gardens | 1865 | Ninian Niven | |||
![]() | Sundial | Iveagh Gardens | Unknown | Sundial at the centre of an ornamental hedgerow maze | |||
![]() More images | Memorial to Human Rights Defenders | Iveagh Gardens | 2020 | Grafton Architects |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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| Matt Talbot | City Quay | 1988 | James Power | [15] | ||
![]() More images | Irish Merchant Navy Memorial | Elizabeth O'Farrell Park on City Quay | 1990 | ||||
![]() More images | Admiral William Brown | Sir John Rogerson's Quay 53°20′46″N6°14′22″W / 53.346040°N 6.239526°W | 2006 | [15] | |||
![]() | Gaswork | Sir John Rogerson's Quay 53°20′45″N6°14′08″W / 53.34591°N 6.235546°W | 2012 | John Kindness | Commissioned by Bord Gáis to commemorate the history of gas in Dublin [39] | ||
![]() More images | The Linesman | City Quay 53°20′49″N6°14′57″W / 53.347082°N 6.249143°W | 1999 | Dony MacManus | [15] | ||
![]() More images | 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 | |||
![]() More images | Sunlight Chambers | Essex Quay 53°20′43″N6°16′04″W / 53.345289°N 6.267759°W | 1902 | Edward Ould | |||
![]() More images | Wood Quay | Wood Quay | 2002 | Michael Warren | |||
![]() | Viking Boat | Essex Quay | 1988 | Betty Newman | [40] | ||
![]() More images | Various tiles in the sidewalk depicting replicas of Viking-era artefacts | Wood Quay | Rachel Joynt | Black granite, bronze and stainless steel. [41] |
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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![]() More images | Thomas Moore | College Street | 1857 | Christopher Moore | |||
![]() | Long Stone replica | College Street | 1986 | Cliodhna Cussen | [42] 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. | ||
![]() More images | Constance Markievicz | Townsend Street | 1998 | Elizabeth McLaughlin | Also show her cocker spaniel dog called Poppet. | ||
![]() | Harmony | Pearse Square, Pearse Street | 1998 | Sandra Bell | [15] | ||
![]() | Units of Potential | Pearse Street | 2011 | Alice Rekab | |||
![]() More images | Táin Mosaic | Nassau Street | 1974 | Desmond Kinney | |||
![]() More images | William Plunket | Kildare Street | 1901 | Hamo Thornycroft | [43] | ||
![]() More images | 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. [44] Four wreathed bronze plaques are inset in its base, three bear a low-relief profile of Griffith, Collins and O'Higgins. The fourth contains an inscription in Irish: "Do chum glóire Dé agus onóra na hÉireann". [a] | ||
Constance Markievicz | Leinster House | 1930s | Leo Broe | [45] | |||
![]() | Industry and Fame | Leinster House | 1908 | John Hughes | Originally part of the Queen Victoria statue which stood outside Leinster House on Kildare Street side. See Past Public Art section below. [45] Returned to Leinster House in 2001. | ||
![]() More images | 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. | ||
![]() More images | Thomas Heazle Parke | Natural History Museum, Merrion Street | |||||
![]() | William Dargan | National Gallery, Merrion Street | 1853 | ||||
![]() | The Kiss | Earlsfort Terrace | 1989 | Rowan Gillespie | |||
![]() | Lean | Earlsfort Terrace | 2017 | Caoimhe Kilfeather | Commissioned by the law firm Arthur Cox | ||
![]() | An SpéirBhean | Windsor Place, Pembroke Street | 1990 | Robin Buick | Also called Sky Woman or Heavenly Woman | ||
![]() More images | Reflections | Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower | 1978 | Michael Bulfin | [46] | ||
![]() More images | Red Cardinal | Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower | 1978 | John Burke | [46] | ||
![]() | Catherine McAuley | Baggot Street Lower | 1994 | Michael Burke | [47] | ||
![]() | Somewhere between Andromeda and Vulpecula: Sky Atlas | Percy Place, off Haddington Road 53°20′04″N6°14′39″W / 53.334452°N 6.244131°W | 2014 | Isabel Nolan | |||
![]() | Birdy | Upper Mount Street | 1997 | Rowan Gillespie | |||
![]() | Memories of Mount Street | Upper Mount Street | 1988 | Derek A. Fitzsimons | |||
![]() | Brian Friel and John B. Keane | Upper Mount Street 53°20′12″N6°14′36″W / 53.336593°N 6.243247°W | 1994 | Neil C. Breen | Previously the statues were inside the window of a nearby building. Moved outside c. 2017 | ||
![]() | Easter Rising | Mount Street Bridge | [48] | ||||
![]() | Carnac | Upper Leeson Street | 1979 | Bob Mulcahy | Granite abstract sculpture located on the traffic island. [49] | ||
![]() More images | Patrick Kavanagh | Grand Canal | 1991 | John Coll | |||
![]() | Overflow | Grand Canal Street | 1997 | Linda Brunker | [50] | ||
![]() | Grand Canal Square | Grand Canal Dock | 2008 | Martha Schwartz | |||
![]() | Dodder Buoy | Grand Canal Dock | |||||
![]() More images | More Equal | Grand Canal Plaza | 1999 | Eilis O'Connell | [51] | ||
![]() | Queen Maedbh | Burlington Road | 2004 | Patrick O'Reilly | |||
![]() | Barge Horse | Herbert Place | 1999 | Maurice Harron | |||
![]() | An Gallán Gréine [52] | Sean Moore Park, Irishtown | 1983 | Clíodna Cussen | "Sun Stone" | ||
![]() | Irish Mercantile Marine World War II memorial | Irishtown 53°20′16″N6°13′11″W / 53.337867°N 6.219618°W | 1984 | [53] | |||
![]() | William Ashford | Irishtown 53°20′22″N6°13′23″W / 53.339345°N 6.223015°W | 1893 | [54] | |||
![]() | James Joyce | Grounds of the Merrion Hotel | Rowan Gillespie | 2m high bronze statue titled Ripples of Ulysses | |||
![]() | Bláthú | South Bank House, Barrow Street | Sean Atmos | [55] | |||
![]() | Stone etched map of Dublin | Boland's Mills 53.3421° N, 6.2372° W | unknown |
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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![]() More images | Henry Grattan | College Green | 1876 | John Henry Foley | |||
![]() | Thomas Davis | College Green | 1966 | Edward Delaney | |||
More images | Four Angels Fountain Secondary piece to Davis Memorial | College Green | 1966 | Edward Delaney | |||
![]() More images | Crann an Óir | Central Plaza, Dame Street 53°20′40″N6°15′46″W / 53.344431°N 6.262783°W | 1991 | Éamonn O'Doherty | [56] | ||
![]() More images | Bronze Palm Tree seat | Temple Bar 53°20′44″N6°15′45″W / 53.345608°N 6.262580°W | Vincent Browne | ||||
![]() | Love Lane tiles | Crampton Court 53°20′41″N6°16′00″W / 53.344666°N 6.266604°W | 2014 | Anna Doran [57] | A selection of ceramic tiles with quotes about love and heartbreak, lyrics, poetry and Irish wit submitted by the public to the artist via social media. [57] | ||
![]() | Oliver St. John Gogarty and James Joyce | Temple Bar | |||||
![]() | Sir William Temple Plaque | Temple Bar/Temple Lane | |||||
![]() More images | Molly Malone | Suffolk Street, 53°20′38″N6°15′39″W / 53.343753°N 6.260939°W | 1988 | Jeanne Rynhart | Previously Grafton Street from 1988 to 2014 | ||
![]() More images | Luke Kelly | South King Street | 2019 | John Coll | [17] | ||
![]() | Dublin Yeomanry Memorial | St. Andrew Street | |||||
![]() | St Andrew | St. Andrew Street | 1803 | ||||
![]() More images | Phil Lynott | Harry Street | 2005 | Paul Daly | "The Ace with the Bass" [58] | ||
![]() | Why go Bald | Dame Lane, off South Great Georges Street 53°20′38″N6°15′51″W / 53.343972°N 6.264270°W | 1962 | An advertising sign for the Universal Hair and Scalp Clinic. It was restored in 1999. [59] [60] | |||
![]() More images | Veronica Guerin | Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle | 2001 | John Coll | |||
More images | Garda Memorial Garden | Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle | 2010 | Anna Dolan | |||
![]() More images | Serpent Water Feature | Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle | 1994 | Killian Shurmann | |||
More images | Special Olympics | Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle | 2003 | John Behan | |||
![]() More images | Homeless Jesus | Christ Church Cathedral | Timothy Schmalz | ||||
![]() More images | Millennium Child | Christchurch Place 53°20′34″N6°16′17″W / 53.342802°N 6.271502°W | 2000 | John Behan | [61] | ||
![]() | Tree of Life | Peace Park, Christ Church Cathedral | 1988 | Leo Higgins, Colm Brennan | |||
![]() | Liberty Bell | St. Patrick's Park | 1988 | Vivienne Roche | |||
![]() More images | The Literary Parade | St. Patrick's Park | 1988 | Colm Brennan, John Coll | |||
![]() More images | Benjamin Guinness | St Patrick's Cathedral | 1875 | John Henry Foley | |||
![]() More images | Sentinel | Patrick Street | 1994 | Vivienne Roche | |||
![]() More images | John Field | Golden Lane 53°20′26″N6°16′12″W / 53.34053°N 6.269918°W | |||||
![]() | Gulliver's Travels | 53-58 Golden Lane 53°20′27″N6°16′10″W / 53.34071°N 6.26954°W | 1996 | Michael C Keane | Eight terracotta plaques, or roundals, affixed to the second floor of a red brick building depicting scenes from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels , specifically the first part of the book, entitled 'A Voyage to Lilliput'. [62] Swift was Dean of nearby St Patrick's Cathedral. The works were commissioned by Dublin City Corporation, and awarded to Terry Cartin of Cartin Ceramics, whom Michael C Keane and Mo Maloney worked with "on many projects". [63] | ||
![]() More images | The Obelisk Fountain | Thomas Street | 1790 | Francis Sandys | |||
![]() | Adult and Child Seat | St. Catherine's Park, Thomas Street | 1988 | Jim Flavin [64] | Commissioned as part of the AIB sponsored Dublin Millennium Sculpture Symposium 1988 | ||
![]() | Mirror Granite | In the small unnamed triangular park between Kevin Street Lower and Kevin Street Cross 53°20′16″N6°16′08″W / 53.337747°N 6.268897°W | 1984 | Kevin Buckley | |||
![]() More images | Irish writers | The pavement in front of The Palace Bar on Fleet Street 53°20′45″N6°15′35″W / 53.34584°N 6.25960°W | 2011 | Jarlath Daly | Four bronze plaques dedicated to Irish writers (Flann O'Brien, Con Houlihan, Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh) set into the pavement in front of The Palace Bar | ||
![]() | Rory Gallagher | Rory Gallagher Corner, Temple Bar 53°20′43″N6°15′56″W / 53.34531°N 6.26543°W | A life-size bronze statue in the shape of Gallagher's Fender Stratocaster guitar | ||||
![]() More images | Local businesses and trades in 1989 | Temple Bar 53°20′45″N6°15′46″W / 53.34573°N 6.26285°W | 1989 | Rachel Joynt | Fifteen pieces of work embedded, or etched, into the pavement. "They include various designs sandblasted into the granite kerbstones on-site by the artist. Each design represents a business which was located nearby at the time; however some of these businesses are no longer here. The work includes a set of hoof prints leading to the Bad Ass Café; a fishing rod outside Rory's Fishing Tackle shop; a foot outside Leo Burdock's, which used to be a shoe shop; a bracelet outside No. 5, which used to be a bead shop; and an elephant outside No. 15, which used to be Rudyard's restaurant." [65] | ||
![]() | The Green Machine | The Green Building, Crow Street, Temple Bar 53°20′41″N6°15′50″W / 53.34467°N 6.26381°W | 1994 | Remco de Fouw | One of the doors to the Green Building, an environmentally friendly urban building. de Fouw fashioned a "self-watering tree" into the door, made from recycled copper pipes and which sources its water from a recycled sink. "The work is placed on a copper background with machinery icons, creating the sense of a mechanical yet organically operating system." [66] | ||
![]() | Absolute Jellies Make Singing Sounds | The Green Building, Temple Lane, Temple Bar 53°20′41″N6°15′51″W / 53.34468°N 6.26421°W | 1994 | Maud Cotter | One of the doors to the Green Building, an environmentally friendly urban building. Cotter described the work as "a vertical wall of beached objects or collectable pieces of crap layered behind glass, like pickles in a jar. An exercise in aesthetic recycling, finding a new meaning and use for the discarded, a place for the particular in a wave of change." [66] | ||
![]() | Shutter | Outside the Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar 53°20′41″N6°15′53″W / 53.34465°N 6.26484°W | 1994 | Rachel Joynt | |||
![]() | Artwork set into a wall on Essex Street West depicting a Viking ship | Essex Street West | |||||
![]() | 1534 siege of Dublin Castle | Ship Street Little 53°20′33″N6°16′07″W / 53.34241°N 6.26867°W | Grace Weir | ||||
![]() | Rialto | Rialto 53°20′10″N6°17′56″W / 53.336249°N 6.298801°W | 2000 | Sandra Bell |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() | Lock Keeper | 10th lock, Royal Canal, Ashtown | 2007 | ||||
![]() | Martin Savage | Ashtown | 1948 | ||||
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. [67] | |||
![]() | Michael Cusack | Croke Park, Jones Road | 2011 | Paul Ferriter | |||
![]() | Harry McEntee | St. Margaret's Road | Memorial to Harry McEntee killed during the Irish Civil War. | ||||
![]() | Let the Life Flow Through | Ballygall | 1996 | Elizabeth McLaughlin | [68] | ||
![]() | 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 | Main Street, Ballymun | 2005 | Andrew Clancy | [69] | ||
![]() | Misneach | Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun | 2010 | John Byrne | [70] | ||
![]() | Pisces | Chapelizod 53°21′03″N6°21′11″W / 53.350793°N 6.353066°W | Located on Kylemore Road near the corner with Lucan Road | ||||
![]() More images | Moai sculpture | 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 [71] | ||
![]() | Realt na Mára Mary, Queen of the Sea | Bull Wall, Clontarf | 1972 | Cecil King | |||
![]() More images | Windsculpture | Clontarf Road / Alfie Byrne Road | 1988 | Éamonn O'Doherty | |||
![]() More images | Dancing Couple Stardust fire | Stardust Memorial Park, Coolock | 1993 | Robin Buick | [72] | ||
![]() | Family Unit 1 | Fairview Park | 1988 | Joe Moran | |||
![]() More images | Seán Russell | Fairview Park | 2009 | Willie Malone | Original stone statue 1951 | ||
![]() | Flags of the Easter Rising | Finglas | 2016 | ||||
![]() | Liam Mellows | Finglas | 2019 | ||||
![]() More images | Dick McKee | Finglas Village | 1951 | ||||
![]() More images | The Nethercross | St. Canice's graveyard, Finglas | 9th century | In current location since 1806 [73] | |||
![]() | Niche | Finglas Road 53°22′48″N6°17′20″W / 53.379986°N 6.288938°W | 2007 | Orla de Brí | |||
![]() | The Spirit of Finglas | Finglas village centre | 1991 | Leo Higgins | |||
![]() | The Bridge Fiacha Dhubha Fhionglaise ar Foluain | Kildonan Park, Finglas 53°23′35″N6°18′44″W / 53.392995°N 6.312254°W | 2021 | Sara Cunnigham-Bell | Finglas Ravens Soar [74] | ||
![]() | Our Lady (Virgin Mary) | Our Lady's Park, Drumcondra | unknown - Marian year 1954? | ||||
![]() More images | The Ready Boat Pillar | Howth Harbour | 1996 | Sean O'Dwyer | |||
![]() More images | Howth Fishermens' Association Memorial | Howth Harbour | 1994 | ||||
![]() | Realt na Mára Star of the Sea [75] | Howth Fishing Pier | 2013 | Robert McColgan | |||
![]() | River Run | Phibsborough Public Library, Phibsborough | '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 | Saint Anne's Park, Raheny | early 1970s | unknown | [24] | ||
![]() | The Mad Cow | Saint Anne's Park | 1996 | St. John Hennessy | [24] | ||
![]() | Tree of Life | Saint Anne's Park | 2015 | Tommy Craggs | Carved out of a dead Monterey cypress [76] | ||
![]() | Phoenix Folly | Santry Demesne 53°24′07″N6°14′44″W / 53.402062°N 6.245553°W | |||||
![]() | Temple Folly | Santry Demesne | The original folly was taken from Templeogue house and later moved to Luggala where it remains as a protected structure as of 2023. The current temple is a facsimile of the original. | ||||
![]() | Luí-na-Gréine | Carrickbrack Road, near Sutton Strand | Mid 2000s | Cliodhna Cussen | Granite carved Winter Solstice Sunset marking stone and viewing bench | ||
![]() | RMS Tayleur | Portrane |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() More images | Wellington Monument | Phoenix Park | 1861 | Robert Smirke | |||
![]() More images | Phoenix Column | Phoenix Park | 1747 | ||||
![]() More images | Papal Cross Pope John Paul II's visit to Ireland | Phoenix Park | 1979 | Paschal Clarke | |||
![]() | Memorial Cross Phoenix Park Murders | Phoenix Park | 1883 | [77] | |||
![]() More images | Seán Heuston | Phoenix Park | 1943 | Laurence Campbell | |||
![]() | Plinth of former statue of George Howard | Phoenix Park | 1870 | Statue blown up in 1958 |
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 [78] | ||
![]() | Statue in Fountain | Farmleigh | Carved carrara marble fountain with putti figures [79] | ||||
![]() | 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 |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() More images | 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 |
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 | [80] | ||||
![]() | Sepian Blue | National Botanic Gardens | 2007 | Nasser Azam | [81] | ||
![]() | Kingdom of Plants Arising | National Botanic Gardens | Michael Quane | [82] | |||
![]() | Child and Ball Trough | National Botanic Gardens | |||||
![]() | Craobh | National Botanic Gardens | 1995 | Gerard Cox | [83] | ||
![]() | Sensory Garden Sculpture | National Botanic Gardens | [84] | ||||
![]() | Two Women | National Botanic Gardens | |||||
![]() | Chinese Lion | National Botanic Gardens | |||||
![]() | Double Helix | National Botanic Gardens | 2013 | Charles Jencks | [85] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() More images | Proclamation group Proclamation of the Irish Republic | Kilmainham Gaol | 2007 | Rowan Gillespie | |||
![]() | Cross of Sacrifice | Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge | 1940 | Edwin Lutyens | [86] | ||
![]() | Stone of Remembrance | Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge | 1940 | Edwin Lutyens | [86] | ||
![]() | Sunken Rose Garden and granite Bookrooms | Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge | 1940 | Edwin Lutyens | [86] | ||
![]() | Domed Temple | Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge | 1940 | Edwin Lutyens | [86] | ||
![]() | Freedom | Facebook campus, Merrion Road | Alexandra Wejchert | [87] | |||
![]() More images | An Cailín Bán | Sandymount Strand | 2002 | Sebastián | |||
![]() More images | W. B. Yeats | Sandymount Green | 1921 | Albert Power | |||
Seamus Heaney | Sandymount Green | 2016 | Carolyn Mulholland | [88] | |||
![]() | Wave | Park West | 2001 | Angela Conner | |||
![]() | Dublin Brigade IRA memorial | Harold's Cross | 1954 | [89] | |||
![]() | Robert Emmet | Harold's Cross Road | 2003 | Erected by the Robert Emmet Association to commemorate his arrest at Palmer's House in 1803. | |||
![]() More images | Éamonn Ceannt | Éamonn Ceannt Park, Harold's Cross 53°19′20″N6°17′39″W / 53.322214°N 6.294121°W | 1960s | ||||
![]() | Arthur Morrison Monument | Donnybrook | 1838 | Monument in the shape of a small obelisk. [90] | |||
![]() More images | Who Made The World | Ballsbridge 53°19′43″N6°13′54″W / 53.328514°N 6.231763°W | Cliodna Cussen | ||||
![]() | Horse (stallion) | Ballsbridge | 1984 | In the grounds of the Bewleys/Clayton Hotel. Formerly the Masonic Female Orphan School of Ireland. | |||
Bird | Herbert Park, Ballsbridge | 1990 | Eoin Byrne | ||||
![]() More images | Richard Crosbie | Ranelagh Gardens | 2008 | Rory Breslin | |||
| A Rhinoceros | Classon's Bridge, Milltown 53°18′29″N6°15′16″W / 53.307935°N 6.254403°W | 2002 | Unknown | [91] | ||
![]() | unknown | Corner of Con Colbert Road and Chapelizod Bypass (R148 road) 53°20′34″N6°19′13″W / 53.342765°N 6.320170°W | unknown | unknown |
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 | 2013 | Rowan Gillespie | Donated to UCD by Peter Sutherland. It is based on a small sculpture made by Rowan Gillespie in 1991 in response to a philosophical argument about the Iraq war. | ||
![]() | Iphigenia | Restaurant Building, UCD | 1984 | Tom Glendon |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() | The Nature Goddess | Millennium Park, Blanchardstown 53°23′19″N6°23′55″W / 53.388719°N 6.398475°W | 2018 | Richie Clarke | |||
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. | |||
Thomas Ashe | Lusk, County Dublin | 2017 | Paul D'Arcy | ||||
M1 Poppies | M1 Lissenhall exit to the R126 | 2012 | Douglas Mooney | 5 wind-moved solar-powered illuminated poppies [92] | |||
Beehive huts | Balbriggan bypass, near the Meath border | 2001 | Robert McColgan and Irene Benner [93] | Inspired by St. Molach, a beekeeper. | |||
![]() | Open Volumes | Balbriggan | 2007 | Mark Ryan | |||
![]() | The Ammonite | Malahide Marina | 2000 | Niall O'Neill | |||
![]() | Séamus Ennis | Naul, County Dublin | |||||
![]() | Eccentric orbit | Portmarnock Beach | 2002 | Rachel Joynt, Remco de Fouw | [94] | ||
![]() | St. Doulagh's Cross | St Doulagh's Church, Malahide Road | Early Medieval | Unknown | |||
![]() | James Hans Hamilton | Skerries, County Dublin | 1870 | Hamilton Monument in the shape of an obelisk [95] | |||
![]() | Tidy Towns sculpture | Skerries, County Dublin | 2016 | Shane Holland | Commemorates Skerries winning the Tidy Towns competition in 2016 | ||
![]() | The Skerries and Loughshinny Sea Pole | Skerries, County Dublin | 2013 | Shane Holland | A memorial for those lost to the sea. The climbable pole was a lifesaving part of the 'Apparatus' system used by the coastguard in the rescuing of ships in distress off the Skerries coast. | ||
![]() | Percy French | Skerries, County Dublin | 2008 | Bríd Ní Rinn | The view from Skerries inspired Percy French to write The Mountains of Mourne. | ||
![]() | Cormorant | Skerries, County Dublin | 2002 | Bríd Ní Rinn | |||
![]() | Terns | Skerries, County Dublin | 2004 | Bríd Ní Rinn |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() | Hiroshima Memorial Sculpture | Dublin Airport | Vincent Browne | ||||
![]() | Mother and Child | Dublin Airport | |||||
![]() | The Spirit of the Air | Dublin Airport roundabout 53°25′42″N6°13′47″W / 53.428370°N 6.229659°W | 1991 | Richard Enda King | King's design was chosen from 97 entries, and was made from reinforced concrete and Dublin granite. [96] It is 55ft high. [96] In October 1989, Minister for the Environment Pádraig Flynn commented that the sculpture would be "a big attraction to all our visitors who come to visit Ireland - they will see that we are committed to not just the environment, but also to the cultural aspects". [96] | ||
![]() | Forrest Tavern memorial | Dublin Airport, R108 53°25′55″N6°15′53″W / 53.431812°N 6.264591°W | 1990 | Previously located in what is now the North Runway, moved to its current location in 2017. | |||
![]() | Hugging sculpture (correct name unknown) | Dublin Airport 53°25′45″N6°14′37″W / 53.429246°N 6.243513°W | unknown | unknown |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() | Famine cross | Ballinascorney | c. 1850 | ||||
![]() | Blackrock Dolmen | Blackrock | 1987 | Rowan Gillespie | |||
![]() | Blackrock Cross | Blackrock | 8th or 9th Century | unknown | |||
![]() More images | Killiney Hill Obelisk | Killiney Hill | 1742 | John Mapas | |||
![]() | Patrick Sarsfield | Lucan, County Dublin | c. 1790 | [97] | |||
The Marker Tree [98] | N7, Kingswood interchange | 2011 | Andreas Kopp | ||||
Anne Devlin [99] | 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. | |||
![]() | Breaking Emmet's Block | Rathfarnham | 2016 | Alice Rekab | Inspired by the megalithic follies in Saint Enda's Park and Emmet's Block in the Pearse Museum. | ||
![]() | Love All | Templeogue 53°17′54″N6°18′14″W / 53.298334°N 6.303925°W | 2007 | Rachel Joynt | [100] | ||
![]() More images | Stillorgan Obelisk | Stillorgan | 1727 | Edward Lovett Pearce | |||
![]() | William Orpen | Stillorgan | 2018 | Rowan Gillespie | [101] | ||
![]() | The Fiddler of Dooney | Stillorgan Shopping Centre | Imogen Stuart | [102] | |||
![]() | St. Maelruan's Losset | Tallaght | Unknown but possibly ancient | Unknown | |||
Cliabhan (cradle) [103] | 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. | |||
![]() | Unity | Cherrywood 53°14′32″N6°08′21″W / 53.242272°N 6.139242°W | 2021 | Sandra Bell | [104] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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![]() More images | Queen Victoria Fountain | Dún Laoghaire | |||||
![]() More images | Capt. J. McNeil Boyd Obelisk | Dún Laoghaire Harbour | Royal St. George Yacht Club | ||||
More images | George IV Obelisk | Dún Laoghaire | 1823 | [105] | |||
![]() More images | Christ the King | Dún Laoghaire | 1978 | Andrew O'Connor | [105] | ||
![]() More images | Archer II | Dún Laoghaire | Niall O'Neill | ||||
![]() More images | Roger Casement | Dún Laoghaire | 2021 | Mark Richards | |||
![]() | Commemorative Trees Stone | People's Park, Dún Laoghaire | |||||
More images | Mothership | Glasthule | 1999 | Rachel Joynt | |||
Thus Daedalus Flew | Killiney Hill | 1986 | Niall O'Neill | ||||
![]() | Sun Worshipper | Crosthwaite Park 53°17′12″N6°08′03″W / 53.286756°N 6.134243°W | unknown | unknown | |||
![]() | Sculpture reminiscent of a Moai from Easter Island | Glenageary Road Upper, Glenageary 53°16′42″N6°07′53″W / 53.278468°N 6.131402°W | unknown | unknown |
Image | Title / subject | Location | Date | Artist / designer | Notes and references |
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![]() | Equestrian Statue of 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 as of 2023. [106] |
![]() | 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. [107] |
![]() | Archibald Montgomerie | St Stephen's Green | 1866–1958 | Patrick MacDowell | Destroyed in August 1958 in an explosion by the IRA, two Gardaí and a civilian were injured in the bombing. [108] [109] |
![]() | William of Orange | College Green | 1701–1929 | Grinling Gibbons | Damaged after explosion on anniversary of Armistice Day in 1928, and subsequently removed in 1929. [110] Melted down in 1946. [ citation needed ] |
![]() | 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". [111] 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) [112] |
Steine of Dublin | College Street, Dublin | 9th century to early 1700s | Unknown | Norse era structure to mark the domain of Viking Dublin which was removed at some stage in the early 1700s. | |
![]() | 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. [113] |
![]() | 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. [114] [115] The smaller bronze statues are held in storage within the grounds of the National museum overflow facility at St Conleth's Reformatory School. |
![]() | 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 [116] |
William Blakeney | O'Connell Street | 1759–1782 | John van Nost the younger | Removed sometime before 1782 [117] | |
![]() | 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. [118] [119] [120] | |
Sir Alexander Macdonnell | Marlborough Street | 1878–1958 | Thomas Farrell [121] | Originally located in front of Tyrone House within the grounds of the Department of Education. Now stored in the grounds of the National museum overflow facility at St Conleth's Reformatory School. [122] | |
![]() | Gough Monument | Phoenix Park | 1878–1957 | John Henry Foley | Blown up in 1957, it was later restored and re-erected in the grounds of Chillingham Castle, England, in 1990. [70] [b] |
William Shakespeare | Riversdale House, Kilmainham | 1725-1969 | Unknown | The house was built around 1725 in stone for Dublin lawyer John Fitzpatrick who sold it shortly after to a legal colleague Simon Bradstreet. The house had extensive formal gardens and a stone statue of Shakespeare on the front. It later became tenements in the late 19th and early 20th century. The whereabouts of the statue today are unknown. [123] In the manner of a similar statue by Peter Scheemakers. | |
![]() | George II | Weavers' Hall, The Coombe | 1750-1937 | John van Nost the younger | It was erected in a niche on the front of Weavers' Hall in the Coombe to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. It was taken down as it was feared that it may be blown up by Republicans and today the remains are held within the collections of the Dublin Civic Museum. |
Frederick the Great | Prussia Street | 1760-? | Patrick Cunningham | Metal bust installed on the niche of a house on Cabragh Lane, which was then to be renamed Prussia Street in honour of Frederick the Great who was celebrating his 49th birthday. The bust was apparently executed by Patrick Cunningham a former apprentice of John van Nost the younger. [124] | |
![]() | George Howard | Phoenix Park | 1870–1958 | John Henry Foley | The statue was dislodged by a bomb 28 July 1958 and moved to Castle Howard in Yorkshire. The pedestal remains in place as a memorial. [125] |
![]() | George IV | Linenhall, Dublin | 1824 | Thomas Kirk | In black marble with inscription - "This statue of his majesty George IV was erected by the merchants engaged in the linen trade of Ireland to commemorate his majestys gracious visit to the linen hall, on the 23rd of August 1821. [126] |
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. One of them is in the Vicar Street bar. [127] |
![]() | Aspiration – Liberty Scaling the Heights | Grand Canal Street | 1995–2020 | Rowan Gillespie | Removed in 2020 [128] [129] |
Gateway | Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire | 2002-2009 | Michael Warren | Removed in 2009. Returned to the artist in 2015 in exchange for an alternative work entitled 'Angel Negro'. [130] | |
![]() | The Claddagh Embrace | Corner of Dame Street and South Great George's Street | 10-29 April 2015 (approx.) | Joe Caslin | Installed during the night on Friday 10 April 2015 in the weeks prior to the 2015 Irish constitutional referendum on same-sex marriage on 22 May 2015. "After 19 days, the wind and the rain began to take it (the mural) down". [131] |
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