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42 Lower Ormond Quay
Nicknamed ‘the Hags with the Bags’ by the city’s wags - captures it beautifully. Sculpted by Jackie McKenna it was unveiled in 1988, the year of Dublin’s Millennium celebrations.
National Gallery of Ireland
Shaw was sculpted by his great friend, Paolo Troubetzkoy. Shaw’s famous words about the importance of art feature on the wall behind, appropriate considering the venue in the National Art gallery.
Merrion Square North
The great writer was celebrated for his devil-may-care attitude to life and that’s captured in Danny Osborne’s much-loved statue. Oscar reclines on a quartz boulder - sourced in the Wicklow Mountains.
O'Connell Bridge
Known as the 'Liberator', Daniel O'Connell was born in Carhan, Caherciveen in 1775. After securing the passage of the Catholic Emancipation Act in 1829, he was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. There are numerous memorials to him around Dublin City.
4 Beresford Place
The Scottish born socialist and Republican is revered for his commitment to raising the standard of living for those in impoverished conditions. His statue is located beneath the imposing Loopline Bridge.
Earl Street
James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. There are plaques dedicated to him throughout Dublin on Clanbrassil Street, in Chapelizod, Ormond Quay and Merrion Square Gardens. The Martello Tower in Sandycove is now a museum dedicated to his memory.
General Post Office
The GPO that housed the rebels during the 1916 Rising is a suitably grand public space to show Oliver Sheppard’s 1935 statue, The Death of Cú Chulainn
St Stephen's Green
The great revolutionary, immortalised in rousing song, may have been a diminutive man in height - but you would never know that from Edward Delaney’s magnificent 1964 statue.
O'Connell Street
Jim Larkin was one of Ireland’s greatest champions of workers’ rights and he was present during the 1913 Strike and Lockout. Oisin Kelly’s 1980 statue sees the great trade unionist in typically combative mode.
Trinity College Dublin
George Salmon was professor of mathematics for many years as well as a Church of Ireland rector. He was provost of Ireland’s oldest university during its tri-centenary celebrations in 1892.