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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
Daniel O'Connell O'Connell Street

53°20′52″N 6°15′34″W / 53.347725°N 6.259314°W / 53.347725; -6.259314 		1882 John Henry Foley
William Smith O'Brien O'Connell Street

53°20′54″N 6°15′34″W / 53.348250°N 6.259538°W / 53.348250; -6.259538 		1870 Thomas Farrell Previously on D'Olier Street from 1870–1929
Sir John Gray O'Connell Street

53°20′55″N 6°15′35″W / 53.3485433°N 6.259705°W / 53.3485433; -6.259705 		1879 Thomas Farrell
James Larkin O'Connell Street

53°20′57″N 6°15′36″W / 53.349085°N 6.259963°W / 53.349085; -6.259963 		1980 Oisín Kelly
Spire of Dublin O'Connell Street

53°20′59″N 6°15′37″W / 53.349803°N 6.260249°W / 53.349803; -6.260249 		2003 Ian Ritchie Architects
File:Cuchulain at GPO.jpg Cú Chulainn GPO, O'Connell Street

53°20′58″N 6°15′40″W / 53.349334°N 6.261075°W / 53.349334; -6.261075 		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°21′09″N 6°15′41″W / 53.3525785°N 6.2614683°W / 53.3525785; -6.2614683 		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
Three Bears with Attitude North Wall Quay (3Arena) Patrick O'Reilly [4]
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 [5]
Father Pat Noise memorial O'Connell Bridge 2004 Unknown [6]
Two Women Lower Liffey Street [7]
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"[8]
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.[9]


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
James Joyce North Earl Street 1990 Marjorie Fitzgibbon [10]
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 [11]
Talking Heads Abbey Street 1990 Carolyn Mulholland
Chariot of Life Abbey Street 1982 Oisín Kelly
James Connolly Beresford Place 1996 Éamonn O'Doherty [12]
Universal Links on Human Rights
Jails holding prisoners of conscience 		Amiens Street 1995 Tony O'Malley [12]
Battle of the Custom House Memorial Memorial Road 1957 Yann Goulet
Scáthán Store Street 2007 Robert McColgan [13]
Luke Kelly Sheriff Street 2019 Vera Klute [14]
NC Iris Mayor Square, IFSC 2006 Vivienne Roche [12]
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
Summerhill Group Summerhill 1991 Cathy Carmen [15]
Beds Portland Row 1993 Fred Conlon [16]
Home Buckingham Street 2000 Leo Higgins [17]
The Five Lamps
General Henry Hall Memorial 		Amiens Street/North Strand c.1880 Unknown [18]
North Strand Bombing Memorial North Strand Road 1991
Sundial Mountjoy Square 1988 Unknown Polar Sundial and Tempus - is inscribed on it.
Mosaic tile and concrete tree Mountjoy Square Unknown Unknown There are two of these in the centre of the square and both were created by the nearby Pavee Point centre



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
Ag Crú na Gréine Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street 2003 Jackie McKenna [19] 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
Éire 1798 Memorial St. Michan's Park 1903 Unknown
Our Lady, Queen of Peace Broadstone
The O'Rahilly O'Rahilly Parade 2005 Shane Cullen


South city centre

Trinity College

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

53°20′40″N 6°15′33″W / 53.344574°N 6.259191°W / 53.344574; -6.259191 		1868 John Henry Foley
Oliver Goldsmith Trinity College

53°20′40″N 6°15′33″W / 53.344381°N 6.259210°W / 53.344381; -6.259210 		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
Sphere Within Sphere Trinity College

53°20′38″N 6°15′21″W / 53.343812°N 6.255903°W / 53.343812; -6.255903 		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 [20]
Apples and Atoms
Ernest Walton 		Trinity College

53°20′37″N 6°15′09″W / 53.343575°N 6.252427°W / 53.343575; -6.252427 		2013 Eilis O'Connell [21]


St. Stephen's Green

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Fusiliers' Arch
Royal Dublin Fusiliers 		St Stephen's Green 1907 John Howard Pentland [22]
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa St Stephen's Green
James Joyce St Stephen's Green 1982 Marjorie Fitzgibbon [10]
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 [23]
Constance Markievicz St Stephen's Green
Three Fates St Stephen's Green 1956 Joseph Wackerle [24]
Lady Laura Grattan Font St Stephen's Green North 1880 [25]
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 [26]
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
Oscar Wilde memorial sculpture Merrion Square Park

53°20′27″N 6°15′02″W / 53.340806°N 6.250545°W / 53.340806; -6.250545 		1997 Danny Osborne [19]
Constance Lloyd
Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial 		Merrion Square Park

53°20′27″N 6°15′02″W / 53.340857°N 6.250486°W / 53.340857; -6.250486 		1997 Danny Osborne
Dionysus
Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial 		Merrion Square Park

53°20′27″N 6°15′02″W / 53.340853°N 6.250590°W / 53.340853; -6.250590 		1997 Danny Osborne
Michael Collins Merrion Square Park 1990 Dick Joynt [19]
Joker's Chair
Dermot Morgan 		Merrion Square Park

53°20′24″N 6°14′56″W / 53.339917°N 6.248921°W / 53.339917; -6.248921 		2002 Catherine Greene [19]
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


South Quays

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Matt Talbot City Quay 1988 James Power [12]
Merchant Seamen Memorial Sir John Rogerson's Quay
Admiral William Brown Sir John Rogerson's Quay 2006 [12]
The Linesman City Quay

53°20′49″N 6°14′57″W / 53.347082°N 6.249143°W / 53.347082; -6.249143 		1999 Dony MacManus [12]
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°20′43″N 6°16′04″W / 53.345289°N 6.267759°W / 53.345289; -6.267759 		1902 Edward Ould
Wood Quay Wood Quay 2002 Michael Warren
Viking Boat Essex Quay 1988 Betty Newman [27]


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
Thomas Moore College Street
Long Stone replica College Street 1986 Cliodhna Cussen [28] 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 [12]
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.

[29]

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
William Dargan National Gallery,
Merrion Street 		1853
John McCormack Iveagh Gardens 2008 Elizabeth O'Kane [30]
Fountain Iveagh Gardens 1865 Ninian Niven [31]
The Kiss Earlsfort Terrace 1989 Rowan Gillespie
Lean Earlsfort Terrace 2017 Caoimhe Kilfeather
Reflections Bank of Ireland, Baggot Street Lower 1978 Michael Bulfin [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
Patrick Kavanagh Grand Canal 1991 John Coll
Liberty Scaling the Heights Grand Canal Street 1995 Rowan Gillespie [34]
Overflow Grand Canal Street 1997 Linda Brunker [35]
Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Dock 2008 Martha Schwartz
More Equal Grand Canal Plaza 1999 Eilis O'Connell [36]
Queen Maedbh Burlington Road 2004 Patrick O'Reilly
Barge Horse Herbert Place, Dublin 2 1999 Maurice Harron


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
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°20′40″N 6°15′46″W / 53.344431°N 6.262783°W / 53.344431; -6.262783 		1991 Éamonn O'Doherty [37]
Bronze Palm Tree seat Temple Bar

53°20′44″N 6°15′45″W / 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°20′38″N 6°15′39″W / 53.343753°N 6.260939°W / 53.343753; -6.260939 		1988 Jeanne Rynhart
Luke Kelly South King Street 2019 John Coll [14]
Dublin Yeomanry Memorial St. Andrew Street
St Andrew St. Andrew Street 1803
Phil Lynott Harry Street 2005 Paul Daly "The Ace with the Bass"[38]
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°20′34″N 6°16′17″W / 53.342802°N 6.271502°W / 53.342802; -6.271502 		2000 John Behan [39]
Tree of Life Peace Park, Christ Church Cathedral 1988 Leo Higgins,
Colm Brennan
Liberty Bell St. Patrick's Park 1988 Vivienne Roche
The Literary Parade
 St. Patrick's Park 1988 Colm Brennan,
John Coll
Sentinel Patrick Street 1994 Vivienne Roche
The Obelisk Fountain Thomas Street 1790 Francis Sandys


Northside suburbs

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Michael Cusack Croke Park 2011 Paul Ferriter
Lock Keeper 10th lock,
Royal Canal 		2007
Our Lady (Virgin Mary) Our Lady's Park, Botanic Avenue unknown - Marian year 1954? unknown
Seán Russell Fairview Park 2009 Willie Malone Original stone statue 1951
Realt na Mára
Mary, Queen of the Sea 		North Bull Wall 1972
Dancing Couple
Stardust fire 		Stardust Memorial Park, Coolock 1993 Robin Buick [40]
Misneach Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun 2010 John Byrne [41]
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 [42]
Windsculpture Clontarf Road/Alfie Byrne Road 1988 Éamonn O'Doherty
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 [43]
Howth Fishermens' Association Memorial Howth Harbour 1994
Realt na Mára
Star of the Sea 		Howth Pier 2013
The Spirit of Finglas Finglas village 1991 Leo Higgins
Dick McKee Memorial Finglas 1951
Flags of the Easter Rising Finglas 2016
Liam Mellows Finglas 2019
Niche Finglas Road

53°22′48″N 6°17′20″W / 53.379986°N 6.288938°W / 53.379986; -6.288938 		2007 Orla de Brí
Let the Life Flow Through Ballygall 1996 Elizabeth McLaughlin [44]
Phoenix Folly Santry Demesne
Luí-na-Gréine Carrickbrack Road near Sutton Strand Mid 2000s Cliodhna Cussen Granite carved Winter Solstice Sunset marking stone and viewing bench
Tree of Life Saint Anne's Park 2015 Tommy Craggs Carved out of a dead Monterey cypress [45]
Grass Seed Saint Anne's Park early 1970s unknown [46]
The Mad Cow Saint Anne's Park 1996 St. John Hennessy [47]
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.[48]


Phoenix Park

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
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 [49]
Seán Heuston Phoenix Park 1943 Laurence Campbell
Plinth of former statue of George Howard Phoenix Park 1870 Statue blown up in 1958


Glasnevin Cemetery

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / 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


National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
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 [50]
Sepian Blue National Botanic Gardens 2007 Nasser Azam [51]
Kingdom of Plants Arising National Botanic Gardens Michael Quane [52]
Child and Ball Trough National Botanic Gardens
Craobh National Botanic Gardens 1995 Gerard Cox [53]
Sensory Garden Sculpture National Botanic Gardens [54]
Two Women National Botanic Gardens
Chinese Lion National Botanic Gardens
Double Helix National Botanic Gardens 2013 Charles Jencks [55]


Southside suburbs

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Proclamation group
Proclamation of the Irish Republic 		Kilmainham Gaol 2007 Rowan Gillespie
Cross of Sacrifice Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge 1940 Edwin Lutyens [56]
Stone of Remembrance Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge 1940 Edwin Lutyens [56]
Freedom AIB Bank Centre,
Merrion Road 		Alexandra Wejchert [57]
An Cailín Bán Sandymount Strand 2002 Sebastián
Wave Park West 2001 Angela Conner
Dublin Brigade IRA memorial Harold's Cross 1954 [58]
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°19′20″N 6°17′39″W / 53.322214°N 6.294121°W / 53.322214; -6.294121 		1960s
Who Made The World Ballsbridge

53°19′43″N 6°13′54″W / 53.328514°N 6.231763°W / 53.328514; -6.231763 		Cliodna Cussen
A Rhinoceros Classon's Bridge, Milltown

53°18′29″N 6°15′16″W / 53.307935°N 6.254403°W / 53.307935; -6.254403 		2002 Unknown [59]
Horse (stallion) Ballsbridge 1984 In the grounds of the Bewleys/Clayton Hotel


University College Dublin

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
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
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 		[60]
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


South County Dublin

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
The Fiddler of Dooney Stillorgan Shopping Centre Imogen Stuart [61]
Stillorgan Obelisk Stillorgan
William Orpen Stillorgan 2018 Rowan Gillespie [62]
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


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 [63]
Christ the King Dún Laoghaire 1978 Andrew O'Connor [63]
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.[64]
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.[65]
William of Orange College Green 1701–1928 Grinling Gibbons Damaged after explosion on anniversary of Armistice Day in 1928, and subsequently removed.[66] 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".[67] 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) [68]
The Market Cross The junction of High Street and Skinner’s Row (now Christchurch Place) 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.[69]
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.[70][71]
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 [72]
William Blakeney O'Connell Street 1759–1782 John van Nost the younger Removed sometime before 1782[73]
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.[74][75][76]
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.[41][77]
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.[78]
Millennium Clock River Liffey March to August 1996
The Point Rocket Point Theatre 2006–?

See also

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