Fr Pat Noise Memorial
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Well I’m only delighted to post this from today’s Irish Times.
The wily Fr Pat Noise looks set to remain a permanent fixture on O’Connell Bridge after plans to remove him were suddenly aborted by Dublin City Council on Tuesday morning. There were red faces in the council after it emerged that councillors on the southeast committee had passed a motion to retain the unofficial plaque to the fictitious priest in December. Cllr Dermot Lacey tabled that motion and said he couldn’t believe his eyes when he read in the The Irish Times on Tuesday the plaque was to be removed by council workers that day. “It would have been a direct act of defiance to local government if it had been removed,” he said. Mr Lacey said it appeared the relevant city council officials were not aware of the councillors’ decision. Ten minutes after he raised a query with the council, he was told that the priest had been spared once more. The plaque commemorates the mysterious cleric who “died in suspicious circumstances when his carriage plunged into the Liffey on August 10th, 1919”.
This is back in the news again. Amazing wee story.
See here on Blogorrah: http://blogorrah.com/come-on-feel-the-noise-father-pat-saved.html, which I think is quoting from here (subs required): http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0524/1179498727032.html
There’s also a wikipedia entry for it now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Pat_Noise, on which there’s an archiseek link at the bottom. (And archiseek comes up first for a Google search on “Fr Pat Noise”. Sweet.
(Has any of the street art such as the arrow pointing upwards; or the atari-man embedded in walls turned up in Dublin at all? I’ve seen these from London to Vienna to Barcelona.)
@Sue wrote:
I find that as people have more leisure time and money, hoaxes are becoming more prevalent. Tiresome, really:(
I couldn’t disagree more. A well-performed hoax could be considered a type of artwork, even a kind of pereformance art. It’s more good hoaxes we need. But, alas, in fact, the golden age of hoaxing-the ninteenth century- is long gone. Nothing now is as audacious, creative and imaginative as the Berners Street hoax, the Cardiff Giant and the great Dreadnought hoax.
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