World City Icons.
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….have Sherry Fitzgerald lost the run of themselves in attempting to imply that the little big titted statue of hooker Molly Malone is in the same league as Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty as a world city icon….there masters of exaggeration we all know but they should have some idea of scale !!
Maybe if they had likened it with the little mermaid in Copenhagen; might have been a better comparison.
Agreed but it does highlight the absence of a single accepted symbol for the City.
@Papworth wrote:
….have Sherry Fitzgerald lost the run of themselves in attempting to imply that the little big titted statue of hooker Molly Malone is in the same league as Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty as a world city icon….there masters of exaggeration we all know but they should have some idea of scale !!
I personally think that the Spike is a more relevant comparison to the ones mentioned
GregF wrote:Maybe if they had likened it with the little mermaid in Copenhagen]That’s a brilliant comparison! Well it would be only, Molly Malone is a fictional character and the mermaid is in fact ……………………real
I thought Molly was real 🙁
You can’t compare the Spike to the likes of Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, etc. It’s just a flag pole with no flag on it.
The south portico and dome of the Custom House would have done perfectly, given the proportions of the images.
Molly Malone was indeed real – but given the way she died (consumption) I strongly doubt she was big titted
Well Carrolls ‘Irish’ Gifts sell little steel models of her if that helps in the status stakes – only €7.99………apparently……
Is there a link that’s missing on this thread?
Don’t know what you’re talking about……..:o
No, but when a relative was here from America recently, he wanted to bring back the crummiest piece of Irish tat conceivable to show his new neighbours – hence I directed him to you-know-where :p
Couldn’t get out of the place quick enough.@Morlan wrote:
I thought Molly was real 🙁
You can’t compare the Spike to the likes of Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, etc. It’s just a flag pole with no flag on it.
It’s hard to believe that the best known image of France, the Eiffle tower, was greeted with much the same attitude as yours there. It was seen as nothing more than a radio tower, and was intended to be taken down in the early 20th century.
I didn’t paticular like the spike when it was revieled but it has grown on me. And I rate it far above the likes of “Molly”. Some of our more famous buildings might be more valued on an historical sense, such as the GPO, but the spike is the frontrunner to achieve international fame. When you see the statue of liberty you know its nw york, when you see the eiffel tower even a child knows its Paris, The spike has a far greater chance, in years to come, to be a recognaisable symbol of ireland.
I am not sure that the tinny tower with all its 3rd. Republic associations is the best known image of France!
And let us not forget that the likes of Gambetta, Ferry , and later the awful Clémanceau, aka La Troisième Rép., lurk somewhere behind the the Statue of Liberty.
The Eiffel tower is impressive.. O’Connell’s pole is not.
Anyway, The Ha’penny Bridge is the Dublin City icon.
Thats the idea. What tourist shop would sell a model of a power station? Or an “I visited the Ringsend power station” T-shirt. A landmark to call your own.
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A classic. Probably the only structures in this country from the 1970s that people actually like.
They’ll be listed within the decade.
Oooh, one of yours Graham??
@PTB wrote:
Thats the idea. What tourist shop would sell a model of a power station?
I’d buy one if they existed 🙂
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