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Lets not forget the weird and wonderful creatures on the building now occupied by the Dublin Brewing Company in North King Street.
Don’t forget the massive heads on the warehouse on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay. I believe that they were once the keystones on O’Connell Bridge in its previous incarnation of the Carlisle Bridge.
While we are at it can anyone identify the attachment. I think it is in the Camden Street area
Would a large supermarket want to keep the fa̤ade? Surely they would want large windows. Could not it be used for small traders, in much the same way as the Long hall in Great Georges Street South is? Or is it too far from the tourist area Рwould local custom make it pay?
What is the intention? Something worthy like Bunratty? or an american-style Irish Disney World with people in silly green hats and lots of leprechauns trying to make people laugh. Sadly, I think the latter is intended. Would there be any chance of the consortium including a new ‘Lansdowne Road’ in their plans?
In his last few days on this earth he did get very wet while electioneering! Is it two coats or just the folds of a great coat?
Na daoini beaga have relented and returned my images! (or could it be that I had had just filed them under ‘henry’ rather than ‘henrietta’ (the files being adjacent on ‘My Computer’)?
As can be seen, she is indeed holding a torch, whether this was once connected to a gas supply i know not.Spooky is not the word. I know I have several images of the statue in my files, but can I find them? Na daoini beaga are at obviously at work on my computer!
Or may be the lawns were used in much the same way as the Castle court yard seems to be used today – when a scupture is on display for a few weeks and then removed and replaced by somethng else.
I have checked what references I have to hand and can find no mention of what these statues may have been. They are not mentioned in McCready’s ‘Dublin Street Names’ (1892) in which he devotes a section to statues. My guess, and it is only a guess, is that they may have been statues that were once inside the building and for one reason or another put out onto the lawns.
What puzzles me is the word ‘crumbling’. They must have been made of a very porous material – such as limestone – to ‘crumble’. Even monuments in graveyards rarely ‘crumble’ – they might weather, but not ‘crumble’. I have seen freestone 14th-century effigies that have laid in church yards for centuries, but they have not ‘crumbled’.
I will, by the way, be spending a couple of days in the Gilbert Library early in September and will see if I can shed any more light on the subject. The answer must lie somewhere . . .
Might Welpton have been refering to the caryatides ‘guarding’ the two main doorways? Although these are by no means ‘crumbling’.
I have a couple of appointments this morning, but will see what I can dig up this afternoon.
One of the fine trees he mentions is growing through a bench.The whole thought of Brendan sitting on a park bench is just too nonsensical for words.
What amadán thought of it?
Let us see him as he would have liked to have been remembered – outside the British Embassy holding aloft his deportation documents in triumph!Please tell us where the monument to Brendan is to be – who is the artist and when is it due to be unveiled. It is time that Dublin remembered him in such a fashion. I have no idea what is being considered, but I hope he is holding a glass of Guinness (if so may be the firm could sponsor the monument)!
And while we are at it how about a likeness of The Diceman in Meeting House Square?Do you mean the Thomas Davis fountain on College Green? If so, I agree, they are very Irish. What a pity the fountain is never set in play. It must look wonderful with water cascasding from the pipes.
Although, I don’t like the adjacent statue to Davis – a very clumsy piece of work. Was it by any chance executed by the same person who did Wolfe Tone on the Green? They look so much the same in style. As Privare Eye might say: ‘Are they by any chance related?’I was interested to learn that Mount Jerome is privately owned. That no doubt is one of the reason why it looks so tacky – so full of pompous monuments. How much nicer, how much more restful, is Prospect Cemetery. Walking in Prospect one feels at peace, whereas in Mount Jerome one just feels a sense of wonder at why the rich of the 19th century choose to spend their money on costly monuments to the dead rather than the living poor.
Sorry about the mildly political nature of this posting – I will understand if it removed by the moderator
