List of public art in Dublin

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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

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O'Connell Street

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O'Connell Monument O'Connell Street

53.347725°N 6.259314°W / 53.347725; -6.259314
1882John Henry Foley (and later Thomas Brock)
William Smith O'Brien O'Connell Street

53.348250°N 6.259538°W / 53.348250; -6.259538
1870Thomas Farrell Previously on D'Olier Street from 1870–1929
Sir John Gray O'Connell Street

53.3485433°N 6.259705°W / 53.3485433; -6.259705
1879Thomas Farrell
James Larkin O'Connell Street

53.349085°N 6.259963°W / 53.349085; -6.259963
1980Oisín Kelly
Spire of Dublin O'Connell Street

53.349803°N 6.260249°W / 53.349803; -6.260249
2003Ian Ritchie Architects
Cú Chulainn GPO, O'Connell Street

53.349334°N 6.261075°W / 53.349334; -6.261075
1911Oliver Sheppard Installed at the GPO in 1935
Father Theobald Mathew O'Connell Street 1893Mary 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

53.3525785°N 6.2614683°W / 53.3525785; -6.2614683
1911Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Cathal Brugha O'Connell Street 1956Gabriel Hayes
Mr. Screen Lobby of Savoy Cinema, O'Connell Street 1988Vincent Browne Previously on Hawkins Street, outside the Screen Cinema from 1988–2016.
Paweł Strzelecki Sackville Place 2015
The Joyce Trail O'Connell Street (and 13 other locations) 1988Robin Buick[4] 14 bronze plaques set into the streets of Dublin, commemorating Ulysses (1922)
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North Quays

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Famine
Great Famine
Custom House Quay 1997Rowan Gillespie [5]
World Poverty Stone
UN International Day for the Eradication of World Poverty
Custom House Quay 2008Stuart McGrath The Stone is inscribed with the words "Wealth and Poverty," along with the coordinates of Dublin and an excerpt from a poem by Seamus Heaney. The monument was commissioned by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).[5]
Father Pat Noise memorial O'Connell Bridge 2004Unknown [6]
Meeting Place Lower Liffey Street 1988Jackie McKenna Nicknamed "The Hags with the Bags"

[7][8]

Anna Livia
The River Liffey
Croppies Acre Memorial Park,
Wolfe Tone Quay
1988Éamonn O'Doherty Previously in O'Connell Street 1988–2001. At Wolfe Tone Quay since 2011. "The Floozie in the Jacuzzi"[9]
1798 Rebellion memorial Croppies Acre Memorial Park 1998Edward Delaney
Flow North Wall, Dublin in front of Dublin Landings 2008Martin 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.[10]
Restless: Liffey Love North Wall, Dublin 2024Rhona Byrne Benches made of recycled plastic recovered from the River Liffey.[11]
Triumphal arch George's Dock near river Liffey 1813, repositioned 1998Unknown Rusticated limestone ashlar arch built in 1813 and until 1998 stood in Amiens Street until it was relocated to the newly redeveloped Custom House Quay area in 1998. A plaque attached to the arch indicates that the arch was re-dedicated to Pat O'Shea for his community work and is dated April 2002. It is said to have originally been constructed to celebrate Wellington’s victory at the Battle of Salamanca and acted for many years as the principal entrance gate to Custom House Quay.
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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.

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James Joyce North Earl Street 1990Marjorie Fitzgibbon[12] Nicknamed "The Prick with the Stick"[13][12]
Margaret Ball and Francis Taylor Cathedral Street 2001Conall McCabe
The Three Graces Cathal Brugha Street 1941Gabriel Hayes
The Wishing Hand Marlborough Street 2001Linda Brunker[14]
Talking Heads Abbey Street 1990Carolyn Mulholland
Chariot of Life Abbey Street 1982Oisín Kelly
James Connolly Beresford Place 1996Éamonn O'Doherty[15]
Universal Links on Human Rights
Jails holding prisoners of conscience
Amiens Street 1995Tony O'Malley[15]
Battle of the Custom House Memorial Memorial Road 1957Yann Goulet
Scáthán Store Street 2007Robert McColgan[16]
Luke Kelly Sheriff Street 2019Vera Klute[17][15]
NC Iris Mayor Square, IFSC, Dublin Docklands 2006Vivienne Roche[15] Commissioned by the National College of Ireland on their move to the IFCS. Built by Steel & Co.[18][19]
Strong Striking Bear
of Great Deeds
IFSC House 1999Don Cronin Part of a pair 'Bear and Bull'. Bull sculpture is in lobby on other side of building.
Bull IFSC House 1999Don Cronin Part of a pair 'Bear and Bull'. Bear sculpture outside the other side of building.
Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial Talbot Street 1997Oisín Kelly
Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial Parnell Street 2008
Summerhill Group Summerhill 1991Cathy Carman[20] Bronze work on Kilkenny limestone. It was commissioned by Dublin Corporation as part of the Per Cent for Art Scheme. The work invokes the history of the street, before its redevelopment when children would play on the street.
Beds Portland Row 1993Fred Conlon [21]
Home Buckingham Street 2000Leo Higgins [22]
The Five Lamps[23]
General Henry Hall Memorial
Amiens Street/North Strand c.1880George Smyth
North Strand Bombing Memorial North Strand Road 1991
Sundial Mountjoy Square 1988 Polar Sundial and Tempus - is inscribed on it.
Mosaic tile and concrete tree Mountjoy Square There are two of these in the centre of the square and both were created by the nearby Pavee Point centre
Drop Maritime Sculpture Garden, Dublin Port 2017Eimear Murphy
The Mariner Maritime Sculpture Garden, Dublin Port 1975John Behan Made of scrap metal
Hexagon (This could be it) North Strand Bombing Memorial Garden (formerly in the National Botanic Gardens) 2014Steven Doody Made from weathered steel (COR-TEN)
2 x stone plaques commemorating the opening of Spencer Dock Royal Canal lifting bridge 15 April 1873Unknown Made from carved limestone
Metal Plaque and cross on ground commemorating Matt Talbot Matt Talbot Court, Seán O'Casey Avenue

53.356750°N 6.255111°W / 53.356750; -6.255111
August 1971Unknown Inscription reads "These flats have been named Matt Talbot Court to commemorate the servant of God Matt Talbot who for the last 25 years of his life lived in a single room in 18 Upper Rutland Street. This house with many others was demolished to make room for these flats. Its site is marked to the left of this plaque."
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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.

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Ag Crú na Gréine Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street 2003Jackie McKenna "Enjoying the sun"[24]
Easter Rising Memorial Arbour Hill Cemetery
The Healing Hands Mater Plot/Berkeley Road 2000Tony O'Malley
Four Masters Memorial Four Masters Park (former Mater Plot) 1876James Cahill
Children of Lir Garden of Remembrance,
Parnell Square
1966Oisín Kelly
Irish Volunteers memorial Parnell Square East 1960Werner Schurmann
Suzanne Walking in Leather Skirt Parnell Square north 2006Julian Opie Two-sided animated LED display outside the Hugh Lane Gallery
Let's Dance
Memorial to the Miami Showband killings
Parnell Square north 2007Redmond Herrity
Brendan Behan Royal Canal, Dorset Street 2003John Coll
Peadar Kearney Lower Dorset Street
The Soldier
War of Independence Memorial
Blessington Street Park 1939Leo Broe
Natural Histories Blessington Street Basin

53.35754°N 6.270686°W / 53.35754; -6.270686
1994Austin McQuinn
Éire 1798 Memorial St. Michan's Park 1903Unknown
Our Lady, Queen of Peace Broadstone unknown - Marian year 1954?
The O'Rahilly O'Rahilly Parade 2005Shane Cullen
Demolition Dave Smithfield Luas stop 2004James Gannon Commissioned by the Railway Procurement Agency to celebrate the life of demolition manager Dave Conway
Utah teapot Smithfield, Dublin 2021Alan Butler [25]
Jerome Connor Infirmary Road, Dublin 7 Unknown Bronze plaque overlooking phoenix park
Spiderweb Sculpture Corner of Western Way and Mountjoy Street 2003Kathleen O'Brien An iron representation of a spiders webs affixed across the side of 53 Mountjoy Street. Commissioned by Dr Austin O’Carroll, whose GP practice used to be located inside the building.[26]
The Hungry Tree King's Inns Park 20th CenturyKing's Inns Park staff A London plane which has been allowed to partially consume an adjacent park bench over the decades.
Dublin's Last Supper The Italian Quarter (Bloom Lane) 2004John Byrne Depicting a modern-day re-enactment of Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper', Byrne added an 'Irish twist' by replacing the Biblical characters with a cast of local Dubliners that reflected a "changing society and the growing cultural mix in Dublin".[27]
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South city centre

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Trinity College

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Thumb Edmund Burke Trinity College

53.344574°N 6.259191°W / 53.344574; -6.259191
1868John Henry Foley
Thumb Oliver Goldsmith Trinity College

53.344381°N 6.259210°W / 53.344381; -6.259210
1864John Henry Foley
Thumb William Lecky Trinity College 1904Goscombe John
George Salmon Trinity College 1911John Hughes
Thumb Campanile Trinity College 1853Charles Lanyon,
Thomas Kirk
Thumb Sphere Within Sphere Trinity College

53.343812°N 6.255903°W / 53.343812; -6.255903
1982Arnaldo Pomodoro
Thumb Reclining Connected Forms Trinity College 1969Henry Moore
Thumb Cactus Provisoire Trinity College 1976Alexander Calder
Thumb The Double Helix Trinity College 2003Brian King
Thumb Chac Mool Trinity College 2015Sebastián [28]
Thumb Apples and Atoms
Ernest Walton
Trinity College

53.343575°N 6.252427°W / 53.343575; -6.252427
2013Eilis O'Connell [29]
Countermovement Trinity College 1985Michael Warren [30]
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St. Stephen's Green

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Thumb Fusiliers' Arch
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
St Stephen's Green 1907John Howard Pentland [31]
Thumb Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa St Stephen's Green
James Joyce St Stephen's Green 1982Marjorie Fitzgibbon [12]
Thumb Lord Ardilaun St Stephen's Green 1891Thomas Farrell
Thumb Fianna Éireann memorial St Stephen's Green 1966
Thumb Robert Emmet St Stephen's Green 1916 (original)Jerome Connor See Robert Emmet (Connor)
Thumb Tom Kettle St Stephen's Green 1919 (bust)
1927 (memorial)
Albert G. Power [32]
Thumb Constance Markievicz St Stephen's Green
Thumb Three Fates St Stephen's Green 1956Joseph Wackerle [33]
Thumb Lady Laura Grattan Font St Stephen's Green North 1880 [34]
Thumb James Clarence Mangan St Stephen's Green 1909Oliver Sheppard
Thumb Standing Figure: Knife Edge
W. B. Yeats memorial
St Stephen's Green 1961Henry Moore
Thumb Rabindranath Tagore St Stephen's Green 2011
Thumb Rose Bowl St Stephen's Green 2006Sandra Bell [35]
Thumb Wolfe Tone St Stephen's Green 1967Edward Delaney
Thumb Great Famine Monument St Stephen's Green 1967Edward Delaney
Thumb Anna and Thomas Haslam Memorial St Stephen's Green 1923
Thumb Louie Bennett and Helen Chenevix Memorial St Stephen's Green 1958 The memorial is located at a garden for the blind, where the names of scented plants are labelled in braille[36]
Thumb Eqyptian and Nubian noblewomen Shelbourne Hotel, St Stephen's Green 1867Mathurin Moreau 4 statues outside the Shelbourne Hotel[37]
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Merrion Square Park

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Thumb Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture Merrion Square Park

53.340806°N 6.250545°W / 53.340806; -6.250545
1997Danny Osborne [24]
Thumb Constance Lloyd
Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial
Merrion Square Park

53.340857°N 6.250486°W / 53.340857; -6.250486
1997Danny Osborne
Thumb Dionysus
Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial
Merrion Square Park

53.340853°N 6.250590°W / 53.340853; -6.250590
1997Danny Osborne
Thumb Michael Collins Merrion Square Park 1990Dick Joynt [24]
Thumb Joker's Chair
Dermot Morgan
Merrion Square Park

53.339917°N 6.248921°W / 53.339917; -6.248921
2002Catherine Greene [24]
Thumb Éire sculpture Merrion Square Park 1974Jerome Connor
Thumb Bernardo O'Higgins Merrion Square Park 1995Francisco Orellano Pavez
Thumb Henry Grattan Merrion Square Park 1982Peter Grant
Thumb The Victims Merrion Square Park 1976Andrew O'Connor
Thumb National Memorial to Members
of the Defence Forces Who Have Died in Service
Merrion Square Park 2008Brian King
Mother and Child Merrion Square Park 1985Patrick Roe
Thumb Tribute Head II Merrion Square Park 1983Elisabeth Frink
Thumb George William Russell (Æ) Merrion Square Park 1985Jerome Connor
Thumb Rutland Fountain Merrion Square Park 1792Francis Sandys
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Iveagh Gardens

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Thumb John McCormack Iveagh Gardens 2008Elizabeth O'Kane [38]
Thumb Neptune x 2 Iveagh Gardens 1865Unknown Two statues of Neptune Roman god of fresh water which are broken. The remains lie covered by undergrowth
Thumb Unknown Iveagh Gardens 1865Unknown Headless classical statue - likely Roman goddess on a granite plinth. Other similar statues are dotted around the park and are also in poor condition
Thumb Venus Iveagh Gardens 1865Unknown Nose has been broken off at some stage.
Thumb Fountain x 2 Iveagh Gardens 1865Ninian Niven
Thumb Sundial Iveagh Gardens Unknown Sundial at the centre of an ornamental hedgerow maze
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South Quays

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Thumb Matt Talbot City Quay 1988James Power [15]
Thumb Irish Merchant Navy Memorial Elizabeth O'Farrell Park on City Quay 1990
Thumb Admiral William Brown Sir John Rogerson's Quay

53.346040°N 6.239526°W / 53.346040; -6.239526
2006 [15]
Thumb Gaswork Sir John Rogerson's Quay

53.34591°N 6.235546°W / 53.34591; -6.235546
2012John Kindness Commissioned by Bord Gáis to commemorate the history of gas in Dublin[39]
Thumb The Linesman City Quay

53.347082°N 6.249143°W / 53.347082; -6.249143
1999Dony MacManus [15]
Thumb Patrick Sheahan Memorial Hawkins Street 1906W.P. O'Neill
Thumb People's Island Traffic island at junction of D'Olier Street and Westmoreland Street 1988Rachel Joynt
Thumb Sunlight Chambers Essex Quay

53.345289°N 6.267759°W / 53.345289; -6.267759
1902Edward Ould
Thumb Wood Quay Wood Quay 2002Michael Warren
Thumb Viking Boat Essex Quay 1988Betty Newman [40]
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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.

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Thomas Moore College Street 1857Christopher Moore
Thumb Long Stone replica College Street 1986Cliodhna Cussen [41] 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.
Thumb Constance Markievicz Townsend Street 1998Elizabeth McLaughlin Also show her cocker spaniel dog called Poppet.
Thumb Harmony Pearse Square, Pearse Street 1998Sandra Bell [15]
Thumb Units of Potential Pearse Street 2011Alice Rekab
Thumb Táin Mosaic Nassau Street 1974Desmond Kinney
Thumb William Plunket Kildare Street 1901Hamo Thornycroft [42]
Thumb Leinster Lawn Cenotaph
Leinster Lawn,
Leinster House
1923Raymond McGrath A temporary structure was erected in 1923 on Leinster Lawn, this was replaced by this more modern version in 1950.[43] Four wreathed bronze plaques are inset in its base, three bear a low-relief profile of Griffith, Collins and O'Higgins. The fourth contains an inscription in Irish: "Do chum glóire Dé agus onóra na hÉireann".[a]
Constance Markievicz Leinster House 1930sLeo Broe [44]
Thumb Industry and Fame Leinster House 1908John Hughes Originally part of the Queen Victoria statue which stood outside Leinster House on Kildare Street side. See Past Public Art section below.[44] Returned to Leinster House in 2001.
Thumb Prince Albert Leinster Lawn,
Leinster House
1868John Henry Foley Companion piece to statue of Queen Victoria which stood outside Leinster House on Kildare Street side. See Past Public Art section below.
Thumb Thomas Heazle Parke Natural History Museum,
Merrion Street
Thumb William Dargan National Gallery,
Merrion Street
1853
Thumb The Kiss Earlsfort Terrace 1989Rowan Gillespie
Thumb Lean Earlsfort Terrace 2017Caoimhe Kilfeather Commissioned by the law firm Arthur Cox
Thumb An SpéirBhean Windsor Place, Pembroke Street 1990Robin Buick Also called Sky Woman or Heavenly Woman
Thumb Reflections Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower 1978Michael Bulfin [45]
Thumb Red Cardinal Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower 1978John Burke [45]
Thumb Catherine McAuley Baggot Street Lower 1994Michael Burke [46]
Thumb Somewhere between Andromeda and Vulpecula:
Sky Atlas
Percy Place, off Haddington Road

53.334452°N 6.244131°W / 53.334452; -6.244131
2014Isabel Nolan
Thumb Birdy Upper Mount Street 1997Rowan Gillespie
Thumb Memories of Mount Street Upper Mount Street 1988Derek A. Fitzsimons
Thumb Brian Friel and John B. Keane Upper Mount Street

53.336593°N 6.243247°W / 53.336593; -6.243247
1994Neil C. Breen Previously the statues were inside the window of a nearby building. Moved outside c. 2017
Thumb Easter Rising Mount Street Bridge [47]
Thumb Carnac Upper Leeson Street 1979Bob Mulcahy Granite abstract sculpture located on the traffic island.[48]
Thumb Patrick Kavanagh Grand Canal 1991John Coll
Thumb Overflow Grand Canal Street 1997Linda Brunker [49]
Thumb Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Dock 2008Martha Schwartz
Thumb Dodder Buoy Grand Canal Dock
Thumb More Equal Grand Canal Plaza 1999Eilis O'Connell [50]
Thumb Queen Maedbh Burlington Road 2004Patrick O'Reilly
Thumb Barge Horse Herbert Place 1999Maurice Harron
Thumb An Gallán Gréine[51] Sean Moore Park, Irishtown 1983Clíodna Cussen "Sun Stone"
Thumb Irish Mercantile Marine World War II memorial Irishtown

53.337867°N 6.219618°W / 53.337867; -6.219618
1984 [52]
Thumb William Ashford Irishtown

53.339345°N 6.223015°W / 53.339345; -6.223015
1893 [53]
Thumb James Joyce Grounds of the Merrion Hotel Rowan Gillespie 2m high bronze statue titled Ripples of Ulysses
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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.

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Thumb Henry Grattan College Green 1876John Henry Foley
Thomas Davis College Green 1966Edward Delaney
Thumb Four Angels Fountain
Secondary piece to Davis Memorial
College Green 1966Edward Delaney
Thumb Crann an Óir Central Plaza, Dame Street

53.344431°N 6.262783°W / 53.344431; -6.262783
1991Éamonn O'Doherty [54]
Thumb Bronze Palm Tree seat Temple Bar

53.345608°N 6.262580°W / 53.345608; -6.262580
Vincent Browne
Thumb Love Lane Crampton Court

53.344666°N 6.266604°W / 53.344666; -6.266604
2014Anna Doran[55] A selection of ceramic tiles with quotes about love and heartbreak, lyrics, poetry and Irish wit submitted by the public to the artist via social media.[55]
Thumb Oliver St. John Gogarty and James Joyce Temple Bar
Thumb Sir William Temple Plaque Temple Bar/Temple Lane
Thumb Molly Malone Suffolk Street,

53.343753°N 6.260939°W / 53.343753; -6.260939
1988Jeanne Rynhart Previously Grafton Street from 1988 to 2014
Thumb Luke Kelly South King Street 2019John Coll [17]
Thumb Dublin Yeomanry Memorial St. Andrew Street
Thumb St Andrew St. Andrew Street 1803
Thumb Phil Lynott Harry Street 2005Paul Daly "The Ace with the Bass"[56]
Thumb Why go Bald Dame Lane, off South Great Georges Street

53.343972°N 6.264270°W / 53.343972; -6.264270
1962 An advertising sign for the Universal Hair and Scalp Clinic. It was restored in 1999.[57][58]
Thumb Veronica Guerin Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle 2001John Coll
Thumb Garda Memorial Garden Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle 2010Anna Dolan
Thumb Serpent Water Feature Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle 1994Killian Shurmann
Thumb Special Olympics Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle 2003John Behan
Thumb Benjamin Guinness St Patrick's Cathedral 1875John Henry Foley
Thumb Millennium Child Christchurch Place

53.342802°N 6.271502°W / 53.342802; -6.271502
2000John Behan [59]
Thumb Tree of Life Peace Park, Christ Church Cathedral 1988Leo Higgins,
Colm Brennan
Thumb John Field Golden Lane

53.34053°N 6.269918°W / 53.34053; -6.269918
Thumb Liberty Bell St. Patrick's Park 1988Vivienne Roche
Thumb The Literary Parade
St. Patrick's Park 1988Colm Brennan,
John Coll
Thumb Sentinel Patrick Street 1994Vivienne Roche
Thumb The Obelisk Fountain Thomas Street 1790Francis Sandys
Adult and Child Seat St. Catherine's Park, Thomas Street 1988Jim Flavin[60] Commissioned as part of the AIB sponsored Dublin Millennium Sculpture Symposium 1988
Thumb Homeless Jesus Christ Church Cathedral Timothy Schmalz
Thumb Rialto Rialto

53.336249°N 6.298801°W / 53.336249; -6.298801
2000Sandra Bell
Thumb Mirror Granite In the small unnamed triangular park between Kevin Street Lower and Kevin Street Cross

53.337747°N 6.268897°W / 53.337747; -6.268897
1984Kevin Buckley
Thumb Irish writers The pavement in front of The Palace Bar on Fleet Street

53.34584°N 6.25960°W / 53.34584; -6.25960
2011Jarlath Daly Four bronze plaques dedicated to Irish writers (Flann O'Brien, Con Houlihan, Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh) set into the pavement in front of The Palace Bar
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Northside suburbs

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Thumb Lock Keeper 10th lock, Royal Canal, Ashtown 2007
Thumb Martin Savage Ashtown 1948
Eyes for You Balgriffin 2018Eileen MacDonagh Wicklow granite sculpture commissioned by Cairn Homes and Dublin City Council. it is circa 3m high and weighs 5 tonnes.[61]
Thumb Michael Cusack Croke Park, Jones Road 2011Paul Ferriter
Thumb Harry McEntee St. Margaret's Road Memorial to Harry McEntee killed during the Irish Civil War.
Thumb Let the Life Flow Through Ballygall 1996Elizabeth McLaughlin [62]
Thumb amaptocare Ballymun 2003–2006 (and ongoing)Jochen Gerz Participative arts project in which members of the public sponsored trees (around 635 in all) to be planted across all neighbourhoods of Ballymun during the regeneration of the area; a plaza and map monumental aspect has yet to be completed.
Thumb Another Sphere Ballymun 2009Kevin Atherton Consists of a pair of stainless steel hemispheres sited in two different parts of Balcurris Park in Ballymun.
Thumb Cathode/Anode Main Street, Ballymun 2005Andrew Clancy [63]
Thumb Misneach Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun 2010John Byrne [64]
Thumb Pisces Chapelizod

53.350793°N 6.353066°W / 53.350793; -6.353066
Located on Kylemore Road near the corner with Lucan Road
Moai sculpture Clontarf Road 2004Alejandro Pakarati Moai is the correct name for an Easter Island statue. Donated by the Government of Chile to the City of Dublin[65]
Thumb Realt na Mára
Mary, Queen of the Sea
Bull Wall, Clontarf 1972Cecil King
Thumb Windsculpture Clontarf Road / Alfie Byrne Road 1988Éamonn O'Doherty
Thumb Dancing Couple
Stardust fire
Stardust Memorial Park, Coolock 1993Robin Buick [66]
Thumb Family Unit 1 Fairview Park 1988Joe Moran
Thumb Seán Russell Fairview Park 2009Willie Malone Original stone statue 1951
Thumb Flags of the Easter Rising Finglas 2016
Thumb Liam Mellows Finglas 2019
Thumb The Nethercross St. Canice's graveyard, Finglas 9th century In current location since 1806[67]
Thumb Niche Finglas Road

53.379986°N 6.288938°W / 53.379986; -6.288938
2007Orla de Brí
Thumb The Spirit of Finglas Finglas village centre 1991Leo Higgins
Thumb The Bridge
Fiacha Dhubha Fhionglaise ar Foluain
Kildonan Park, Finglas

53.392995°N 6.312254°W / 53.392995; -6.312254
2021Sara Cunnigham-Bell Finglas Ravens Soar[68]
Thumb Our Lady (Virgin Mary) Our Lady's Park, Drumcondra unknown - Marian year 1954?
Thumb Howth Fishermens' Association Memorial Howth Harbour 1994
Realt na Mára
Star of the Sea[69]
Howth Fishing Pier 2013Robert McColgan
Thumb River Run Phibsborough Public Library, Phibsborough 'River Run' was designed by Dublin City Council Parks and Landscape Services to honour Dublin's designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. It is an element of a quote from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Grass Seed Saint Anne's Park, Raheny early 1970sunknown [24]
Thumb The Mad Cow Saint Anne's Park 1996St. John Hennessy [24]
Tree of Life Saint Anne's Park 2015Tommy Craggs Carved out of a dead Monterey cypress[70]
Thumb Phoenix Folly Santry Demesne

53.402062°N 6.245553°W / 53.402062; -6.245553
Thumb Temple Folly Santry Demesne The original folly was taken from Templeogue house and later moved to Luggala where it remains as a protected structure as of 2023. The current temple is a facsimile of the original.
Thumb Luí-na-Gréine Carrickbrack Road, near Sutton Strand Mid 2000sCliodhna Cussen Granite carved Winter Solstice Sunset marking stone and viewing bench
Thumb RMS Tayleur Portrane
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Phoenix Park

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Thumb Wellington Monument Phoenix Park 1861Robert Smirke
Thumb Phoenix Column Phoenix Park 1747
Thumb Papal Cross
Pope John Paul II's visit to Ireland
Phoenix Park 1979Paschal Clarke
Thumb Memorial Cross
Phoenix Park Murders
Phoenix Park 1883 [71]
Thumb Seán Heuston Phoenix Park 1943Laurence Campbell
Thumb Plinth of former statue of George Howard Phoenix Park 1870 Statue blown up in 1958
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Farmleigh

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Thumb Convergence Farmleigh 2004Brian King Commissioned to celebrate the accession of 10 new states to the EU in 2004[72]
Thumb Statue in Fountain Farmleigh Carved carrara marble fountain with putti figures[73]
Thumb Farmleigh Tony Cragg
Thumb Éan Mór Farmleigh Breon O'Casey Part of a series of bird statues in bronze and wood
Thumb Remembering Farmleigh John Wiedman Inspired by a machine that made milk substitute for Air Force personnel stationed in Newfoundland, Canada
Thumb Hybrid Vigour Farmleigh James Gannon
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Glasnevin Cemetery

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Thumb O'Connell Tower Glasnevin Cemetery
Thumb Young Irelanders and Fenians Memorial Glasnevin Cemetery
Thumb Great War Monument Glasnevin Cemetery
Thumb Easter Rising Necrology Wall Glasnevin Cemetery 2016
Thumb Cross of Sacrifice Glasnevin Cemetery 2014
Thumb 16th Irish Division Memorial Glasnevin Cemetery 2016
Thumb Great Famine Memorial Glasnevin Cemetery 2016
Thumb 1916 Easter Rising Memorial St Paul's, Glasnevin Cemetery 2016
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National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

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Thumb De Rerum Natura National Botanic Gardens Plaque on ground at entrance from carpark
Thumb Between art and nature National Botanic Gardens 2001O'Connor Alternative Latin title 'Inter artes et naturam'
Thumb Socrates National Botanic Gardens [74]
Thumb Sepian Blue National Botanic Gardens 2007Nasser Azam [75]
Thumb Kingdom of Plants Arising National Botanic Gardens Michael Quane [76]
Thumb Child and Ball Trough National Botanic Gardens
Thumb Craobh National Botanic Gardens 1995Gerard Cox [77]
Thumb Sensory Garden Sculpture National Botanic Gardens [78]
Thumb Two Women National Botanic Gardens
Thumb Chinese Lion National Botanic Gardens
Thumb Double Helix National Botanic Gardens 2013Charles Jencks [79]
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Southside suburbs

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Thumb Proclamation group
Proclamation of the Irish Republic
Kilmainham Gaol 2007Rowan Gillespie
Thumb Cross of Sacrifice Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge 1940Edwin Lutyens [80]
Thumb Stone of Remembrance Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge 1940Edwin Lutyens [80]
Thumb Sunken Rose Garden and granite Bookrooms Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge 1940Edwin Lutyens [80]
Thumb Domed Temple Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge 1940Edwin Lutyens [80]
Thumb Freedom Facebook campus,
Merrion Road
Alexandra Wejchert [81]
Thumb An Cailín Bán Sandymount Strand 2002Sebastián
Thumb W. B. Yeats Sandymount Green 1921Albert Power
Seamus Heaney Sandymount Green 2016Carolyn Mulholland [82]
Thumb Wave Park West 2001Angela Conner
Thumb Dublin Brigade IRA memorial Harold's Cross 1954 [83]
Thumb Robert Emmet Harold's Cross Road 2003 Erected by the Robert Emmet Association to commemorate his arrest at Palmer's House in 1803.
Thumb Éamonn Ceannt Éamonn Ceannt Park, Harold's Cross

53.322214°N 6.294121°W / 53.322214; -6.294121
1960s
Thumb Arthur Morrison Monument Donnybrook 1838 Monument in the shape of a small obelisk.[84]
Thumb Who Made The World Ballsbridge

53.328514°N 6.231763°W / 53.328514; -6.231763
Cliodna Cussen
Thumb Horse (stallion) Ballsbridge 1984 In the grounds of the Bewleys/Clayton Hotel. Formerly the Masonic Female Orphan School of Ireland.
Bird Herbert Park, Ballsbridge 1990Eoin Byrne
Thumb Richard Crosbie Ranelagh Gardens 2008Rory Breslin
Thumb A Rhinoceros Classon's Bridge, Milltown

53.307935°N 6.254403°W / 53.307935; -6.254403
2002Unknown [85]
Thumb unknown Corner of Con Colbert Road and Chapelizod Bypass (R148 road)

53.342765°N 6.320170°W / 53.342765; -6.320170
unknownunknown
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University College Dublin

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Thumb Noah's Egg Veterinary building, UCD 2004Rachel Joynt
Thumb Judgement Sutherland School of Law, UCD 2013Rowan Gillespie Donated to UCD by Peter Sutherland. It is based on a small sculpture made by Rowan Gillespie in 1991 in response to a philosophical argument about the Iraq war.
Thumb Iphigenia Restaurant Building, UCD 1984Tom Glendon
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North County Dublin

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Thumb The Nature Goddess Millennium Park, Blanchardstown

53.388719°N 6.398475°W / 53.388719; -6.398475
2018Richie Clarke
Inverted Oil Rig Father Collins Park, Clongriffin 2012Alan Phelan As of September 2020, it has been removed from the lake and is in storage in the park.
Thomas Ashe Lusk, Dublin 2017Paul D'Arcy
M1 Poppies M1 Lissenhall exit to the R126 2012Douglas Mooney 5 wind-moved solar-powered illuminated poppies[86]
Beehive huts Balbriggan bypass, near the Meath border 2001Robert McColgan and Irene Benner[87] Inspired by St. Molach, a beekeeper.
Thumb Open Volumes Balbriggan 2007Mark Ryan
Thumb The Ammonite Malahide Marina 2000Niall O'Neill
Thumb Séamus Ennis Naul, Dublin
Thumb Eccentric orbit Portmarnock Beach 2002Rachel Joynt,
Remco de Fouw
[88]
Thumb St. Doulagh's Cross St Doulagh's Church, Malahide Road Early MedievalUnknown
Thumb James Hans Hamilton Skerries, Dublin 1870 Hamilton Monument in the shape of an obelisk[89]
Thumb Tidy Towns sculpture Skerries, Dublin 2016Shane Holland Commemorates Skerries winning the Tidy Towns competition in 2016
Thumb The Skerries and Loughshinny Sea Pole Skerries, Dublin 2013Shane Holland A memorial for those lost to the sea. The climbable pole was a lifesaving part of the 'Apparatus' system used by the coastguard in the rescuing of ships in distress off the Skerries coast.
Thumb Percy French Skerries, Dublin 2008Bríd Ní Rinn The view from Skerries inspired Percy French to write The Mountains of Mourne.
Thumb Cormorant Skerries, Dublin 2002Bríd Ní Rinn
Thumb Terns Skerries, Dublin 2004Bríd Ní Rinn
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Dublin airport

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Thumb Hiroshima Memorial Sculpture Dublin Airport Vincent Browne
Thumb Mother and Child Dublin Airport
Thumb The Spirit of the Air Dublin Airport roundabout

53.428370°N 6.229659°W / 53.428370; -6.229659
1991Richard Enda King King's design was chosen from 97 entries, and was made from reinforced concrete and Dublin granite.[90] It is 55ft high.[90] In October 1989, Minister for the Environment Pádraig Flynn commented that the sculpture would be "a big attraction to all our visitors who come to visit Ireland - they will see that we are committed to not just the environment, but also to the cultural aspects".[90]
Thumb Forrest Tavern memorial Dublin Airport, R108

53.431812°N 6.264591°W / 53.431812; -6.264591
1990 Previously located in what is now the North Runway, moved to its current location in 2017.
Thumb Hugging sculpture (correct name unknown) Dublin Airport

53.429246°N 6.243513°W / 53.429246; -6.243513
unknownunknown
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South County Dublin

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Thumb Famine cross Ballinascorney c. 1850
Thumb Blackrock Dolmen Blackrock 1987Rowan Gillespie
Thumb Blackrock Cross Blackrock 8th or 9th Centuryunknown
Thumb Killiney Hill Obelisk Killiney Hill 1742John Mapas
Thumb Patrick Sarsfield Lucan, County Dublin c. 1790 [91]
The Marker Tree[92] N7, Kingswood interchange 2011Andreas Kopp
Anne Devlin[93] Rathfarnham 2003Clodagh Emoe Erected by the Anne Devlin Commemoration Association. Life-size bronze statue of Anne Devlin, Robert Emmet's loyal friend and supporter.
Thumb Breaking Emmet's Block Rathfarnham 2016Alice Rekab Inspired by the megalithic follies in Saint Enda's Park and Emmet's Block in the Pearse Museum.
Love All Templeogue

53.298336°N 6.304008°W / 53.298336; -6.304008
2007Rachel Joynt [94]
Thumb Stillorgan Obelisk Stillorgan 1727Edward Lovett Pearce
William Orpen Stillorgan 2018Rowan Gillespie [95]
Thumb The Fiddler of Dooney Stillorgan Shopping Centre Imogen Stuart [96]
Thumb St. Maelruan's Losset Tallaght Unknown but possibly ancientUnknown
Cliabhan (cradle)[97] Tymon Park, Tallaght 2006Linda Brunker Commissioned by Pact to commemorate their 50th anniversary and 50 years of adoption in Ireland. Pact is an independent Irish charity founded in 1952.
Thumb Unity Cherrywood

53.242272°N 6.139242°W / 53.242272; -6.139242
2021Sandra Bell [98]
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Dún Laoghaire

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Thumb Queen Victoria Fountain Dún Laoghaire
Thumb Capt. J. McNeil Boyd Obelisk Dún Laoghaire Harbour Royal St. George Yacht Club
Thumb George IV Obelisk Dún Laoghaire 1823 [99]
Thumb Christ the King Dún Laoghaire 1978Andrew O'Connor [99]
Thumb Archer II Dún Laoghaire Niall O'Neill
Thumb Roger Casement Dún Laoghaire 2021Mark Richards
Thumb Commemorative Trees Stone People's Park, Dún Laoghaire
Thumb Mothership Glasthule 1999Rachel Joynt
Thus Daedalus Flew Killiney Hill 1986Niall O'Neill
Thumb Sun Worshipper Crosthwaite Park

53.286756°N 6.134243°W / 53.286756; -6.134243
unknownunknown
Thumb Sculpture reminiscent of a Moai from Easter Island Glenageary Road Upper, Glenageary

53.278468°N 6.131402°W / 53.278468; -6.131402
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Past public art

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Thumb Equestrian Statue of 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 as of 2023.[100]
Thumb 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.[101]
Thumb Archibald Montgomerie St Stephen's Green 1866–1958 Patrick MacDowell Destroyed in August 1958 in an explosion by the IRA, two Gardaí and a civilian were injured in the bombing.[102][103]
Thumb William of Orange College Green 1701–1929 Grinling Gibbons Damaged after explosion on anniversary of Armistice Day in 1928, and subsequently removed in 1929.[104] Melted down in 1946. [citation needed]
Thumb 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".[105] It was subsequently replaced by Cliodhna Cussen's The Steine of Long Stone in 1986.
Thumb 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)[106]
Steine of Dublin College Street, Dublin 9th century to early 1700s Unknown Norse era structure to mark the domain of Viking Dublin which was removed at some stage in the early 1700s.
Thumb The Market Cross The junction of High Street and Skinner's Row (now Christchurch Place) near the city tholsel 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.[107]
Thumb 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.[108][109] The smaller bronze statues are held in storage within the grounds of the National museum overflow facility at St Conleth's Reformatory School.
Thumb 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[110]
William Blakeney O'Connell Street 1759–1782 John van Nost the younger Removed sometime before 1782[111]
Thumb 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.[112][113][114]
Sir Alexander Macdonnell Marlborough Street 1878–1958 Thomas Farrell[115] Originally located in front of Tyrone House within the grounds of the Department of Education. Now stored in the grounds of the National museum overflow facility at St Conleth's Reformatory School.[116]
Thumb Gough Monument Phoenix Park 1878–1957 John Henry Foley Blown up in 1957, it was later restored and re-erected in the grounds of Chillingham Castle, England, in 1990.[64][b]
William Shakespeare Riversdale House, Kilmainham 1725-1969 Unknown The house was built around 1725 in stone for Dublin lawyer John Fitzpatrick who sold it shortly after to a legal colleague Simon Bradstreet. The house had extensive formal gardens and a stone statue of Shakespeare on the front. It later became tenements in the late 19th and early 20th century. The whereabouts of the statue today are unknown.[117] In the manner of a similar statue by Peter Scheemakers.
Thumb George II Weavers' Hall, The Coombe 1750-1937 John van Nost the younger It was erected in a niche on the front of Weavers' Hall in the Coombe to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. It was taken down as it was feared that it may be blown up by Republicans and today the remains are held within the collections of the Dublin Civic Museum.
Frederick the Great Prussia Street, Dublin 1760-? Patrick Cunningham Metal bust installed on the niche of a house on Cabragh Lane, which was then to be renamed Prussia Street in honour of Frederick the Great who was celebrating his 49th birthday. The bust was apparently executed by Patrick Cunningham a former apprentice of John van Nost the younger.[118]
Thumb George Howard Phoenix Park 1870–1958 John Henry Foley The statue was dislodged by a bomb 28 July 1958 and moved to Castle Howard in Yorkshire. The pedestal remains in place as a memorial.[119]
Millennium Clock River Liffey March to August 1996
Thumb The Point Rocket Point Theatre 2006–?
Thumb Three Bears with Attitude North Wall Quay (3Arena) 2009–2017 Patrick O'Reilly Removed in 2017, current whereabouts unknown. One of them is in the Vicar Street bar.[120]
Thumb Aspiration – Liberty Scaling the Heights Grand Canal Street 1995–2020 Rowan Gillespie Removed in 2020[121][122]
Gateway Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire 2002-2009 Michael Warren Removed in 2009. Returned to the artist in 2015 in exchange for an alternative work entitled 'Angel Negro'.[123]
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Notes

  1. For the glory of God and the honour of Ireland
  2. Bought by a member of the Guinness family from the Office of Public Works. It was loaned to Humphrey Wakefield of Chillingham Castle. It is on loan until the people of Ireland want it returned.

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