List of public art in Dublin

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. Dublin is particularly well known for nicknaming some of its monuments.[1][2][3][4][5]

Public art in North city centre

Name Image Location Artist Year Nickname Source
Daniel O'Connell O'Connell Street John Henry Foley
Charles Stewart Parnell O'Connell Street Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Sir John Gray O'Connell Street
James Larkin O'Connell Street Oisín Kelly 1977
Theobald Mathew O'Connell Street Mary Redmond 1891
William Smith O'Brien O'Connell Street
Spire of Dublin O'Connell Street Ian Ritchie Architects 2003 "The Stiletto in the Ghetto"
"The Syringe in The Binge"
"The Nail in The Pale"
"The Pin in The Bin"
"The Bertie Pole"
"The Spire in The Mire"
"The Stiffey on the Liffey"
"Metal Mickey" (mickey being slang for penis)
"The Pole in The Hole"
"The Rod to God"
[6][7][8][9]
Cú Chulainn GPO, O'Connell Street Oliver Sheppard 1911
(installed at GPO 1935)
Father Pat Noise memorial O'Connell Bridge [10]
Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial Talbot Street 1997
James Joyce North Earl Street "The Prick with the Stick" [11][12]
Margaret Ball and Francis Taylor Cathedral Street
Daniel Murray St Mary's Pro-Cathedral
Brendan Behan Royal Canal, Dorset Street
Anna Livia
The River Liffey
Croppies Memorial Park,
previously in O'Connell Street
Éamonn O'Doherty 2011 (1988) "The Floozie in the Jacuzzi"
"The hoor in the Sewer"
[12][13]
James Connolly Beresford Place Éamonn O'Doherty 1996 [14]
Famine
Great Famine
Custom House Quay Rowan Gillespie 1997 [15]
World Poverty Stone
UN International Day for the Eradication of World Poverty
Custom House Quay Stuart McGrath 2008 [15]
Universal Links on Human Rights
Jails holding prisoners of conscience
Amiens Street Tony O'Malley 1995 [14]
Two Women Lower Liffey Street "Hags with the bags" [12][16]
Custom House Memorial Memorial Road Yann Goulet 1957
Children of Lir Garden of Remembrance,
Parnell Square
Oisín Kelly 1966
Chariot of Life Abbey Street Oisín Kelly 1982
The Wishing Hand Marlborough Street Linda Brunker 2001 [17]
NC Iris Mayor Square, IFSC Vivienne Roche 2006 [14]
Strong Striking Bear IFSC
Ag Crú na Gréine (cow) Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street Jackie McKenna 2003 [18]
Two Children Portland Row

Public art in South city centre

Name Image Location Artist Year Nickname Source
Thomas Davis College Green Edward Delaney 1966
Henry Grattan College Green John Henry Foley 1876
Thomas Moore College Street
Long Stone replica College Street Cliodhna Cussen 1986
Phil Lynott Harry Street Paul Daly 2005 "The Ace with the Bass" [19]
Molly Malone Suffolk Street,
previously Grafton Street
"The Tart with the Cart"
"The Dish with the Fish"
"The Dolly with the Trolley"
"The Trollop with the Scallops"
[12][20][21][22][23]
William Plunket Kildare Street
James Joyce St Stephen's Green
Lord Ardilaun St Stephen's Green
Wolfe Tone St Stephen's Green Edward Delaney 1967 "Tonehenge" [24][25][26][27]
Robert Emmet St Stephen's Green
Tom Kettle St Stephen's Green
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa St Stephen's Green
Constance Markievicz St Stephen's Green
Great Famine Monument St Stephen's Green
Fusiliers' Arch
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
St Stephen's Green "Traitors' Gate" [28]
Three Fates St Stephen's Green
Lady Laura Grattan Font St Stephen's Green North
James Clarence Mangan St Stephen's Green Oliver Sheppard 1909
The Kiss Earlsfort Terrace Rowan Gillespie 1989
Michael Collins Merrion Square Park Dick Joynt 1990 [18]
Oscar Wilde Merrion Square Park Danny Osborne 1997 "The Quare in the Square"
"The fag on the crag"
"The Queer with the Leer"
[2][12][18][29][30][31]
Joker's Chair
Dermot Morgan
Merrion Square Park Catherine Greene 2002 [18]
Éire sculpture Merrion Square Park Jerome Connor 1976
National Memorial to Members
of the Defence Forces
Merrion Square Park Brian King 2008
Leinster Lawn Cenotaph
Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins,
Kevin O'Higgins
Leinster Lawn,
Leinster House
[32]
Prince Albert Leinster Lawn,
Leinster House
John Henry Foley 1868
Thomas Heazle Parke Natural History Museum,
Merrion Street
Birdy Upper Mount Street Rowan Gillespie 1997
Memories of Mount Street Lower Mount Street Anthony FitzSimons 1988
Patrick Kavanagh Grand Canal "The Crank on the Bank"
"Banal at the Canal"
[2][33]
Liberty Scaling the Heights Grand Canal Street
Constance Markievicz Tara Street
Edmund Burke Trinity College John Henry Foley 1868
Oliver Goldsmith Trinity College John Henry Foley 1864
William Lecky Trinity College
George Salmon Trinity College John Hughes
Campanile Trinity College Charles Lanyon,
Thomas Kirk
1853
Sphere Within Sphere Trinity College Arnaldo Pomodoro "The half-eaten Malteser"

"The Death Star"

[30]
Crann an Óir Central Bank, Dame Street Éamonn O'Doherty 1991 [34]
Harmony Pearse Street Sandra Bell 1998 [14]
Benjamin Guinness St Patrick's cathedral John Henry Foley 1875
Wood Quay Wood Quay Michael Warren 2002
Matt Talbot Sir John Rogerson's Quay James Power 1988 [14]
Merchant Seamen Memorial Sir John Rogerson's Quay
Admiral William Brown Sir John Rogerson's Quay 2006 [14]
The Linesman City Quay Dony MacManus 1999 [14]
Padraig Sheahan Memorial Hawkins Street
Mr. Screen Screen Cinema,
Hawkins Street
Vincent Browne 1988
Dublin Yeomanry Memorial St. Andrew Street
St Andrew St. Andrew Street 1803
People's Island (Footprints) Traffic island at junction of
D'Olier Street and Westmoreland Street
Rachel Joynt 1988
Proclamation group
Proclamation of the Irish Republic
Kilmainham Gaol Rowan Gillespie 2007

Public art in Northside suburbs

Name Image Location Artist Year Nickname Source
Wellington Monument Phoenix Park Robert Smirke 1861
Phoenix Column Phoenix Park 1747
Papal Cross
Pope John Paul II's visit to Ireland
Phoenix Park 1979
O'Connell Tower Glasnevin Cemetery
Double Helix National Botanic Gardens Charles Jencks 2013 [35]
Seán Russell Fairview Park 2009
(original stone statue 1951)
Realt na Mára
Star of the Sea
North Bull Wall 1972
Dancing Couple
Stardust fire
Stardust Memorial Park, Coolock
Misneach Main Street, Ballymun [36][37]
Windsculpture Clontarf Road / Alfie Byrne Road Eamon O'Doherty 1988
Howth Fishermens'
Association Memorial
Howth Harbour 1994 [38]
Realt na Mára Howth Pier 2013 [38]
Spirit of the Air Dublin Airport roundabout Richard Enda King 1991

Public art in Southside suburbs

Name Image Location Artist Year Nickname Source
Reflections Bank of Ireland HQ, Baggot Street Michael Bulfin 1978 [39]
Freedom AIB Bank Centre, Merrion Road Alexandra Wejchert [40]
Statue of a fiddler
and three children dancing
Stillorgan Shopping Centre Imogen Stuart [41]
Noah's Egg Veterinary building, UCD Rachel Joynt 2004
Mothership Glasthule Rachel Joynt 1999
An Cailín Bán Sandymount Strand Sebastian 2002
Blackrock Dolmen Blackrock Rowan Gillespie 1987
Queen Victoria Fountain Dún Laoghaire
George IV Obelisk Dún Laoghaire 1823 [42]
Christ the King Dún Laoghaire Andrew O'Connor 1978 [42]

Past public art

Name Image Location Artist Notes Nickname Source
George II St Stephen's Green Blown up in 1937 [43]
William of Orange College Green Grinling Gibbons Blown up in 1946
Sir Philip Crampton College Street John Kirk Erected in 1862, removed in 1959. "The Water-babe"
"The cauliflower"
[44]
Queen Victoria Merrion Square John Hughes Erected in 1904. Removed in 1947, put on display in Sydney, Australia in 1987. "The auld bitch" [45][46][47]
Nelson's Pillar O'Connell Street Francis Johnston
William Wilkins
Thomas Kirk
Erected in 1809, blown up in 1966.
William Blakeney O'Connell Street John Nost Erected in 1759, removed in 1808.
Bowl of Light & flowerbed O'Connell Bridge The flames of the Bowl of Light were thrown into the Liffey in 1953.
The ugly raised flowerbed on which the sculpture originally rested was first nicknamed "The Thing" and later 'The Tomb of the Unknown Gurrier'.
"The Tomb of the Unknown Gurrier" [48][49]
Gough Monument Phoenix Park John Henry Foley Badly damaged by a bomb in 1957 [37][50]
Millennium Clock River Liffey Removed in 1999 "The Chime in the Slime"
"The Clock in the Dock"
[12][33]

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  50. 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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