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. Some of the city's monuments have nicknames, though many are not in popular use.[1][2]

North city centre

O'Connell Street

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Daniel O'Connell	O'Connell Street 53.347725°N 6.259314°W / 53.347725; -6.259314	1882	John Henry Foley
	William Smith O'Brien	O'Connell Street 53.348250°N 6.259538°W / 53.348250; -6.259538	1870	Thomas 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	1879	Thomas Farrell
	James Larkin	O'Connell Street 53.349085°N 6.259963°W / 53.349085; -6.259963	1980	Oisín Kelly
	Spire of Dublin	O'Connell Street 53.349803°N 6.260249°W / 53.349803; -6.260249	2003	Ian Ritchie Architects
	Cú Chulainn	GPO, O'Connell Street 53.349334°N 6.261075°W / 53.349334; -6.261075	1911	Oliver Sheppard			Installed at the GPO in 1935
	Father Theobald Mathew	O'Connell Street	1893	Mary 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	1911	Augustus Saint-Gaudens
	Cathal Brugha	O'Connell Street
	Mr. Screen	Lobby of Savoy Cinema, O'Connell Street	1988	Vincent Browne			Previously on Hawkins Street, outside the Screen Cinema from 1988–2016.
	Paweł Strzelecki	Sackville Place	2015

North Quays

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Famine Great Famine	Custom House Quay	1997	Rowan Gillespie			[4]
	World Poverty Stone UN International Day for the Eradication of World Poverty	Custom House Quay	2008	Stuart McGrath			[4]
	Father Pat Noise memorial	O'Connell Bridge	2004	Unknown			[5]
	Two Women	Lower Liffey Street					[6]
	Anna Livia The River Liffey	Croppies Acre Memorial Park, Wolfe Tone Quay (since 2011)	1988	Éamonn O'Doherty			Previously in O'Connell Street 1988–2001. "The Floozie in the Jacuzzi"[7]
	1798 Rebellion memorial	Croppies Acre Memorial Park	1998
	Flow	North Wall, Dublin in front of Dublin Landings	2008	Martin 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.[8]
	Double rainbow	Dublin Landings back of new Central Bank of Ireland	2020	Eva Rothschild[9]

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.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	James Joyce	North Earl Street	1990	Marjorie Fitzgibbon			[10]
	Margaret Ball and Francis Taylor	Cathedral Street	2001	Conall McCabe
	The Three Graces	Cathal Brugha Street	1941	Gabriel Hayes
	The Wishing Hand	Marlborough Street	2001	Linda Brunker			[11]
	Talking Heads	Abbey Street	1990	Carolyn Mulholland
	Chariot of Life	Abbey Street	1982	Oisín Kelly
	James Connolly	Beresford Place	1996	Éamonn O'Doherty			[12]
	Universal Links on Human Rights Jails holding prisoners of conscience	Amiens Street	1995	Tony O'Malley			[12]
	Battle of the Custom House Memorial	Memorial Road	1957	Yann Goulet
	Scáthán	Store Street	2007	Robert McColgan			[13]
	Luke Kelly	Sheriff Street	2019	Vera Klute			[14]
	NC Iris	Mayor Square, IFSC	2006	Vivienne Roche			[12]
	Bear Sculpture	IFSC House	1999	Don Cronin			Part of a pair 'Bear and Bull'. Bull sculpture is in lobby on other side of building.
	Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial	Talbot Street	1997
	Summerhill Group	Summerhill	1991	Cathy Carmen			[15]
	Beds	Portland Row	1993	Fred Conlon			[16]
	Home	Buckingham Street	2000	Leo Higgins			[17]
	The Five Lamps General Henry Hall Memorial	Amiens Street/North Strand	c.1880				[18]
	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	2017	Eimear Murphy
	The Mariner	Maritime Sculpture Garden, Dublin Port	1975	John Behan			Made of scrap metal
	Hexagon (This could be it)	North Strand Bombing Memorial Garden (formerly in the National Botanic Gardens)	2014	Steven Doody			Made from weathered steel (COR-TEN)
	2 x stone plaques commemorating the opening of Spencer Dock	Royal Canal lifting bridge	15 April 1873	Unknown			Made from carved limestone

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.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Ag Crú na Gréine	Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street	2003	Jackie McKenna			[19] Enjoying the sun
	Easter Rising Memorial	Arbour Hill Cemetery
	The Healing Hands	Mater Plot/Berkeley Road	2000	Tony O'Malley
	Four Masters Memorial	Mater Plot/Berkeley Road	1876	James Cahill
	Children of Lir	Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square	1966	Oisín Kelly
	Irish Volunteers memorial	Parnell Square East	1960	Werner Schurmann
	Suzanne Walking in Leather Skirt	Parnell Square north	2006	Julian Opie			Two-sided animated LED display outside the Hugh Lane Gallery
	Let's Dance Memorial to the Miami Showband killings	Parnell Square north	2007	Redmond Herrity
	Brendan Behan	Royal Canal, Dorset Street	2003	John Coll
	Peadar Kearney	Lower Dorset Street
	The Soldier War of Independence Memorial	Blessington Street Park	1939	Leo Broe
	Natural Histories	Blessington Street Basin	1994	Austin McQuinn
	Éire 1798 Memorial	St. Michan's Park	1903	Unknown
	Our Lady, Queen of Peace	Broadstone
	The O'Rahilly	O'Rahilly Parade	2005	Shane Cullen

South city centre

Trinity College

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Edmund Burke	Trinity College 53.344574°N 6.259191°W / 53.344574; -6.259191	1868	John Henry Foley
	Oliver Goldsmith	Trinity College 53.344381°N 6.259210°W / 53.344381; -6.259210	1864	John Henry Foley
	William Lecky	Trinity College	1904	Goscombe John
	George Salmon	Trinity College	1911	John Hughes
	Campanile	Trinity College	1853	Charles Lanyon, Thomas Kirk
	Sphere Within Sphere	Trinity College 53.343812°N 6.255903°W / 53.343812; -6.255903	1982	Arnaldo Pomodoro
	Reclining Connected Forms	Trinity College	1969	Henry Moore
	Cactus Provisoire	Trinity College	1976	Alexander Calder
	The Double Helix	Trinity College	2003	Brian King
	Chac Mool	Trinity College	2015	Sebastián			[20]
	Apples and Atoms Ernest Walton	Trinity College 53.343575°N 6.252427°W / 53.343575; -6.252427	2013	Eilis O'Connell			[21]

St. Stephen's Green

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Fusiliers' Arch Royal Dublin Fusiliers	St Stephen's Green	1907	John Howard Pentland			[22]
	Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa	St Stephen's Green
	James Joyce	St Stephen's Green	1982	Marjorie Fitzgibbon			[10]
	Lord Ardilaun	St Stephen's Green	1891	Thomas Farrell
	Fianna Éireann memorial	St Stephen's Green	1966
	Robert Emmet	St Stephen's Green	1916 (original)	Jerome Connor
	Tom Kettle	St Stephen's Green	1919 (bust) 1927 (memorial)	Albert G. Power			[23]
	Constance Markievicz	St Stephen's Green
	Three Fates	St Stephen's Green	1956	Joseph Wackerle			[24]
	Lady Laura Grattan Font	St Stephen's Green North	1880				[25]
	James Clarence Mangan	St Stephen's Green	1909	Oliver Sheppard
	Standing Figure: Knife Edge W. B. Yeats memorial	St Stephen's Green	1961	Henry Moore
	Rabindranath Tagore	St Stephen's Green	2011
	Rose Bowl	St Stephen's Green	2006	Sandra Bell			[26]
	Wolfe Tone	St Stephen's Green	1967	Edward Delaney
	Great Famine Monument	St Stephen's Green	1967	Edward Delaney
	Anna and Thomas Haslam Memorial	St Stephen's Green	1923
	Louie Bennett and Helen Chenevix Memorial	St Stephen's Green	1958

Merrion Square Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture	Merrion Square Park 53.340806°N 6.250545°W / 53.340806; -6.250545	1997	Danny Osborne			[19]
	Constance Lloyd Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial	Merrion Square Park 53.340857°N 6.250486°W / 53.340857; -6.250486	1997	Danny Osborne
	Dionysus Companion piece to the Oscar Wilde Memorial	Merrion Square Park 53.340853°N 6.250590°W / 53.340853; -6.250590	1997	Danny Osborne
	Michael Collins	Merrion Square Park	1990	Dick Joynt			[19]
	Joker's Chair Dermot Morgan	Merrion Square Park 53.339917°N 6.248921°W / 53.339917; -6.248921	2002	Catherine Greene			[19]
	Éire sculpture	Merrion Square Park	1974	Jerome Connor
	Bernardo O'Higgins	Merrion Square Park	1995	Francisco Orellano Pavez
	Henry Grattan	Merrion Square Park	1982	Peter Grant
	The Victims	Merrion Square Park	1976	Andrew O'Connor
	National Memorial to Members of the Defence Forces Who Have Died in Service	Merrion Square Park	2008	Brian King
	Mother and Child	Merrion Square Park	1985	Patrick Roe
	Tribute Head II	Merrion Square Park	1983	Elisabeth Frink
	George William Russell (Æ)	Merrion Square Park	1985	Jerome Connor
	Rutland Fountain	Merrion Square Park	1792	Francis Sandys

South Quays

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Matt Talbot	City Quay	1988	James Power			[12]
	Merchant Seamen Memorial	Sir John Rogerson's Quay
	Admiral William Brown	Sir John Rogerson's Quay	2006				[12]
	The Linesman	City Quay 53.347082°N 6.249143°W / 53.347082; -6.249143	1999	Dony MacManus			[12]
	Patrick Sheahan Memorial	Hawkins Street	1906	W.P. O'Neill
	People's Island	Traffic island at junction of D'Olier Street and Westmoreland Street	1988	Rachel Joynt
	Sunlight Chambers	Essex Quay 53.345289°N 6.267759°W / 53.345289; -6.267759	1902	Edward Ould
	Wood Quay	Wood Quay	2002	Michael Warren
	Viking Boat	Essex Quay	1988	Betty Newman			[27]

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.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Thomas Moore	College Street
	Long Stone replica	College Street	1986	Cliodhna Cussen			[28] 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.
	Constance Markievicz	Townsend Street	1998	Elizabeth McLaughlin
	Harmony	Pearse Square, Pearse Street	1998	Sandra Bell			[12]
	Units of Potential	Pearse Street	2011	Alice Rekab
	Táin Mosaic	Nassau Street	1974	Desmond Kinney
	William Plunket	Kildare Street
	Leinster Lawn Cenotaph Arthur Griffith Michael Collins Kevin O'Higgins	Leinster Lawn, Leinster House	1923	Raymond McGrath			A temporary structure was erected in 1923 on Leinster Lawn, this was replaced by this more modern version in 1950. [29]
	Prince Albert	Leinster Lawn, Leinster House	1868	John Henry Foley			Companion piece to statue of Queen Victoria which stood outside Leinster House on Kildare Street side. See Past Public Art section below
	Thomas Heazle Parke	Natural History Museum, Merrion Street
	William Dargan	National Gallery, Merrion Street	1853
	John McCormack	Iveagh Gardens	2008	Elizabeth O'Kane			[30]
	Fountain	Iveagh Gardens	1865	Ninian Niven			[31]
	The Kiss	Earlsfort Terrace	1989	Rowan Gillespie
	Lean	Earlsfort Terrace	2017	Caoimhe Kilfeather
	Reflections	Bank of Ireland, Baggot Street Lower	1978	Michael Bulfin			[32]
	Catherine McAuley	Baggot Street Lower	1994	Michael Burke			[33]
	Birdy	Upper Mount Street	1997	Rowan Gillespie
	Memories of Mount Street	Upper Mount Street	1988	Derek A. Fitzsimons
	Patrick Kavanagh	Grand Canal	1991	John Coll
	Liberty Scaling the Heights	Grand Canal Street	1995	Rowan Gillespie			[34]
	Overflow	Grand Canal Street	1997	Linda Brunker			[35]
	Grand Canal Square	Grand Canal Dock	2008	Martha Schwartz
	More Equal	Grand Canal Plaza	1999	Eilis O'Connell			[36]
	Queen Maedbh	Burlington Road	2004	Patrick O'Reilly
	Barge Horse	Herbert Place	1999	Maurice Harron
	An Gallán Gréine[37]	Sean Moore Park, Ringsend	1983	Clíodna Cussen			"Sun Stone"

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.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Henry Grattan	College Green	1876	John Henry Foley
	Thomas Davis	College Green	1966	Edward Delaney
	Four Angels Fountain Secondary piece to Davis Memorial	College Green	1966	Edward Delaney
	Crann an Óir	Central Plaza, Dame Street 53.344431°N 6.262783°W / 53.344431; -6.262783	1991	Éamonn O'Doherty			[38]
	Bronze Palm Tree seat	Temple Bar 53.345608°N 6.262580°W / 53.345608; -6.262580		Vincent Browne
	Oliver St. John Gogarty and James Joyce	Temple Bar
	Sir William Temple Plaque	Temple Bar/Temple Lane
	Molly Malone	Suffolk Street, previously Grafton Street 53.343753°N 6.260939°W / 53.343753; -6.260939	1988	Jeanne Rynhart
	Luke Kelly	South King Street	2019	John Coll			[14]
	Dublin Yeomanry Memorial	St. Andrew Street
	St Andrew	St. Andrew Street	1803
	Phil Lynott	Harry Street	2005	Paul Daly			"The Ace with the Bass"[39]
	Veronica Guerin	Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle	2001	John Coll
	Garda Memorial Garden	Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle	2010	Anna Dolan
	Serpent Water Feature	Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle	1994	Killian Shurmann
	Special Olympics	Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle	2003	John Behan
	Benjamin Guinness	St Patrick's Cathedral	1875	John Henry Foley
	Millennium Child	Christ Church Place 53.342802°N 6.271502°W / 53.342802; -6.271502	2000	John Behan			[40]
	Tree of Life	Peace Park, Christ Church Cathedral	1988	Leo Higgins, Colm Brennan
	Liberty Bell	St. Patrick's Park	1988	Vivienne Roche
	The Literary Parade Samuel Beckett Austin Clarke Brendan Behan James Joyce Seán O'Casey John Millington Synge W. B. Yeats George Bernard Shaw Oscar Wilde James Clarence Mangan Eilís Dillon Jonathan Swift	St. Patrick's Park	1988	Colm Brennan, John Coll
	Sentinel	Patrick Street	1994	Vivienne Roche
	The Obelisk Fountain	Thomas Street	1790	Francis Sandys
	Adult and Child Seat	St. Catherine's Park, Thomas Street	1988	Jim Flavin[41]			Commissioned as part of the AIB sponsored Dublin Millennium Sculpture Symposium 1988

Northside suburbs

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Michael Cusack	Croke Park	2011	Paul Ferriter
	Lock Keeper	10th lock, Royal Canal	2007
	Our Lady (Virgin Mary)	Our Lady's Park, Botanic Avenue	unknown - Marian year 1954?
	Seán Russell	Fairview Park	2009	Willie Malone			Original stone statue 1951
	Family Unit 1	Fairview Park	1988	Joe Moran
	Realt na Mára Mary, Queen of the Sea	North Bull Wall	1972	Cecil King
	Dancing Couple Stardust fire	Stardust Memorial Park, Coolock	1993	Robin Buick			[42]
	Misneach	Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun	2010	John Byrne			[43]
	Another Sphere	Ballymun	2009	Kevin Atherton			Consists of a pair of stainless steel hemispheres sited in two different parts of Balcurris Park in Ballymun.
	Cathode/Anode	Main Street, Ballymun	2005	Andrew Clancy			[44]
	Windsculpture	Clontarf Road/Alfie Byrne Road	1988	Éamonn O'Doherty
	Moai sculpture	Clontarf Road	2004	Alejandro Pakarati			Moai is the correct name for an Easter Island statue. Donated by the Government of Chile to the City of Dublin[45]
	Howth Fishermens' Association Memorial	Howth Harbour	1994
	Realt na Mára Star of the Sea[46]	Howth Pier	2013	Robert McColgan
	The Spirit of Finglas	Finglas village	1991	Leo Higgins
	Dick McKee Memorial	Finglas	1951
	Flags of the Easter Rising	Finglas	2016
	Liam Mellows	Finglas	2019
	Niche	Finglas Road 53.379986°N 6.288938°W / 53.379986; -6.288938	2007	Orla de Brí
	Let the Life Flow Through	Ballygall	1996	Elizabeth McLaughlin			[47]
	Phoenix Folly	Santry Demesne
	Luí-na-Gréine	Carrickbrack Road near Sutton Strand	Mid 2000s	Cliodhna Cussen			Granite carved Winter Solstice Sunset marking stone and viewing bench
	Tree of Life	Saint Anne's Park	2015	Tommy Craggs			Carved out of a dead Monterey cypress[48]
	Grass Seed	Saint Anne's Park	early 1970s	unknown			[49]
	The Mad Cow	Saint Anne's Park	1996	St. John Hennessy			[50]
	Eyes for You	Balgriffin	2018	Eileen MacDonagh			Wicklow granite sculpture commissioned by Cairn Homes and Dublin City Council. it is circa 3m high and weighs 5 tonnes.[51]
	Pisces	Chapelizod

Phoenix Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Wellington Monument	Phoenix Park	1861	Robert Smirke
	Phoenix Column	Phoenix Park	1747
	Papal Cross Pope John Paul II's visit to Ireland	Phoenix Park	1979	Paschal Clarke
	Memorial Cross Phoenix Park Murders	Phoenix Park	1883				[52]
	Seán Heuston	Phoenix Park	1943	Laurence Campbell
	Plinth of former statue of George Howard	Phoenix Park	1870				Statue blown up in 1958

Glasnevin Cemetery

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	O'Connell Tower	Glasnevin Cemetery
	Young Irelanders and Fenians Memorial	Glasnevin Cemetery
	Great War Monument	Glasnevin Cemetery
	Easter Rising Necrology Wall	Glasnevin Cemetery	2016
	Cross of Sacrifice	Glasnevin Cemetery	2014
	16th Irish Division Memorial	Glasnevin Cemetery	2016
	Great Famine Memorial	Glasnevin Cemetery	2016
	1916 Easter Rising Memorial	St Paul's, Glasnevin Cemetery	2016

National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	De Rerum Natura	National Botanic Gardens					Plaque on ground at entrance from carpark
	Between art and nature	National Botanic Gardens	2001	O'Connor			Alternative Latin title 'Inter artes et naturam'
	Socrates	National Botanic Gardens					[53]
	Sepian Blue	National Botanic Gardens	2007	Nasser Azam			[54]
	Kingdom of Plants Arising	National Botanic Gardens		Michael Quane			[55]
	Child and Ball Trough	National Botanic Gardens
	Craobh	National Botanic Gardens	1995	Gerard Cox			[56]
	Sensory Garden Sculpture	National Botanic Gardens					[57]
	Two Women	National Botanic Gardens
	Chinese Lion	National Botanic Gardens
	Double Helix	National Botanic Gardens	2013	Charles Jencks			[58]

Southside suburbs

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Proclamation group Proclamation of the Irish Republic	Kilmainham Gaol	2007	Rowan Gillespie
	Cross of Sacrifice	Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge	1940	Edwin Lutyens			[59]
	Stone of Remembrance	Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge	1940	Edwin Lutyens			[59]
	Freedom	AIB Bank Centre, Merrion Road		Alexandra Wejchert			[60]
	An Cailín Bán	Sandymount Strand	2002	Sebastián
	W. B. Yeats	Sandymount Green	1921	Albert G. Power
	Wave	Park West	2001	Angela Conner
	Dublin Brigade IRA memorial	Harold's Cross	1954				[61]
	Robert Emmet	Harold's Cross Road	2003				Erected by the Robert Emmet Association to commemorate his arrest at Palmer's House in 1803.
	Éamonn Ceannt	Éamonn Ceannt Park, Harold's Cross 53.322214°N 6.294121°W / 53.322214; -6.294121	1960s
	Who Made The World	Ballsbridge 53.328514°N 6.231763°W / 53.328514; -6.231763		Cliodna Cussen
	A Rhinoceros	Classon's Bridge, Milltown 53.307935°N 6.254403°W / 53.307935; -6.254403	2002	Unknown			[62]
	Horse (stallion)	Ballsbridge	1984				In the grounds of the Bewleys/Clayton Hotel
	Bird	Herbert Park, Ballsbridge	1990	Eoin Byrne
	Richard Crosbie	Ranelagh Gardens	2008	Rory Breslin

University College Dublin

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Noah's Egg	Veterinary building, UCD	2004	Rachel Joynt
	Judgement	Sutherland School of Law, UCD
	Iphigenia	Restaurant Building, UCD	1984	Tom Glendon

North County Dublin

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Spirit of the Air	Dublin Airport roundabout	1991	Richard Enda King
	Hiroshima Memorial Sculpture	Dublin Airport		Vincent Browne
	Mother and Child	Dublin Airport
	Eccentric orbit	Portmarnock Beach	2002	Rachel Joynt, Remco de Fouw			[63]
	The Ammonite	Malahide Marina	2000	Niall O'Neill
	St. Doulagh's Cross	St Doulagh's Church, Malahide Road	Early Medieval	Unknown
	Séamus Ennis	Naul, Dublin
	Thomas Ashe	Hand's Lane, Regles, Lusk, Dublin	2017	Paul D'Arcy
	Cut stone corbelled Beehive huts	Balbriggan bypass near the Meath border	2001	Robert McColgan and Irene Benner[64]			Inspired by St. Molach a beekeeper
	Inverted Oil Rig	Father Collins Park, Clongriffin	2012	Alan Phelan

South County Dublin

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	The Fiddler of Dooney	Stillorgan Shopping Centre		Imogen Stuart			[65]
	Stillorgan Obelisk	Stillorgan
	William Orpen	Stillorgan	2018	Rowan Gillespie			[66]
	Blackrock Dolmen	Blackrock	1987	Rowan Gillespie
	Blackrock Cross	Blackrock	8th or 9th Century	unknown
	St. Maelruan's Losset	Tallaght	Unknown but possibly ancient	Unknown
	Killiney Hill Obelisk	Killiney Hill	1742	John Mapas
	The Marker Tree[67]	Kingswood interchange, N7	2011	Andreas Kopp

Dún Laoghaire

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Queen Victoria Fountain	Dún Laoghaire
	Capt. J. McNeil Boyd Obelisk	Dún Laoghaire Harbour		Royal St. George Yacht Club
	George IV Obelisk	Dún Laoghaire	1823				[68]
	Christ the King	Dún Laoghaire	1978	Andrew O'Connor			[68]
	Archer II	Dún Laoghaire		Niall O'Neill
	Commemorative Trees Stone	People's Park, Dún Laoghaire
	Mothership	Glasthule	1999	Rachel Joynt
	Thus Daedalus Flew	Killiney Hill	1986	Niall O'Neill

Past public art

Image	Title / subject	Location	Date	Artist / designer	Notes and references
	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 today.[69]
	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.[70]
	William of Orange	College Green	1701–1928	Grinling Gibbons	Damaged after explosion on anniversary of Armistice Day in 1928, and subsequently removed.[71] Melted down in 1946.
	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".[72] It was subsequently replaced by Cliodhna Cussen's The Steine of Long Stone in 1986.
	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)[73]
	The Market Cross	The junction of High Street and Skinner’s Row (now Christchurch Place)	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.[74]
	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.[75][76]
	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[77]
	William Blakeney	O'Connell Street	1759–1782	John van Nost the younger	Removed sometime before 1782[78]
	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.[79][80][81]
	Gough Monument	Phoenix Park	1880–1957	John Henry Foley	Blown up in 1957, it was later restored and re-erected in the grounds of Chillingham Castle, England, in 1990.[43][82]
	George Howard	Phoenix Park	1870–1956	John Henry Foley	The statue was dislodged by a bomb in 1956 and moved to Castle Howard in Yorkshire. The pedestal remains in place as a memorial.[83]
	Millennium Clock	River Liffey	March to August 1996
	The Point Rocket	Point Theatre	2006–?
	Three Bears with Attitude	North Wall Quay (3Arena)	2009–2017	Patrick O'Reilly	Removed in 2017, current whereabouts unknown.[84]

External links

Poem: Our Statues Go Unwatched, Katie Martin, IrishTimes 5 July 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2020

See also

• List of public art in Belfast
• List of public art in Cork city
• List of public art in Galway city
• List of public art in Limerick

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