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
	O'Connell Monument	O'Connell Street 53.347725°N 6.259314°W / 53.347725; -6.259314	1882	John Henry Foley (and later Thomas Brock)
	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	1956	Gabriel Hayes
	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
	The Joyce Trail	O'Connell Street (and 13 other locations)	1988	Robin Buick[4]			14 bronze plaques set into the streets of Dublin, commemorating Ulysses (1922)

North Quays

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Famine Great Famine	Custom House Quay	1997	Rowan Gillespie			[5]
	World Poverty Stone UN International Day for the Eradication of World Poverty	Custom House Quay	2008	Stuart 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	2004	Unknown			[6]
	Meeting Place	Lower Liffey Street	1988	Jackie McKenna			Nicknamed "The Hags with the Bags" [7][8]
	Anna Livia The River Liffey	Croppies Acre Memorial Park, Wolfe Tone Quay	1988	Éamonn 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	1998	Edward Delaney
	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.[10]
	Restless: Liffey Love	North Wall, Dublin	2024	Rhona Byrne			Benches made of recycled plastic recovered from the River Liffey.[11]
	Triumphal arch	George's Dock near river Liffey	1813, repositioned 1998	Unknown			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.

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[12]			Nicknamed "The Prick with the Stick"[13][12]
	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[14]
	Talking Heads	Abbey Street	1990	Carolyn Mulholland
	Chariot of Life	Abbey Street	1982	Oisín Kelly
	James Connolly	Beresford Place	1996	Éamonn O'Doherty[15]
	Universal Links on Human Rights Jails holding prisoners of conscience	Amiens Street	1995	Tony O'Malley[15]
	Battle of the Custom House Memorial	Memorial Road	1957	Yann Goulet
	Scáthán	Store Street	2007	Robert McColgan[16]
	Luke Kelly	Sheriff Street	2019	Vera Klute[17][15]
	NC Iris	Mayor Square, IFSC, Dublin Docklands	2006	Vivienne 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	1999	Don Cronin			Part of a pair 'Bear and Bull'. Bull sculpture is in lobby on other side of building.
	Bull	IFSC House	1999	Don Cronin			Part of a pair 'Bear and Bull'. Bear sculpture outside the other side of building.
	Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial	Talbot Street	1997	Oisín Kelly
	Dublin and Monaghan bombings Memorial	Parnell Street	2008
	Summerhill Group	Summerhill	1991	Cathy 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	1993	Fred Conlon			[21]
	Home	Buckingham Street	2000	Leo Higgins			[22]
	The Five Lamps[23] General Henry Hall Memorial	Amiens Street/North Strand	c.1880	George 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	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
	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 1971	Unknown			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."

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			"Enjoying the sun"[24]
	Easter Rising Memorial	Arbour Hill Cemetery
	The Healing Hands	Mater Plot/Berkeley Road	2000	Tony O'Malley
	Four Masters Memorial	Four Masters Park (former Mater Plot)	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 53.35754°N 6.270686°W / 53.35754; -6.270686	1994	Austin McQuinn
	Éire 1798 Memorial	St. Michan's Park	1903	Unknown
	Our Lady, Queen of Peace	Broadstone	unknown - Marian year 1954?
	The O'Rahilly	O'Rahilly Parade	2005	Shane Cullen
	Demolition Dave	Smithfield Luas stop	2004	James Gannon			Commissioned by the Railway Procurement Agency to celebrate the life of demolition manager Dave Conway
	Utah teapot	Smithfield, Dublin	2021	Alan Butler			[25]
	Jerome Connor	Infirmary Road, Dublin 7		Unknown			Bronze plaque overlooking phoenix park
	Spiderweb Sculpture	Corner of Western Way and Mountjoy Street	2003	Kathleen 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 Century	King'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)	2004	John 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]

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			[28]
	Apples and Atoms Ernest Walton	Trinity College 53.343575°N 6.252427°W / 53.343575; -6.252427	2013	Eilis O'Connell			[29]
	Countermovement	Trinity College	1985	Michael Warren			[30]

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			[31]
	Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa	St Stephen's Green
	James Joyce	St Stephen's Green	1982	Marjorie Fitzgibbon			[12]
	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			See Robert Emmet (Connor)
	Tom Kettle	St Stephen's Green	1919 (bust) 1927 (memorial)	Albert G. Power			[32]
	Constance Markievicz	St Stephen's Green
	Three Fates	St Stephen's Green	1956	Joseph Wackerle			[33]
	Lady Laura Grattan Font	St Stephen's Green North	1880				[34]
	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			[35]
	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				The memorial is located at a garden for the blind, where the names of scented plants are labelled in braille[36]
	Eqyptian and Nubian noblewomen	Shelbourne Hotel, St Stephen's Green	1867	Mathurin Moreau			4 statues outside the Shelbourne Hotel[37]

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			[24]
	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			[24]
	Joker's Chair Dermot Morgan	Merrion Square Park 53.339917°N 6.248921°W / 53.339917; -6.248921	2002	Catherine Greene			[24]
	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

Iveagh Gardens

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

South Quays

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Matt Talbot	City Quay	1988	James Power			[15]
	Irish Merchant Navy Memorial	Elizabeth O'Farrell Park on City Quay	1990
	Admiral William Brown	Sir John Rogerson's Quay 53.346040°N 6.239526°W / 53.346040; -6.239526	2006				[15]
	Gaswork	Sir John Rogerson's Quay 53.34591°N 6.235546°W / 53.34591; -6.235546	2012	John Kindness			Commissioned by Bord Gáis to commemorate the history of gas in Dublin[39]
	The Linesman	City Quay 53.347082°N 6.249143°W / 53.347082; -6.249143	1999	Dony MacManus			[15]
	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			[40]

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	1857	Christopher Moore
	Long Stone replica	College Street	1986	Cliodhna 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.
	Constance Markievicz	Townsend Street	1998	Elizabeth McLaughlin			Also show her cocker spaniel dog called Poppet.
	Harmony	Pearse Square, Pearse Street	1998	Sandra Bell			[15]
	Units of Potential	Pearse Street	2011	Alice Rekab
	Táin Mosaic	Nassau Street	1974	Desmond Kinney
	William Plunket	Kildare Street	1901	Hamo Thornycroft			[42]
	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.[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	1930s	Leo Broe			[44]
	Industry and Fame	Leinster House	1908	John 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.
	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
	The Kiss	Earlsfort Terrace	1989	Rowan Gillespie
	Lean	Earlsfort Terrace	2017	Caoimhe Kilfeather			Commissioned by the law firm Arthur Cox
	An SpéirBhean	Windsor Place, Pembroke Street	1990	Robin Buick			Also called Sky Woman or Heavenly Woman
	Reflections	Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower	1978	Michael Bulfin			[45]
	Red Cardinal	Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street Lower	1978	John Burke			[45]
	Catherine McAuley	Baggot Street Lower	1994	Michael Burke			[46]
	Somewhere between Andromeda and Vulpecula: Sky Atlas	Percy Place, off Haddington Road 53.334452°N 6.244131°W / 53.334452; -6.244131	2014	Isabel Nolan
	Birdy	Upper Mount Street	1997	Rowan Gillespie
	Memories of Mount Street	Upper Mount Street	1988	Derek A. Fitzsimons
	Brian Friel and John B. Keane	Upper Mount Street 53.336593°N 6.243247°W / 53.336593; -6.243247	1994	Neil C. Breen			Previously the statues were inside the window of a nearby building. Moved outside c. 2017
	Easter Rising	Mount Street Bridge					[47]
	Carnac	Upper Leeson Street	1979	Bob Mulcahy			Granite abstract sculpture located on the traffic island.[48]
	Patrick Kavanagh	Grand Canal	1991	John Coll
	Overflow	Grand Canal Street	1997	Linda Brunker			[49]
	Grand Canal Square	Grand Canal Dock	2008	Martha Schwartz
	Dodder Buoy	Grand Canal Dock
	More Equal	Grand Canal Plaza	1999	Eilis O'Connell			[50]
	Queen Maedbh	Burlington Road	2004	Patrick O'Reilly
	Barge Horse	Herbert Place	1999	Maurice Harron
	An Gallán Gréine[51]	Sean Moore Park, Irishtown	1983	Clíodna Cussen			"Sun Stone"
	Irish Mercantile Marine World War II memorial	Irishtown 53.337867°N 6.219618°W / 53.337867; -6.219618	1984				[52]
	William Ashford	Irishtown 53.339345°N 6.223015°W / 53.339345; -6.223015	1893				[53]
	James Joyce	Grounds of the Merrion Hotel		Rowan Gillespie			2m high bronze statue titled Ripples of Ulysses
	Bláthú	South Bank House, Barrow Street		Sean Atmos			[54]

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			[55]
	Bronze Palm Tree seat	Temple Bar 53.345608°N 6.262580°W / 53.345608; -6.262580		Vincent Browne
	Love Lane	Crampton Court 53.344666°N 6.266604°W / 53.344666; -6.266604	2014	Anna Doran[56]			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.[56]
	Oliver St. John Gogarty and James Joyce	Temple Bar
	Sir William Temple Plaque	Temple Bar/Temple Lane
	Molly Malone	Suffolk Street, 53.343753°N 6.260939°W / 53.343753; -6.260939	1988	Jeanne Rynhart			Previously Grafton Street from 1988 to 2014
	Luke Kelly	South King Street	2019	John Coll			[17]
	Dublin Yeomanry Memorial	St. Andrew Street
	St Andrew	St. Andrew Street	1803
	Phil Lynott	Harry Street	2005	Paul Daly			"The Ace with the Bass"[57]
	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.[58][59]
	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	Christchurch Place 53.342802°N 6.271502°W / 53.342802; -6.271502	2000	John Behan			[60]
	Tree of Life	Peace Park, Christ Church Cathedral	1988	Leo Higgins, Colm Brennan
	John Field	Golden Lane 53.34053°N 6.269918°W / 53.34053; -6.269918
	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[61]			Commissioned as part of the AIB sponsored Dublin Millennium Sculpture Symposium 1988
	Homeless Jesus	Christ Church Cathedral		Timothy Schmalz
	Rialto	Rialto 53.336249°N 6.298801°W / 53.336249; -6.298801	2000	Sandra Bell
	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	1984	Kevin Buckley
	Irish writers	The pavement in front of The Palace Bar on Fleet Street 53.34584°N 6.25960°W / 53.34584; -6.25960	2011	Jarlath 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
	Gulliver's Travels	53-58 Golden Lane 53.34071°N 6.26954°W / 53.34071; -6.26954	1996	Michael C Keane			Eight terracotta plaques, or roundals, affixed to the second floor of a red brick building depicting scenes from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, specifically the first part of the book, entitled 'A Voyage to Lilliput'.[62] Swift was Dean of nearby St Patrick's Cathedral. The works were commissioned by Dublin City Corporation, and awarded to Terry Cartin of Cartin Ceramics, whom Michael C Keane and Mo Maloney worked with "on many projects".[63]
	Rory Gallagher	Rory Gallagher Corner, Temple Bar 53.34531°N 6.26543°W / 53.34531; -6.26543					A life-size bronze statue in the shape of Gallagher's Fender Stratocaster guitar

Northside suburbs

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Lock Keeper	10th lock, Royal Canal, Ashtown	2007
	Martin Savage	Ashtown	1948
	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.[64]
	Michael Cusack	Croke Park, Jones Road	2011	Paul Ferriter
	Harry McEntee	St. Margaret's Road					Memorial to Harry McEntee killed during the Irish Civil War.
	Let the Life Flow Through	Ballygall	1996	Elizabeth McLaughlin			[65]
	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.
	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			[66]
	Misneach	Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun	2010	John Byrne			[67]
	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	2004	Alejandro Pakarati			Moai is the correct name for an Easter Island statue. Donated by the Government of Chile to the City of Dublin[68]
	Realt na Mára Mary, Queen of the Sea	Bull Wall, Clontarf	1972	Cecil King
	Windsculpture	Clontarf Road / Alfie Byrne Road	1988	Éamonn O'Doherty
	Dancing Couple Stardust fire	Stardust Memorial Park, Coolock	1993	Robin Buick			[69]
	Family Unit 1	Fairview Park	1988	Joe Moran
	Seán Russell	Fairview Park	2009	Willie Malone			Original stone statue 1951
	Flags of the Easter Rising	Finglas	2016
	Liam Mellows	Finglas	2019
	The Nethercross	St. Canice's graveyard, Finglas	9th century				In current location since 1806[70]
	Niche	Finglas Road 53.379986°N 6.288938°W / 53.379986; -6.288938	2007	Orla de Brí
	The Spirit of Finglas	Finglas village centre	1991	Leo Higgins
	The Bridge Fiacha Dhubha Fhionglaise ar Foluain	Kildonan Park, Finglas 53.392995°N 6.312254°W / 53.392995; -6.312254	2021	Sara Cunnigham-Bell			Finglas Ravens Soar[71]
	Our Lady (Virgin Mary)	Our Lady's Park, Drumcondra	unknown - Marian year 1954?
	Howth Fishermens' Association Memorial	Howth Harbour	1994
	Realt na Mára Star of the Sea[72]	Howth Fishing Pier	2013	Robert McColgan
	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 1970s	unknown			[24]
	The Mad Cow	Saint Anne's Park	1996	St. John Hennessy			[24]
	Tree of Life	Saint Anne's Park	2015	Tommy Craggs			Carved out of a dead Monterey cypress[73]
	Phoenix Folly	Santry Demesne 53.402062°N 6.245553°W / 53.402062; -6.245553
	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.
	Luí-na-Gréine	Carrickbrack Road, near Sutton Strand	Mid 2000s	Cliodhna Cussen			Granite carved Winter Solstice Sunset marking stone and viewing bench
	RMS Tayleur	Portrane

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				[74]
	Seán Heuston	Phoenix Park	1943	Laurence Campbell
	Plinth of former statue of George Howard	Phoenix Park	1870				Statue blown up in 1958

Farmleigh

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Convergence	Farmleigh	2004	Brian King			Commissioned to celebrate the accession of 10 new states to the EU in 2004[75]
	Statue in Fountain	Farmleigh					Carved carrara marble fountain with putti figures[76]
		Farmleigh		Tony Cragg
	Éan Mór	Farmleigh		Breon O'Casey			Part of a series of bird statues in bronze and wood
	Remembering	Farmleigh		John Wiedman			Inspired by a machine that made milk substitute for Air Force personnel stationed in Newfoundland, Canada
	Hybrid Vigour	Farmleigh		James Gannon

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					[77]
	Sepian Blue	National Botanic Gardens	2007	Nasser Azam			[78]
	Kingdom of Plants Arising	National Botanic Gardens		Michael Quane			[79]
	Child and Ball Trough	National Botanic Gardens
	Craobh	National Botanic Gardens	1995	Gerard Cox			[80]
	Sensory Garden Sculpture	National Botanic Gardens					[81]
	Two Women	National Botanic Gardens
	Chinese Lion	National Botanic Gardens
	Double Helix	National Botanic Gardens	2013	Charles Jencks			[82]

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			[83]
	Stone of Remembrance	Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge	1940	Edwin Lutyens			[83]
	Sunken Rose Garden and granite Bookrooms	Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge	1940	Edwin Lutyens			[83]
	Domed Temple	Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge	1940	Edwin Lutyens			[83]
	Freedom	Facebook campus, Merrion Road		Alexandra Wejchert			[84]
	An Cailín Bán	Sandymount Strand	2002	Sebastián
	W. B. Yeats	Sandymount Green	1921	Albert Power
	Seamus Heaney	Sandymount Green	2016	Carolyn Mulholland			[85]
	Wave	Park West	2001	Angela Conner
	Dublin Brigade IRA memorial	Harold's Cross	1954				[86]
	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
	Arthur Morrison Monument	Donnybrook	1838				Monument in the shape of a small obelisk.[87]
	Who Made The World	Ballsbridge 53.328514°N 6.231763°W / 53.328514; -6.231763		Cliodna Cussen
	Horse (stallion)	Ballsbridge	1984				In the grounds of the Bewleys/Clayton Hotel. Formerly the Masonic Female Orphan School of Ireland.
	Bird	Herbert Park, Ballsbridge	1990	Eoin Byrne
	Richard Crosbie	Ranelagh Gardens	2008	Rory Breslin
	A Rhinoceros	Classon's Bridge, Milltown 53.307935°N 6.254403°W / 53.307935; -6.254403	2002	Unknown			[88]
	unknown	Corner of Con Colbert Road and Chapelizod Bypass (R148 road) 53.342765°N 6.320170°W / 53.342765; -6.320170	unknown	unknown

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	2013	Rowan 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.
	Iphigenia	Restaurant Building, UCD	1984	Tom Glendon

North County Dublin

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	The Nature Goddess	Millennium Park, Blanchardstown 53.388719°N 6.398475°W / 53.388719; -6.398475	2018	Richie Clarke
	Inverted Oil Rig	Father Collins Park, Clongriffin	2012	Alan Phelan			As of September 2020, it has been removed from the lake and is in storage in the park.
	Thomas Ashe	Lusk, Dublin	2017	Paul D'Arcy
	M1 Poppies	M1 Lissenhall exit to the R126	2012	Douglas Mooney			5 wind-moved solar-powered illuminated poppies[89]
	Beehive huts	Balbriggan bypass, near the Meath border	2001	Robert McColgan and Irene Benner[90]			Inspired by St. Molach, a beekeeper.
	Open Volumes	Balbriggan	2007	Mark Ryan
	The Ammonite	Malahide Marina	2000	Niall O'Neill
	Séamus Ennis	Naul, Dublin
	Eccentric orbit	Portmarnock Beach	2002	Rachel Joynt, Remco de Fouw			[91]
	St. Doulagh's Cross	St Doulagh's Church, Malahide Road	Early Medieval	Unknown
	James Hans Hamilton	Skerries, Dublin	1870				Hamilton Monument in the shape of an obelisk[92]
	Tidy Towns sculpture	Skerries, Dublin	2016	Shane Holland			Commemorates Skerries winning the Tidy Towns competition in 2016
	The Skerries and Loughshinny Sea Pole	Skerries, Dublin	2013	Shane 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.
	Percy French	Skerries, Dublin	2008	Bríd Ní Rinn			The view from Skerries inspired Percy French to write The Mountains of Mourne.
	Cormorant	Skerries, Dublin	2002	Bríd Ní Rinn
	Terns	Skerries, Dublin	2004	Bríd Ní Rinn

Dublin airport

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Hiroshima Memorial Sculpture	Dublin Airport		Vincent Browne
	Mother and Child	Dublin Airport
	The Spirit of the Air	Dublin Airport roundabout 53.428370°N 6.229659°W / 53.428370; -6.229659	1991	Richard Enda King			King's design was chosen from 97 entries, and was made from reinforced concrete and Dublin granite.[93] It is 55ft high.[93] 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".[93]
	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.
	Hugging sculpture (correct name unknown)	Dublin Airport 53.429246°N 6.243513°W / 53.429246; -6.243513	unknown	unknown

South County Dublin

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Famine cross	Ballinascorney	c. 1850
	Blackrock Dolmen	Blackrock	1987	Rowan Gillespie
	Blackrock Cross	Blackrock	8th or 9th Century	unknown
	Killiney Hill Obelisk	Killiney Hill	1742	John Mapas
	Patrick Sarsfield	Lucan, County Dublin	c. 1790				[94]
	The Marker Tree[95]	N7, Kingswood interchange	2011	Andreas Kopp
	Anne Devlin[96]	Rathfarnham	2003	Clodagh Emoe			Erected by the Anne Devlin Commemoration Association. Life-size bronze statue of Anne Devlin, Robert Emmet's loyal friend and supporter.
	Breaking Emmet's Block	Rathfarnham	2016	Alice Rekab			Inspired by the megalithic follies in Saint Enda's Park and Emmet's Block in the Pearse Museum.
	Love All	Templeogue 53.298334°N 6.303925°W / 53.298334; -6.303925	2007	Rachel Joynt			[97]
	Stillorgan Obelisk	Stillorgan	1727	Edward Lovett Pearce
	William Orpen	Stillorgan	2018	Rowan Gillespie			[98]
	The Fiddler of Dooney	Stillorgan Shopping Centre		Imogen Stuart			[99]
	St. Maelruan's Losset	Tallaght	Unknown but possibly ancient	Unknown
	Cliabhan (cradle)[100]	Tymon Park, Tallaght	2006	Linda 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.
	Unity	Cherrywood 53.242272°N 6.139242°W / 53.242272; -6.139242	2021	Sandra Bell			[101]

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				[102]
	Christ the King	Dún Laoghaire	1978	Andrew O'Connor			[102]
	Archer II	Dún Laoghaire		Niall O'Neill
	Roger Casement	Dún Laoghaire	2021	Mark Richards
	Commemorative Trees Stone	People's Park, Dún Laoghaire
	Mothership	Glasthule	1999	Rachel Joynt
	Thus Daedalus Flew	Killiney Hill	1986	Niall O'Neill
	Sun Worshipper	Crosthwaite Park 53.286756°N 6.134243°W / 53.286756; -6.134243	unknown	unknown
	Sculpture reminiscent of a Moai from Easter Island	Glenageary Road Upper, Glenageary 53.278468°N 6.131402°W / 53.278468; -6.131402	unknown	unknown

Past public art

Image	Title / subject	Location	Date	Artist / designer	Notes and references
	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.[103]
	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.[104]
	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.[105][106]
	William of Orange	College Green	1701–1929	Grinling Gibbons	Damaged after explosion on anniversary of Armistice Day in 1928, and subsequently removed in 1929.[107] Melted down in 1946. [citation needed]
	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".[108] 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)[109]
	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.
	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.[110]
	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.[111][112] The smaller bronze statues are held in storage within the grounds of the National museum overflow facility at St Conleth's Reformatory School.
	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[113]
	William Blakeney	O'Connell Street	1759–1782	John van Nost the younger	Removed sometime before 1782[114]
	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.[115][116][117]
	Sir Alexander Macdonnell	Marlborough Street	1878–1958	Thomas Farrell[118]	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.[119]
	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.[67][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.[120] In the manner of a similar statue by Peter Scheemakers.
	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.[121]
	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.[122]
	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. One of them is in the Vicar Street bar.[123]
	Aspiration – Liberty Scaling the Heights	Grand Canal Street	1995–2020	Rowan Gillespie	Removed in 2020[124][125]
	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'.[126]
	The Claddagh Embrace	Corner of Dame Street and South Great George's Street	10-29 April 2015 (approx.)	Joe Caslin	Installed during the night on Friday 10 April 2015 in the weeks prior to the 2015 Irish constitutional referendum on same-sex marriage on 22 May 2015. "After 19 days, the wind and the rain began to take it (the mural) down".[127]

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.

See also

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• 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