Editing Richard Harris (section)

== Memorials and legacy ==

[[File:Richard Harris Statue Kilkee 2007.jpg|thumb|right|A statue in [[Kilkee]], Ireland, of the young Harris playing [[racquetball]]]]

On 30 September 2006, Manuel Di Lucia, of [[Kilkee]], County Clare, a longtime friend, organised the placement in Kilkee of a bronze life-size statue of Richard Harris. It shows Harris at the age of eighteen playing the sport of [[Racquetball]]. (He had won the local competition three or four consecutive times during the late 1940s.) The sculptor was Seamus Connolly and the work was unveiled by [[Russell Crowe]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/?c=ENTERTAINMENT&jp=cwqlsnkfidau&d=2 |work=BreakingNews.ie |date=2 October 2006 |title=Crowe pays tribute to Harris at Irish ceremony}}</ref> Harris was an accomplished [[squash racquets]] player, winning the Tivoli Cup in Kilkee four consecutive years (1948 to 1951), a record unsurpassed to this day.<ref name="Richard Harris and the Tivoli Cup">{{cite web|url=http://www.kilkee.ie/about_history_tivolicup.html |title=Tivoli Cup in Kilkee |publisher=kilkee.ie |access-date=21 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810075626/http://www.kilkee.ie/about_history_tivolicup.html |archive-date=10 August 2011  }}</ref>

Another life-size statue of Richard Harris, as King Arthur from his film ''[[Camelot (film)|Camelot]]'', has been erected in Bedford Row, in the centre of his home town of Limerick. The sculptor of this statue was the Irish sculptor Jim Connolly, a graduate of the [[Limerick School of Art and Design]].

At the 2009 BAFTAs, [[Mickey Rourke]] dedicated his Best Actor award to Harris, calling him a "good friend and great actor".

In 2013, Rob Gill and Zeb Moore founded the annual [[Richard Harris International Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.richardharrisfilmfestival.com/|title=Richard Harris International Film Festival|date=19 May 2022}}</ref>
The Richard Harris Film Festival is one of Ireland's fastest-growing film festivals, growing from just ten films in 2013 to over 115 films in 2017. Each year, one of Harris's sons attends the festival in Limerick.

In 2015, the Limerick Writers' Centre unveiled a commemorative plaque outside Charlie St George's pub on Parnell Street. The pub was a favourite drinking place of Harris on his visits to Limerick. The plaque, celebrating Harris's literary output as part of a Literary Walking Tour of Limerick, was unveiled by his son Jared Harris.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://limerickwriterscentre.com/|title=Limerickwriters|website=Limerickwriters}}</ref>

In 1996, Harris was honoured with a [[List of people on the postage stamps of Ireland#1990s|commemorative Irish postage stamp]] for the "Centenary of Irish Cinema", a four-stamp set featuring twelve Irish actors in four Irish films.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stamp Irish Cinema - The Field, Ireland 1996 |url=https://stampes.net/product/198055 |access-date=27 February 2023 |website=stampes.net |archive-date=27 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227141121/https://stampes.net/product/198055 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Field |url=https://connemara.irish/news/media/the-field |access-date=27 February 2023 |website=Connemara Irish |language=en}}</ref> He was again honoured in ‘Irish Abroad’ stamps in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Staff Reporter |date=27 February 2020 |title=An Post release St. Patrick's Day stamp of Richard Harris |url=https://www.limerickpost.ie/2020/02/27/an-post-release-st-patricks-day-stamp-of-richard-harris/ |access-date=27 February 2023 |website=Limerick Post Newspaper |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Ridley Scott, who directed Harris in ''Gladiator'', would later cast [[Paul Mescal]] as Lucius Verus in ''[[Gladiator II]]'' in part because Mescal clocked a resemblance with Harris, who portrayed his character's grandfather in the original film.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gq.com/story/paul-mescal-enters-the-arena-in-gladiator-ii |title=Paul Mescal Enters the Arena in ''Gladiator II'' |date=October 15, 2024 |accessdate=November 5, 2024}}</ref>