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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. {{Public art header|show_material=no|show_dimensions=no|show_owner=no|show_wikidata=no}} {{Public art row |image = Henry Grattan oversee his Parliament.JPG |subject = [[Henry Grattan]] |location = [[College Green, Dublin|College Green]] |date = 1876 |artist = [[John Henry Foley]] |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Dame Street - Thomas Davis.jpg |subject = [[Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)|Thomas Davis]] |location = College Green |date = 1966 |artist = [[Edward Delaney]] |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Dublin College Green Fountain.JPG |subject = Four Angels Fountain<br />{{small|Secondary piece to Davis Memorial}} |location = College Green |date = 1966 |artist = Edward Delaney |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Sculpture, Dame Street - geograph.org.uk - 1470899.jpg |subject = Crann an Óir |location = Central Plaza, [[Dame Street]] |date = 1991 |artist = [[Éamonn O'Doherty (sculptor)|Éamonn O'Doherty]] |coordinates = {{coord|53.344431|-6.262783}} |notes = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publicart.ie/main/directory/directory/view/crann-an-oir/35b4198993522d6af90f6a77bb2e634c/|title=Crann an Óir|work=publicart.ie|access-date=21 March 2015}}</ref> }} {{Public art row |image = Palm Tree sculpture, Temple Bar, Dublin.jpg |subject = Bronze Palm Tree seat |location = [[Temple Bar, Dublin|Temple Bar]] |date = |artist = [[Vincent Browne (sculptor)|Vincent Browne]] |coordinates = {{coord|53.345608|-6.262580}} |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Crampton Court, Dublin, Ireland. 1.jpg |subject = Love Lane |location = [[Crampton Court, Dublin|Crampton Court]] |date = 2014 |artist = Anna Doran<ref name = NR>{{Cite web|last=Ryan|first=Nicky|date=2018-06-23|title=This Temple Bar alleyway has been transformed into something special...|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/love-lane-temple-bar-street-art-4086443-Jun2018/|access-date=2022-11-10|website=[[TheJournal.ie]]|language=en}}</ref> |coordinates = {{coord|53.344666|-6.266604}} |notes = 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.<ref name = NR>{{Cite web|last=Ryan|first=Nicky|date=2018-06-23|title=This Temple Bar alleyway has been transformed into something special...|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/love-lane-temple-bar-street-art-4086443-Jun2018/|access-date=2022-11-10|website=[[TheJournal.ie]]|language=en}}</ref> }} {{Public art row |image = Temple Bar (Dublin, Ireland) (8114812405).jpg |subject = [[Oliver St. John Gogarty]] and [[James Joyce]] |location = Temple Bar |date = |artist = |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Sir William Temple Plaque - Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland - August 2008.jpg |subject = [[William Temple (logician)|Sir William Temple]] Plaque |location = Temple Bar/Temple Lane |date = |artist = |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Molly malone grafton street-edit.jpg |subject = [[Molly Malone]] |location = Suffolk Street, |date = 1988 |artist = [[Jeanne Rynhart]] |coordinates = {{coord|53.343753|-6.260939}} |notes = Previously [[Grafton Street]] from 1988 to 2014 }} {{Public art row |image = Luke Kelly South King Street.jpg |subject = [[Luke Kelly]] |location = South King Street |date = 2019 |artist = John Coll |coordinates = |notes = <ref name=LukeKelly>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/0122/1024860-two-new-statues-of-luke-kelly-to-be-unveiled-in-dublin/|work=RTÉ News|title=Two new statues of Luke Kelly to be unveiled in Dublin|date=22 January 2019}}</ref> }} {{Public art row |image = Dublin Yeomanry Memorial, Andrew St.jpg |subject = Dublin Yeomanry Memorial |location = St. Andrew Street |date = |artist = |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = St Andrew statue, Dublin.jpg |subject = [[Andrew the Apostle|St Andrew]] |location = St. Andrew Street |date = 1803 |artist = |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Philip Lynott Dublin Statue.jpg |subject = [[Phil Lynott]] |location = Harry Street |date = 2005 |artist = [[Paul Daly (sculptor)|Paul Daly]] |coordinates = |notes = "The Ace with the Bass"<ref>{{Google books|id=SIL32r2xSRYC|page=10|title=Dublin City Trip 2011}}</ref> }} {{Public art row |image = Why go bald.jpg |subject = Why go Bald |location = [[Dame Lane]], off South Great Georges Street |date = 1962 |artist = |coordinates = {{coord|53.343972|-6.264270}} |notes = An advertising sign for the Universal Hair and Scalp Clinic. It was restored in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/citys-iconic-why-go-bald-sign-gets-heritage-grant-40389685.html|work=Irish Independent|title=City's iconic 'Why go Bald?' sign gets heritage grant|date=5 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/why-go-bald-sign#:~:text=Known%20locally%20as%20Mr.,based%20family%2Dsignmakers%20Taylor%20Signs.|work=Atlas Obscura|title='Why Go Bald' Sign|access-date=31 May 2021}}</ref> }} {{Public art row |image = Veronica Guerin.jpg |subject = [[Veronica Guerin]] |location = Dubhlinn Gardens, [[Dublin Castle]] |date = 2001 |artist = John Coll |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = 20130807 dublin067.JPG |subject = [[Garda Síochána|Garda]] Memorial Garden |location = Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle |date = 2010 |artist = Anna Dolan |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Dublin Castle o15.jpg |subject = Serpent Water Feature |location = Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle |date = 1994 |artist = Killian Shurmann |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = 20130809 dublin165.JPG |subject = [[Special Olympics]] |location = Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle |date = 2003 |artist = [[John Behan (sculptor)|John Behan]] |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Dublin St. Patrick's Cathedral Statue of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness 2012 09 26.jpg |subject = [[Benjamin Guinness]] |location = [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin|St Patrick's Cathedral]] |date = 1875 |artist = John Henry Foley |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = John Behan - Millennium Child (2000) statue and plaque.jpg |subject = Millennium Child |location = [[Christchurch Place]] |date = 2000 |artist = John Behan |coordinates = {{coord|53.342802|-6.271502}} |notes = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-millennium-child-sculpture-christchurch-place-dublin-ireland-24163823.html|title=Millennium child sculpture|work=alamy.com|access-date=20 September 2017}}</ref> }} {{Public art row |image = Peace Park - Fountain and Tree of Life sculpture.jpg |subject = Tree of Life |location = [[Peace Park, Dublin|Peace Park]], [[Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin|Christ Church Cathedral]] |date = 1988 |artist = Leo Higgins,<br />Colm Brennan |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = John Field memorial.jpg |subject = [[John Field (composer)|John Field]] |location = [[Golden Lane, Dublin|Golden Lane]] |date = |artist = |coordinates = {{coord|53.34053|-6.269918}} |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Park Beside Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin (3130830443).jpg |subject = Liberty Bell |location = St. Patrick's Park |date = 1988 |artist = Vivienne Roche |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = St Patricks Park, Dublin, Ireland - panoramio - georama (2).jpg |subject = The Literary Parade<br /> {{startplainlist}} * {{small|[[Samuel Beckett]]}} * {{small|[[Austin Clarke (poet)|Austin Clarke]]}} * {{small|[[Brendan Behan]]}} * {{small|[[James Joyce]]}} * {{small|[[Seán O'Casey]]}} * {{small|[[John Millington Synge]]}} * {{small|[[W. B. Yeats]]}} * {{small|[[George Bernard Shaw]]}} * {{small|[[Oscar Wilde]]}} * {{small|[[James Clarence Mangan]]}} * {{small|[[Eilís Dillon]]}} * {{small|[[Jonathan Swift]]}} {{endplainlist}} |location = St. Patrick's Park |date = 1988 |artist = Colm Brennan,<br />John Coll |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest church in Ireland. (3131017061).jpg |subject = Sentinel |location = Patrick Street |date = 1994 |artist = Vivienne Roche |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Restored Obelisk Fountain on James street in Dublin 1790.jpg |subject = The Obelisk Fountain |location = Thomas Street |date = 1790 |artist = Francis Sandys |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = |subject = Adult and Child Seat |location = St. Catherine's Park, Thomas Street |date = 1988 |artist = Jim Flavin<ref>{{cite web |title=Conserving Our Historic Graveyards {{!}} News |url=https://libertiesdublin.ie/conserving-our-historic-graveyards/ |website=The Liberties Dublin |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> |coordinates = |notes = Commissioned as part of the AIB sponsored Dublin Millennium Sculpture Symposium 1988 }} {{Public art row |image = IMAGES OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (ON A VERY COLD FOGGY DAY)-168483.jpg |subject = [[Homeless Jesus]] |location = [[Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin|Christ Church Cathedral]] |date = |artist = [[Timothy Schmalz]] |coordinates = |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Rialto roundabout sculpture, Dublin.jpg |subject = Rialto |location = [[Rialto, Dublin|Rialto]] |date = 2000 |artist = Sandra Bell |coordinates = {{coord|53.336249|-6.298801}} |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = Mirror_Granite_by_Kevin_Buckley,_Dublin._1984_03.jpg |subject = Mirror Granite |location = In the small unnamed triangular park between Kevin Street Lower and Kevin Street Cross |date = 1984 |artist = Kevin Buckley |coordinates = {{coord|53.337747|-6.268897}} |notes = }} {{Public art row |image = The Palace Bar, Dublin. Flann O'Brien aka Brian O'Nolan bronze plaque 01.jpg |subject = Irish writers |location = The pavement in front of The Palace Bar on [[Fleet Street, Dublin|Fleet Street]] |date = 2011 |artist = Jarlath Daly |coordinates = {{coord|53.34584|-6.25960}} |notes = 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 }} {{Public art row |image = Gulliver and the Lilliputians-Relief-Bride Street 82-91 - Golden Lane 53-58.jpg |subject = ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' |location = 53-58 [[Golden Lane, Dublin|Golden Lane]] |date = 1996 |artist = Michael C Keane |coordinates = {{coord|53.34071|-6.26954}} |notes = Eight [[terracotta]] plaques, or [[Roundel|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'.<ref name=AM>{{cite news|last= Mulvaney| first=Amy| url=https://www.thejournal.ie/gullivers-travels-artwork-golden-lane-4446816-Jan2019/ |work=[[TheJournal.ie]] |title=Double Take: The easy-to-miss plaques that tell a famous Irish tale |date=2019-01-23| accessdate = 2025-03-17}}</ref> Swift was Dean of nearby [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin|St Patrick's Cathedral]]. The works were commissioned by [[Dublin Corporation|Dublin City Corporation]], and awarded to Terry Cartin of Cartin Ceramics, whom Michael C Keane and Mo Maloney worked with "on many projects".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mckeanesculptor.ie/project/gullivers-travels/ |date= 2021-07-07| title=Gulliver’s Travels |work=mckeanesculptor.ie |access-date=2025-03-17 }}</ref> }} {{Public art row |image = Rory Gallagher Corner, Temple Bar, Dublin.jpg |subject = [[Rory Gallagher]] |location = Rory Gallagher Corner, [[Temple Bar, Dublin|Temple Bar]] |date = |artist = |coordinates = {{coord|53.34531|-6.26543}} |notes = A life-size bronze statue in the shape of Gallagher's [[Fender Stratocaster]] guitar }} {{End|Public art table}}
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