Editing List of public art in Dublin (section)

==Past public art==
{| class="wikitable"
!Image
!Title / subject 
!Location
!Date
!Artist / designer
!Notes and references
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|[[File:George I Essex Bridge.jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|[[Equestrian Statue of George I]]
|Initially at Essex Bridge, later at the Mansion House
|{{nowrap|1722–1755,}}<br />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, Dublin|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vanderkrogt.net/statues/object.php?webpage=ST&record=gbwm068 |title=King George I |publisher=Statues Hither & Thither|access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref>
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|[[File:George II Statue, Dublin.jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|[[George II of Great Britain|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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiseek.com/2013/1758-statue-of-george-ii-st-stephens-green-dublin/ |title=1758 Statue of George II, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin |date=23 March 2013 |publisher= Buildings of Ireland, Archiseek |access-date=6 November 2018}}</ref>
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|[[File:Archibald Montgomerie statue, St Stephen's Green.png|100x100px]]
![[Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton|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.<ref>{{cite web |date=1866 |title=Statue of the Earl of Eglinton, Stephen's Green, Dublin. |url=http://sources.nli.ie/Record/PS_UR_034750 |access-date=21 January 2022 |website=sources.nli.ie |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=STATUE OF EARL OF EGLINTON |url=https://www.dia.ie/works/view/38631/building/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN%2C+ST+STEPHEN%27S+GREEN%2C+STATUE+OF+EARL+OF+EGLINTON |access-date=21 January 2022 |website=www.dia.ie}}</ref>
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|[[File:King William Statue 1.jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|[[William III of England|William of Orange]]
|[[College Green, Dublin|College Green]]
|1701–1929
|[[Grinling Gibbons]]
|Damaged after explosion on anniversary of [[Armistice Day]] in 1928, and subsequently removed in 1929.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/ms12a-william-orange |title=William of Orange |publisher=Dublin City Council Libraries |access-date=6 November 2018}}</ref>  Melted down in 1946. {{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
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|[[File:Sir Philip Crampton's memorial in Dublin Wellcome L0002903.jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|[[Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet|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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/ms15-crampton-memorial |title=Crampton Memorial 1959 |publisher=Dublin City Council Libraries |access-date=6 November 2018}}</ref> It was subsequently replaced by [[Cliodhna Cussen|Cliodhna Cussen's]] ''The Steine of Long Stone'' in 1986.
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|[[File:Griffith-Collins Cenotaph Leinster Lawn Dublin.jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|[[Arthur Griffith|Griffith]]-[[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Collins]] Cenotaph
|[[Leinster House]], Kildare Street
|1923–1939
|[[George Atkinson (artist)|George Atkinson]]
|Structure had become dilapidated and was removed in 1939. It was replaced in 1950 by current obelisk on Leinster Lawn (see above)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/yourview/story-of-most-elusive-memorial-revealed-66005.html |title=Story of most elusive memorial revealed |newspaper=[[Irish Examiner]] |access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref>
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|
![[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.
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| [[File:The Market Cross, Dublin.jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dublin city's medieval High Cross {{!}} Irish Archaeology|url=http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/03/dublin-citys-medieval-high-cross/|website=irisharchaeology.ie|access-date=2020-05-02}}</ref>
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|[[File:Queen Victoria "visits" Library Towers (8409924813).jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|[[Statue of Queen Victoria, Sydney|Queen Victoria]]
|Leinster House, Kildare Street
|1904–1948
|[[John Hughes (sculptor)|John Hughes]]
|Removed in 1948 as part of moves by the Irish State towards [[Republic of Ireland Act 1948|declaring a Republic]], put on display in Sydney, Australia in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/statue_of_queen_victoria_druitt_street |title=Statue of Queen Victoria, Druitt Street |publisher=The Directory of Sydney |access-date=6 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publicartaroundtheworld.com/Queen_Victoria_Statue.html |title=Queen Victoria Statue |publisher=Public Art Around the World |access-date=6 November 2018}}</ref> The smaller bronze statues are held in storage within the grounds of the National museum overflow facility at [[St Conleth's Reformatory School]].
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|[[File:XXI OCTOBER MDCCCV (8636135413).jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|[[Nelson's Pillar]]
|[[O'Connell Street]]
|1809–1966
|[[Francis Johnston (architect)|Francis Johnston]],<br />[[William Wilkins (architect)|William Wilkins]],<br />[[Thomas Kirk (sculptor)|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]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/ms41-nelsons-head |title=Nelson's Head |publisher=Dublin City Council |access-date=2 November 2018}}</ref>
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|
! class="fn org"|[[William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney|William Blakeney]]
|O'Connell Street
|1759–1782
|John van Nost the younger
|Removed sometime before 1782<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/irishartists/john-van-nost.php |title=John Van Nost |publisher=Library Ireland |access-date=5 November 2018 }}</ref>
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|[[File:Bowloflight.jpg|120x120px]]
! class="fn org"|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://comeheretome.com/2012/03/19/oconnell-bridge-and-the-the-bowl-of-light/|title=O'Connell Bridge and the 'The Bowl Of Light'|date=19 March 2012|access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1982">O'Dwyer, Frederick. ''Lost Dublin''. (HarperCollins 1982).</ref><ref name="photobucket">{{cite web|url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/testguy/bowl2.jpg |title= Photo: Flowerbed |publisher=img.photobucket.com|access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref>
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![[Sir Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet|Sir Alexander Macdonnell]]
|[[Marlborough Street, Dublin|Marlborough Street]]
|1878–1958
|[[Thomas Farrell (sculptor)|Thomas Farrell]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Paula |title=Is it time for Sir Alexander MacDonnell to be restored to his perch in Dublin? |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/is-it-time-for-sir-alexander-macdonnell-to-be-restored-to-his-perch-in-dublin-1.4319978?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fis-it-time-for-sir-alexander-macdonnell-to-be-restored-to-his-perch-in-dublin-1.4319978 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=20 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
|Originally located in front of [[Tyrone House, Dublin|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sketch Model Design of the Statue of the late Sir Alexander MacDonnell by Thomas Farrell - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 |url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1203935070 |website=sculpture.gla.ac.uk |access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref>
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|[[File:Gough Monument, Phoenix Park.jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|[[Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough|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.<ref name=Ballymun/>{{efn|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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|
![[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.<ref>{{cite web |title=1725 – Riversdale House, Kilmainham, Dublin {{!}} Archiseek - Irish Architecture |url=https://www.archiseek.com/2014/1725-riversdale-house-kilmainham-dublin/#google_vignette |access-date=8 December 2023 |date=21 November 2014}}</ref> In the manner of a similar statue by [[Peter Scheemakers]].
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|[[File:Weavers Hall (4769200816).jpg|120x120px]]
![[George II of Great Britain|George II]]
|[[Weavers' Hall, Dublin|Weavers' Hall]], [[The Coombe, Dublin|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.
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|
![[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]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Carroll |first=Anthony R. |date=1897 |title=Prussia-Street, Dublin |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25508392 |journal=The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=181–181 |issn=0035-9106}}</ref>
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|[[File:Carlisle Statue, Phoenix Park.jpg|120x120px]] 
! class="fn org"|[[George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DU&regno=50060077 |title=Carlisle Monument, Peoples' Garden, Phoenix Park |publisher=Buildings of Ireland |access-date=6 November 2018}}</ref>
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! class="fn org"|[[Millennium Clock, Dublin|Millennium Clock]]
|[[River Liffey]]
|March to August 1996
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|[[File:The Point Rocket.JPG|100px]]
! class="fn org"|The Point Rocket
|[[Point Theatre]] 
|2006–?
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|[[File:Marschierende Mäuse - panoramio.jpg|100px]]
! class="fn org"|Three Bears with Attitude
|North Wall Quay ([[3Arena (Dublin)|3Arena]])
|2009–2017
|Patrick O'Reilly
|Removed in 2017, current whereabouts unknown. One of them is in the Vicar Street bar.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/receivers-remove-three-bears-from-point-depot-site-1.3005893|title=Receivers remove three bears from Point Depot site|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=10 March 2017}}</ref>
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|[[File:Climbing (6725355761).jpg|100px]]
! class="fn org"|Aspiration – Liberty Scaling the Heights
|Grand Canal Street
|1995–2020
|Rowan Gillespie
|Removed in 2020<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/naked-woman-removed-from-treasury-building-in-dublin-1.4427963|title=Naked woman removed from Treasury Building in Dublin|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=4 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/nude-male-sculpture-drove-developer-up-the-wall-1.557174|title=Nude male sculpture drove developer up the wall|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=27 November 2012}}</ref>
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! class="fn org"|Gateway
|Marine Road, [[Dún Laoghaire]]
|2002-2009
|[[Michael Warren (sculptor)|Michael Warren]]
|Removed in 2009. Returned to the artist in 2015 in exchange for an alternative work entitled 'Angel Negro'.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gartland|first=Fiona|date=2015-08-22|title=Controversial Dún Laoghaire sculpture returned to artist|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/controversial-d%C3%BAn-laoghaire-sculpture-returned-to-artist-1.2324755|access-date=2023-04-23|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|language=en}}</ref>
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