Feb 262014
Saint Stephen’s Green is a small park in the city center. The park has a very rich history in itself, but it is also the home to many a great statue.
The entry to the park is graced with this statue of Wolfe Tone by Edward Delaney. Wolfe Tone is the father of Irish Republicanism. He slit his throat with a penknife rather than face the hangman for treason after the 1798 rebellion.
Behind the granite wall is this stunning piece titled Famine, also by Edward Delaney.
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Strolling through the park you will run across one of Dublin’s more famous inhabitants, James Joyce by Marjorie Fitzgibbon. The inscription on the bottom is a Joyce quote from A Portrait of an Artist “Crossing Stephen’s, that it, my green”.
The park is filled with considerably more bronzes, but these were the most noteworthy.