Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Sculptor, of Dublin and Florence, for biography and works of whom see Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 415-417. Mary Redmond's output consisted largely of portrait busts and medallions; her one large piece of monumental sculpture is the statue of Father Mathew in O'Connell Street, Dublin, unveiled on 8 February 1893. Snoddy recounts how when the statue was nearing completion, Redmond was forced to dismiss her model for drunkenness. He came back to her studio after she had gone home and destroyed the statue, so that she was forced to begin all over again. She also carved the reredos of the high altar of St Joseph's church, Berkeley Street, Dublin.(1)

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(1) F.P. Carey, Catholic Dublin: an ecclesiastical guide (1932), ? (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).The reredos has now  been removed (Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 276).


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, FATHER MATHEW MEMORIAL
Date: 1893a
Nature: Statue unveiled 8 Feb 1893.
Refs: Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 416;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 152-3(illus.).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BERKELEY STREET, CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Reredos to high altar.
Refs: Catholic Dublin: a guide (1932)(B of I; but I cannot find this ref. in IAA copy of Gill's Guide to Catholic Dublin (1932))