Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, PARNELL MONUMENT
Name: | BACON, HENRY # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, PARNELL MONUMENT |
Date: | 1899-1911 |
Nature: | Obelisk probably designed by HB, and erected under supervision of G.P. Sheridan. For Parnell Monument Committee of Dublin. Sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. FS laid 8 Oct 1899. Contractor: W. Connolly. Stone from quarried by Galway Marble Works from Shantilla quarry. Unveiled 2 Jul 1911. |
Refs: | IB 41. 15 Oct 1899, 161; 43, 12 Sep 1901; 51, 16 Oct 1909, 645; 53, 19 Aug,23 Dec 1911, 546,837(illus.); Freeman's Journal, 30 Apr 1908,10 Apr 1911; A &B 1, 30 Sep,7 Oct 1911, 495,510; Sean Rothery, 'Parnell Monument: Ireland & American Beaux Arts', Irish Arts Review 4, no. 1 (Spring 1987), 55-57; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 220, names Bacon as the architect. |
Name: | SAINT-GAUDENS, AUGUSTUS *# |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, PARNELL MONUMENT |
Date: | 1899-1911 |
Nature: | Sculpture by AS-G (cost $25,000); obelisk probably designed by Henry Bacon, New York, and erected under supervision of G.P. Sheridan. For Parnell Monument Committee of Dublin. FS laid 8 Oct 1899. Statue placed in position Aug 1911. Contractor: W. Connolly. |
Refs: |
IB 41. 15 Oct 1899, 161; 43, 12 Sep 1901; 51, 16 Oct 1909, 645; 53, 19 Aug,23 Dec 1911, 546,837(illus.), 64, 29 Jul 1922, ?; Irish Times, 3 Oct 1906,25 Nov 1907; IA &B 1, 30 Sep,7 Oct 1911, 495,510; Sean Rothery, 'Parnell Monument: Ireland & American Beaux Arts', Irish Arts Review 4, no. 1 (Spring 1987), 55-57; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 220; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 207-212(illus.), 235. |
Name: | SHERIDAN, GEORGE PATRICK |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, PARNELL MONUMENT |
Date: | 1899-1911 |
Nature: | GPS supervised erection of same. Contractor: W. Connolly & Son, Dominck St.. Unveiled 1 Oct 1911 by John Redmond. |
Refs: |
IB 41. 15 Oct 1899, 161; 51, 16 Oct 1909, 645; 53, 10 Jun,19 Aug,14 Oct,23 Dec 1911, 397,546,676,837(illus.); Freeman's Journal, 22 Aug,10 Oct 1908,23 Jan 1909. |