Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, PATRICK STREET, FATHER MATHEW STATUE

Name: FOLEY, JOHN HENRY *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PATRICK STREET, FATHER MATHEW STATUE
Date: 1863-64
Nature: Full length bronze statue of Mathew. Cast by Prince, Soutwark. Unveiled 10 Oct 1864.
Refs: DB 5, 15 Jan 1863, 10; 6, 1 Oct 1864, 201; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 363; John Turpin, 'Catalogue of the sculpture of J.H. Foley', Dublin Historical Record 32 (Jun 1979), 112; Holly Bough (1960), 38;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), Fig. 211.

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, PATRICK STREET, FATHER MATHEW STATUE
Date: 1864
Nature: Base of statue designed by Atkins. Unveiled 10 Oct 1864. Stonework by Egan, Cork.
Refs: DB 6, 15 Oct 1864, 205-6; Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 249.