Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, 1916 MEMORIAL
Name: | BYRNE, THOMAS JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, 1916 MEMORIAL |
Date: | 1927 |
Nature: | TJB designs Celtic-inspired canopy over statue by Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918) showing figure of Ireland supporting wounded soldier in volunteer uniform. (Artist bequeathed £1000 for her model to be carved in Carrara marble in Italy and to be erected in Dublin with limestone canopy to protect it.) |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 19 Mar 1927. |