Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.