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My restored and colourised 1967 photo featuring the unveiling ceremony of the W.B.Yeats Memorial by An Taoiseach Jack Lynch in Stephen’s Green in Dublin City. The bronze sculpture is by artist Henry Moore. #Dublin #Ireland #DeOldify pic.twitter.com/Qw0vFbyAfd— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) July 8, 2020
Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
The unveiling in 1967 of The WB Yeats Memorial featuring abstract artist Henry Moore‘s Standing Figure: Knife Edge‘ sculpture.
Meanwhile…
Via RTÉ News:
Conservation works to a long-overlooked part of St Stephen’s Green in Dublin are nearing completion.
The €300,000 project on the WB Yeats Memorial began last November.
Commissioned and managed by the Office of Public Works, the project has taken in the conservation of Henry Moore’s iconic ‘Knife Edge’ sculpture, as well as the restoration of surrounding paths, steps and terraces.
“The whole plaza was overgrown and the sculpture was very much hidden. So you couldn’t really see that there was even a Henry Moore in this part of the park. A lot of people never knew it was here,” said conservator Jason Ellis (top).
‘Hidden gem’ restored in Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green (RTÉ)
Would it not have been a golden colour when it was made if it was made from bronze? I understand that it turns green as it oxidizes, at the unveiling I would have though it would have been golden…
…can’t believe I didn’t know it was there until yesterday…
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Known to me as the “Rockery” back in the 80s, location for all sorts of shenanigans.
€300,000 to clear some overgrowth and polish a turd???????
Sounds like a bargain……
300 grand for this work
I wonder who sanctioned it
You could build two homes for that
I used to eat luch beside this all the time – its not improved. A power washer would have done as good a job.
300k…. love to know how the contract was awarded and to who.
Some well connected piece of scum who seems to emerge from under a rock when these contracts are thought up
Many times man lives and dies
Between his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul ,
And ancient Ireland knew it all .
Whether man dies in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead ,
A brief parting from those dear
Is the worst a man has to fear .
Though grave-diggers’ toil is long ,
Sharp their spades , their muscles strong,
They but thrust their buried men
Back in the human mind again .
from ‘Under Ben Bulben’ W B Yeats
I knew there was something weirdly familiar about this statue the first time I saw it, a while later I realised while watching “The Breakfast Club” there is an almost identical Henry Moore sculpture in the background of the library where the Saturday detention is being held. Fun fact