Yesterday.
Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
Hundreds bid farewell to The Haunting Soldier, the First World War sculpture on loan to Dublin City from its British owner to mark the 100th anniversary of the armistice agreement that ended the war. The sculpture, which was was vandalised with red paint last week, will be dismantled today.
Previously: The Haunting Soldier on Broadsheet
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As a petty small man with no life who has to believe in something bigger than myself and found acceptance in a small group of unemployable hardcore nationalist that drink with me , this deeply upsets me. Traitors!! Traitors!!
…Slán Tin Tan…
Nil aon Tin Tan mar do Tin Tan fein.
Surely, “Blackandtánasite”?
A statue of an Irish volunteer would be appropriate.
Vandalism. The last gasp of a bankrupt ideology.
That’s deep.
Art criticism is a minefield.
Maudlin.
There, I said it.
What about bringing back all the remains of the Irish who were
interred and hidden away by the Empire on the the foreign fields
of war, this would remind everyone how the youth and young
men were used as expedient cannon fodder and were really conned
by the ruling class of the British in pursuit of their dream of Empire:
Next time round will we have a tin replica of the Black & Tans…?