A great bit of controversial engagement with the city by Will St. Leger, placing a female torso on the plinth at City Hall to highlight the lack of monuments and memorials to women in the city. We’ve run a long-running series on the statues of Dublin here on Come Here To Me, and I’ve always wondered: “Where is the statue to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington?” “Where is the plaque on the old headquarters of the Irish Womens Workers Union?”.
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Lovely piece.
2 women sounds about right if you leave out Molly Malone (big boobs) and the BVM (no boobs at all).
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PS: the plinth is outside City Hall. So much the better.
I’d like to see one dedicated to our Liberties’ belle, Imelda May 🙂
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Right order.
Re the IWWU plaque, I think there used to be one on the door of the building on Fleet Street but the original door (along with the plaque) got lost during renovations which is absolutely tragic. There’s a campaign underway to commemorate the IWWU with a new plaque in 2013 (hopefully unveiling it on International Women’s Day), still early days but we should be setting up a website, Facebook page etc in the coming months.
[…] left at Molly Malone to his ‘Famine and Byrne’ print, his female torso on the plinth of City Hall to his current (and rather quality) ‘Collins Rising’ print. One of Will’s […]