We’ve had a long running series on the site looking at the statues in Dublin city centre, but it got me thinking what Dubliners are remembered with statues abroad? I came up with a few, asked jaycarax who could think of one or two others, and this is the list to start:
Arthur Wellesley,The Duke of Wellington.
A two-time Tory Prime Minister, and the man who oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829, Wellesley was born in Dublin on 1 May 1769. Wellington is perhaps best remembered for his decisive victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.He is remembered by the Wellington testimonial in Dublin’s Phoenix Park today, and the Ha’penny Bridge was originally christened the Wellington Bridge in his honour. Wellington is remembered with numerous statues across the UK, for example in Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and London. The Glasgow statue is rarely found without a traffic cone on its head.
Duke of Wellington, Glasgow. Image via http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2456051
Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet, born at St. Stephen’s Green in March 1778, led the uprising of 1803 against British rule and was executed as a result. Remembered primarily for his excellent speech from the dock, Emmet has become one of the more romantic figures of Irish nationalism. There are four identical examples of Jerome Connor’s monument to Emmet to be found, located in Washington (on ‘Embassy Row’), San Francisco, Iowa and here in Dublin at Stephen’s Green.
Robert Emmet, San Francisco. Taken by Flickr user monikalel4
Bram Stoker
Born in Clontarf in November 1847, Stoker is of course best remembered for his work Dracula. Today, he is remembered with a statue in Bistrita-Nasaud county in northern Romania, a region closely associated with Stoker’s masterpiece. Recently, the Stoker family have come forward as saying they are willing to finance the costs which would need to be met to place a statue to Bram Stoker here in Dublin.
James Joyce
Joyce is remembered in Dublin with a fantastic statue on North Earl Street, but the Dubliner also stands in Trieste, sits in Pula (Croatia) and reflects by his grave in Zurich.
James Joyce in Trieste. Image via http://www.open.edu/
George Bernard Shaw
The great George Bernard Shaw, born in Portobello, is remembered with a fine statue in Ontario, Canada. This is where the annual Shaw Festival occurs, a festival dedicated to producing plays written during the lifetime of Shaw.
George Bernard Shaw monument in Ontario (wikipedia)
John William Mackay
Born in Dublin in 1831, Mackay would die one of the worlds richest men having having made his fortune in mining in the United States. His monument stands today outside the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, formerly Mackay School of Mines, at the University of Nevada, Reno.
In 1866, Mackay and a partner obtained the undervalued Kentuck, a Gold Hill mine. Without offering stocks, they developed the property through crude, inexpensive means. Such limited freelance projects known as rathole mines rarely produced profit, but the Kentuck proved the exception, yielding $3,641,062 in three years.
John William Mackay Statue in Reno (wikipedia)
Edmund Burke
Burke, who gazes over College Green from the front of Trinity College Dublin, is also found in Washington D.C and Bristol, England. The sculpture in the United States is a cast of the original which is on display in Bristol.
Edmund Burke in Washington (Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde
While Oscar sits proudly in Merrion Square, he is also found relaxing in Tartu, Estonia!
The sculpture in front of Café Wilde (sculptor T Kirsipuu, 1999) is a fun speculation about literary history. English writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), who was born in Ireland, and Estonian writer Eduard Vilde (1856-1933), both of the same generation, sit on a bench together.
Any more come to mind? There must be at least a few more, we’d welcome contributions. Any Dublin women abroad?
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Was going to mention the Famine Memorial in Boston, not particularly a notable person but a notable memorial, and found this http://www.irishheritagetrail.com/boston/ unsurprisingly there’s quite a few there
There’s a few statues of famous Irish around South America but I don’t think any of them are Dubs. I suppose you can’t have everything.
I happened across a statue of Wilde in Tartu, Estonia:
http://www.visitestonia.com/en/sculpture-oscar-wilde-and-eduard-vilde
There’s a statue of Edmund Burke in Washington DC.
Thanks folks! This continues to grow. Keep ’em coming.
Don Patricio O Connel – the Dubliner who saved Barcelona FC (http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/a-barry-lyndon-of-the-world-of-football-155896.html) researching it here at Storymap at the moment, has a bust in Nou Camp. And remember seeing the Tartu Wilde, is an exact replica of the one in Galway on the main st.
Although not a statue, there is a memorial to Dubliner Stephen Clegg Rowan in Piqua, Ohio. One of the forgotten Irish of the American Civil War, he commanded one of the vessels that attempted to relieve Fort Sumter and rose to the rank of Vice-Admiral after the conflict. For a bit more on his service see here http://irishamericancivilwar.com/2010/12/16/first-shots-stephen-rowan-and-the-fall-of-fort-sumter/
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More out of irony than awe, one suspects, the Dutch sculptor Frans Smeets made a messianic statue of Bono (who was born Paul David Hewson in the Rotunda in 1960): http://rebelart.net/frans-smeets-bono-blut-und-boden/00306/ http://bit.ly/U3IdTQ
And a mere bust mightn’t count, but there is a bronze one of Victor Herbert (born in Dublin in 1859) which is prominently displayed in Central Park, Manhattan. Herbert composed the operettas Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta and Little Nemo. Educated in Germany, he became during his American years a noted ‘cellist, composer and conductor. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx; but do have a look at his impressive monument in Central Park: http://bit.ly/UAcqdK