Irish Statues

Some Of Most Famous Statues

Meet the famous Irish Statues figures

James Larkin

Born in the slums of a great English city in.1876, like so many Irishmen of his generation, Larkin saw and suffered all that was the lot of his ghettoed class. He received hardly any education, watched his father die of tuberculosis, began to earn his living at the age of eleven, was duly exploited in a precarious labour market, struggled to keep his family from sinking into abject poverty, stowed away to escape unemployment and find adventure.

Constance Markievicz

Constance Markievicz was a woman who entered the male dominated world of conspiracy and revolution; an aristocrat who became a committed socialist, a member of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy whence a fervent Irish nationalist

The Irish Famine

The Irish Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Irish between 1845 and 1850

William Smith

politician, was born on October 3, 1803 in Dromoland, Co. Clare, the second son of Sir Edward O'Brien (1773-1837), baronet, and Charlotte (1781-1856), the elder daughter of William Smith of Cahirmoyle (or Cahermoyle). William was descended from the high-king of the eleventh century, Brian Bórama.

Molly Malone

Molly Malone is the enigmatic heroine of the famous song of the same name, widely recognised as Dublin’s unofficial anthem. Immortalised in bronze during the 1988 Dublin Millennium celebrations, the Molly Malone statue stands in the heart of the city’s historic Georgian Quarter. Though regularly upheld as a traditional Irish ballad, it’s not known where the song originated or if Molly Malone ever existed.