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Statues in St. Patrick's Cathedral

"More than any other building in Ireland, Dublin's St. Patrick's Cathedral embodies the history and heritage of a nation and its people, from earliest times to the present day."
There are about 200 monuments in St Patrick's Cathedral, comprising everything from the big architectural monuments through brasses, marble statues, marble on the walls, and stained glass. On this website, we include the statues, busts and relief portraits.

Statues:

1. Henry Richard Dawson (1792-1840), dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
2. Gerald Fitzgibbon (1837-1909), dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
3. The Marquess of Buckingham (1804-1876), grand master of the Knights of St. Patrick.
4. James Whiteside (1804-1876), lawyer.
5. John McNeill Boyd (1812-1861), sea captain.
6. George Ogle (1742 - 1814), politician.

1. Edward Marks (1782-1869), minor canon.
2. William Lecky (1838-1903), historian.
3. Erskine Childers (1905-1974), president.
4. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), satirist.

Relief portraits

1. Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738), harper, composer and singer.
2. Conolly Norman (1853 - 1908), physician.
3. James Cooksey Culwick (1845 - 1907), musician.
4. Douglas Hyde (1860 - 1949), scholar of the Irish language.
5. Caesar Litton Falkiner (1863 - 1908), lawyer.

Sculptor

• Albert Bruce-Joy (Dublin 1842 - Shottermill 1924), Irish sculptor, specialized in portrait statues, busts and medallions (Wikipedia)
  Kineton Parkes, Sculpture of To-day (New York 1922 ), pp. 151-153.

Sources & Information

• Victor Jackson, The Monuments in St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin (Dublin, 1987).

Tags

• Town: Dublin - Baile Átha Cliath
• County: Co. Dublin - Contae Átha Cliath
• Country: Ireland
• Bruce-Joy, Albert
• Lawyer
• Man (sitting)
• Politician/Statesman
• Statue (man sitting)
• Whiteside, James

Locatie (N 53°20'22" - W 6°16'18") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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