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Proclamation

Sculpture honoring the leaders of the Easter Rising, and the authors of the Irish proclamation of Independence

Rowan Gillespie
2008

Dublin - Baile Átha Cliath / Proclamation

Description

"Fourteen figures stand in a megalithic circle, at the centre of which is a plaque containing a copy of the Proclamation of Independence, engraved in bronze. Each figure has at its base a small plaque, engraved with the British military tribunal's verdict and sentence of death (resp. VERDICT: | guilty | death; VERDICT: | guilty | death by being | shot; VERDICT: | 1st charge: | guilty, death 2nd: not guilty). The figures are perforated with bullet holes. … The figures are limbless, but far from lifeless. Fourteen martyrs stand united in a circle, blindfolded, as they would be for execution. The disturbing nature of these figures recalls the influence of Edvard Munch on the artist; and the desire to strip away the inessential differences of face and form and depict the essential nature of a raw emotion" (after Wikipedia).

Inscription(s)

"PROCLAMATION"
a sculpture by
Rowan Gillespie 2008

Annotation

The sculptute stands solemnly across the street from the notorious Kilmainham Gaol where the proclamation scribes were executed in 1916.

Sculptor

Rowan Gillespie (Dublin 1953), Irish sculptor (Website – Wikipedia).

Locatie (N 53°20'32" - W 6°18'34") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ie101; Photograph: 13 June 2014
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