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Lusitania Peace Memorial - Cuimhneachán síochána an Lusitania |
Jerome Connor
1952-1970 |
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Under the Angel of Peace:
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to the memory of all who perished by |
Under the fishermen:
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laborare est orare |
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S.S. 'LUSITANIA' jerome connors peace memorial honours the memory of those who helped in the rescue, gave aid & hope to the survivors and buried the dead |
While working on the Hubbard statue, Connor received a commission to create a memorial for all the Lusitania victims. It was to be erected in Cobh, County Cork where many of the victims were buried. The project was initiated by the New York Memorial Committee, headed by William H. Vanderbilt whose father Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, like Elbert and Alice Hubbard, perished on the Lusitania. Connor died before the Lusitania memorial was completed and based on Connor's design its installation fell to another Irish artist.The pedestal and the two fishermen were placed in 1952 and the memorial stood many years unfinished. On the initiative of sculptor Domhnall O'Murchada (Donal Murphy), who had salvaged the wax model of the Angel of Peace from Connor's studio, the Angel was finally cast and placed on the monument in 1970.
