Daniel O'Connell Statue - O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland
N 53° 20.862 W 006° 15.560
29U E 682426 N 5914451
This magnificent statue stands at the southern end of O'Connell Street and cannot be missed by anyone in the area.
Waymark Code: WMFVE5
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Date Posted: 12/03/2012
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The Visit Dublin website [visit
link] tells us:
"One of Dublin’s finest sculptors,
John Henry Foley designed this memorial to Daniel O’Connell which was unveiled
to admiring crowds gathered in the pouring rain on 15 August 1882. Foley later
went on to design the figure of Albert and to carve the group called Asia on the
spectacular Albert Memorial in London.
In 1829, Daniel O’Connell, known as
the ‘Liberator’, had achieved through political means religious freedom in
Ireland after centuries of repression on Roman Catholics, the religion of the
majority, and on other minority beliefs. His continuing efforts to have the
hated Act of Union with Great Britain, dating from 1800, rescinded met with no
success before he died on his way to Rome in 1847."
The In Your Pocket website [visit
link] also tells us:
"A large crowd assembled at the
south end of this eponymous boulevard to watch the 1882 unveiling of O'Connell's
imposing and remarkably beautiful statue. Irish sculptor John Henry Foley also
designed the Prince Albert Memorial statue, and brings an equally statesmanlike
aura to his Dublin opus. Lawyer O'Connell (1775-1847), peacefully campaigned for
Catholic Emancipation (equal rights). His success saw him proclaimed The
Liberator or The Great Emancipator, and his place was written into Irish
history. According to his wishes, his heart is buried in Rome and his body
beneath a Round Tower at Dublin's Glasnevin
Cemetery."
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