BY BRIAN KING
Discover the story behind 'Galway Yellow', the iconic Brian King sculpture at the University of Galway. Often nicknamed "The Big Yellow Thing," this protected structure is a defiant departure from Ireland's "red metal yokes" and a vital artefact of 1970s Irish modernism.
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