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BY JEROME CONNOR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used an iPhone 12 Pro Max to photograph one of my favourite sculptures in Merrion Square Public Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c9ire Memorial (1974) By Jerome Connor (1874-1943) – Restored And Relocated Within Merrion Square Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1928 Jerome Connor became involved in a proposal to create a memorial to the Kerry poets, which was to commemorate four leading Gaelic poets of the 17th and 18th centuries at Killarney. He chose a figure of \u00c9ire holding a harp seated on a rock, possibly inspired by Walt Whitman\u2019s poem Old Ireland in Leaves of Grass (1861). The unstrung harp was based on the 1621 Cloyne harp in the National Museum. The work went as far as a full-scale replica in wax. However, due to the limited funds available, Connor agreed to forego his artist\u2019s fee and charge only the costs of production, indicative of a personal commitment to this project in his native country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite its allegorical subject, it is a highly realistic piece of modelling but opponents of the scheme blocked payments in 1932 on the grounds that it was \u201cpagan\u201d and lacked religious symbolism \u2013 an instance of the narrow religious prejudices of the time. Payments to the sculptor ceased which precipitated his bankruptcy and subsequent poverty. The sculpture was not completed in his lifetime but was cast in 1974, funded by Downes bakery, and placed in Merrion Square, but without the planned pedestal and inscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c9ire Memorial, Merrion Square, Public Park, Restored And Relocated, Jerome O’Connor,leading Gaelic poets of the 17th and 18th centuries at Killarney, harp,lacked religious symbolism, pagan, public art, sculpture, Ireland, William Murphy, Infomatique, Apple, iPhone, 12 Pro Max,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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