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In 1965, the square was officially renamed "John F. Kennedy Memorial Park" in honour of U.S. President John F. Kennedy; despite the renaming, the square is still widely known as Eyre Square. Kennedy had visited Galway City and made a speech in the square on 29 June 1963, [1] the first U.S. president to do so during his term of office. [citation ...
Eyre Square: 1984: Éamonn O'Doherty [1] Browne Doorway Eyre Square: 1627 [2] Pádraic Ó Conaire (Bronze replica) Eyre Square: 2017: Maurice Quillinan, based on 1935 original by Albert Power [3] Limestone original now in Galway City Museum (see below) Liam Mellows Monument Eyre Square: 1957: Domhnall Ó Murchadha [4] Kennedy Memorial Eyre ...
A statue of Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882–1928), carved by Albert Power. The statue was relocated to the museum from its previous location of Eyre Square, Galway. Royal Arms of George III, dated to the early 19th century, it was formerly in the Town Court House, now the Town Hall Theatre, Galway. National Museum of Ireland:
In December 2007, the sale of the Guennol Lioness, a statue from around 3000 BC, nearly doubled the previous record price when it sold for $57.2 million. It is the fifth-most valuable sculpture to date (2018) and the most valuable piece from antiquity.
English: Marble statue of George Washington by Fratelli Gianfranchi, once owned by Mahlon Dickerson Eyre. Located on South Montgomery Street near the Douglass House in the Mill Hill Historic District in Trenton, New Jersey .
The Eyres after whom the village is named, as well as other places such as Eyre Square in Galway City, were an English family who came over with Cromwell. [3] Their former residence, Eyrecourt Castle (now a ruin), [4] provides the large metal gateway at the eastern end of main street and the 100-acre (0.40 km 2) castle lawn beyond.
Among his monumental works were sculptures of Tom Kettle (1919) at St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Christ the King in Gort, Co. Galway, (1933), Pádraic Ó Conaire (1935) at Eyre Square, Galway, and W. B. Yeats (1939) at Sandymount Green, Dublin. He was one of the artists invited to submit designs for the new coinage of the Irish Free State in 1928.
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