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Eyre Square (/ ɛər / AIR; Irish: An Fhaiche Mhór) ... There is a portrait bust of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in the park, [7] and a statue of Liam Mellows ...
Statue of Pádraic Ó Conaire that stood in Eyre Square, Galway. Now in Galway City Museum. Ó Conaire's short story M'asal Beag Dubh was the inspiration for an Internet-based satire on the football transfer market. The fictitious character Masal Bugduv was created. The name sounds similar to the Gaelic pronunciation of M'asal Beag Dubh ...
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 ...
This museum also houses the statue of the poet, Pádraic Ó Conaire which was originally located in the Kennedy Park section of Eyre Square, prior to the Square's renovation. A replica of the statue was erected in Eyre Square in 2017. [24] The museum is near the Spanish Arch, the historical remnants of the 16th century wall. [25]
A statue was erected to him in Eyre Square, Galway in 1873 in honour of his military career, and political career as MP for Galway Borough and County Galway. However, the statue was torn down after Irish independence in 1922, partly on account of his brother Hubert de Burgh-Canning who was a notoriously unpopular landlord in County Galway. [1]
William Joseph Mellows [1] (Irish: Liam Ó Maoilíosa, [2] [3] 25 May 1892 – 8 December 1922) was an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician. [4] Born in England to an English father and Irish mother, he grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne before moving to Ireland, being raised in Cork, Dublin and his mother's native Wexford.
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.
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.