no topo e centro da fachada do General Post Office encontramos esta
belíssima Hibernia, apoiada na lança e na harpa.
Tirei tantas fotos, mas decidi-me por estas três ...
James Larkin
a atravessar para o O'Connell Monument (1882)
No dia em que chegamos chovia e estas estátuas estavam belíssimas cobertas com água e com a pouca luz do tempo cinzentão que estava na altura. O monumento é todo ele muito interessante.
Uma das explicações que se encontram online refere,
The sculptural composition formed three sections, a statue of O’Connell at the
top,
a frieze in the middle – at the centre of which was represented the
Archive Consultants
O’Connell Street Monument Report – Nov 2003 7
‘Maid of Erin’, her right hand raised
pointing to O’Connell, her liberator, and in
her left hand the 1829 Act of Catholic
Emancipation.
Nearly thirty more figures symbolise the Church, the
professions, the arts,
the trades and the peasantry.
At the base are four winged victories, each of which
represented the virtues attributed to O’Connell –
patriotism, courage, eloquence and fidelity. There is
evidence of bullet holes in two of the victories, a legacy of 1916-1922. The
overall height of the monument is 40 feet, the bronze statue of O’Connell
wrapped in his cloak is 12 feet high.
Fidelidade
Patriotismo
(a espada está quebrada)
Coragem
