{"id":256557,"date":"2026-01-21T18:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256557\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:28:07","slug":"sculptor-launched-campaign-for-statue-of-luke-skywalker-in-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256557\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptor launched campaign for statue of Luke Skywalker in Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sculptor has launched a fundraising campaign to get a statue of Luke Skywalker installed in Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Artist David O&#8217;Brien has set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/u\/david-obrien\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> page to raise 150-thousand euro to cast and erect the statue of Mark Hamill&#8217;s character in the Star Wars sequel films, in Portmagee.<\/p>\n<p>The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi were shot around Ireland, including on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/skellig-michael\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skellig<\/a> Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O&#8217;Brien runs the Bronze Art\u00a0 &#8211; Fine Art Foundry, which was behind the statue of Rory Gallagher in Ulster Hall, and a bust of former president Michael D Higgins which was presented to him on his last day in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sculptor has launched a fundraising campaign to get a statue of Luke Skywalker installed in Kerry. Artist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,127737],"class_list":["post-256557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sculptor-launched-fundraising-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}