{"id":268869,"date":"2026-01-28T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:38:09","slug":"sculpture-of-daniel-oconnell-unveiled-at-leinster-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268869\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture of Daniel O&#8217;Connell unveiled at Leinster House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sculpture of Daniel O&#8217;Connell has been unveiled at Leinster House to commemorate 250 years since his birth.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O&#8217;Connell, known as the liberator, was born in August 1775.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first Irish Catholic to speak in the British parliament and worked towards the abolition of slavery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Daniel OConnell statue - pic - Juliette Gash - RTE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0023cfd4-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe statue was donated to the Houses of the Oireachtas by Bank of Ireland<\/p>\n<p>The statue, completed in 1932, was donated to the Houses of the Oireachtas by Bank of Ireland. The sculptor, Andrew O&#8217;Connor, has several statues across the capital, in Merrion Square and in D\u00fan Laoghaire.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture sits on the Kildare Street side of Leinster House, outside the entrance to the extension to the main building, known as LH2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sculpture of Daniel O&#8217;Connell has been unveiled at Leinster House to commemorate 250 years since his birth.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-268869","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268869","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=268869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}