{"id":296089,"date":"2026-02-13T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:56:11","slug":"kerry-sculpture-for-revolutionary-women-faces-tree-cutting-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296089\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry sculpture for revolutionary women faces tree-cutting backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Site prepared at Tralee Town Park for sculpture honouring Kerry's revolutionary women.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3aa7e0b1-ad6c-4687-87a0-08f3201bb76f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Site prepared at Tralee Town Park for sculpture honouring Kerry&#8217;s revolutionary women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Plans to erect a sculpture in Tralee Town Park honouring Kerry women from Ireland\u2019s revolutionary period have sparked controversy after 50-year-old trees were cut down to make way for the artwork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The art commission was originally initiated by five female county councillors in 2023 via a notice of motion aiming to commemorate the vital role of women in the struggle for Irish freedom between 1912 and 1923 and their contribution to shaping a new Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Site prepared at Tralee Town Park for sculpture honouring Kerry&#8217;s revolutionary women. Plans to erect a sculpture in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,16585],"class_list":["post-296089","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-stephen-fernane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296089","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=296089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}