Dublin City Council has approved a monument to be placed on O’Connell Street to honour Irish women of the revolutionary period.<\/p>\n
The monument will be erected between the Spire and the James Larkin statue, in front of the GPO.<\/p>\n
The revolutionary period spans the right to vote campaign of the early 1900s, the 1913 Dublin Lockout, the 1916 Easter Rising, the War or Independence and the Civil War.<\/p>\n
Donna Cooney, chair of the Commemorations & Naming Committee of Dublin City Council described the news as “really exciting”.<\/p>\n
“There’s absolutely no statues to women whatsoever on O’Connell Street and very few in Dublin whatsoever except for fictional characters,” the Green Party councillor told This Week.<\/p>\n
The project has a \u20ac1m budget and Cllr Cooney expects there will be good competition from artists bidding for the project.<\/p>\n
“We’ve one more little, small hurdle in the sense that we’ve one of the stakeholders to discuss this with and get the go ahead outside Dublin City Council.”<\/p>\n
The committee needs to meet with the Luas operator to ensure the monument would not impact its services.<\/p>\n
Cllr Cooney said that she hopes the monument will be on O’Connell street within 18 months adding the project has the “support of the full council”.<\/p>\n
“We wanted a really prime location,” she said.<\/p>\n
Cllr Cooney said that just 20% of plaques in Dublin City commemorate women.<\/p>\n
“They’re not in the history books and they’re not well known,” Cllr Cooney said adding that women also don’t get recognised in the naming of other public areas such as parks.<\/p>\n
The committee is not putting forward any particular woman’s name.<\/p>\n
Cllr Cooney hopes that when the project goes out for commission the artists will propose something that commemorates women.<\/p>\n
“It may be the artist might put a lot of names around it; they may not,” she explained.<\/p>\n
“So, it’s open really for the commission and then for the selection panel, which will involve experts in public arts.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want to influence too much exactly what the artists will come up with.<\/p>\n
“It may very well have their names. It may have lots of names.”<\/p>\n
Cllr Cooney’s great grand aunt was Elizabeth O’Farrell who carried the flag of surrender in the 1916 Easter Rising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin City Council has approved a monument to be placed on O’Connell Street to honour Irish women of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-383328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383328","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=383328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}