{"id":244630,"date":"2026-01-21T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244630\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:45:08","slug":"sculptor-launched-campaign-for-statue-of-luke-skywalker-in-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244630\/","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":244631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69,143188],"class_list":{"0":"post-244630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-sculptor-launched-fundraising-campaign"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}