{"id":499434,"date":"2026-06-28T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/499434\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:34:39","slug":"sculpture-of-grainne-mhaol-officially-unveiled-in-carrick-on-suir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/499434\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture of Gr\u00e1inne Mhaol officially unveiled in Carrick-on-Suir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new addition has been added to Ormond Castle Park in Carrick-on-Suir.<\/p>\n<p>A sculpture of Gr\u00e1inne Mhaol has been officially unveiled next to the figure of Black Tom Butler.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s Pirate Queen travelled to Ormond Castle in Carrick-on-Suir to seek the support of the 10th Earl of Ormond in 1593.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Quinn of Killenaule is the artist behind the Grainne Mhaol and the Black Tom Butler statues.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the Carrick-on-Suir regeneration plan to upgrade Ormond Castle Park to a biodiversity reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new addition has been added to Ormond Castle Park in Carrick-on-Suir. A sculpture of Gr\u00e1inne Mhaol has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,249658,501,156,249659,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-499434","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-carrick-on-suir-municipal-district","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-grainne-mhaol","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499434","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=499434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}