List of public art in Cork city

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This is a list of public art on permanent public display in Cork city, Ireland. The list applies only to works of public art accessible in a public space; it does not include artwork on display inside museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals and mosaics.

Public art in city centre

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Fr Matthew.jpg Father Theobald Mathew St Patrick's Street 1864 John Henry Foley "The Statue"[1]
120x120px The Echo boy St Patrick's Street 1991 Barry Moloney [2]
120x120px Examiner Office St. Patrick's Street 2009 Eithne Ring & Liam Lavery
120x120px National Monument Grand Parade, Cork 1906 D. J. Coakley [3]
120x120px Berwick Fountain Grand Parade, Cork 1860 Sir John Benson [4]
120x120px 'Lest We Forget' War Memorial South Mall, Cork 1925 [5]
City South Mall, Cork 1985 Patrick O'Sullivan [6]
Cork City Battalion Irish Volunteers Memorial South Mall, Cork 2016 Mick Wilkins [7][8]
120x120px Denny Lane plaque South Mall, Cork Denny Lane (1818 - 1895) was the author of the poem "Carrigdhoun"
120x120px Fountain, English Market English Market 1800s W. R. Harris (firm) [9]
120x120px The Onion Seller Bishop Lucey Park 1985 Seamus Murphy [10] Presented by Sunbeam Wolsey PLC
Swan Fountain Bishop Lucey Park 1985 John Behan [11]
120x120px The Onion Seller The Coal Quay
(Corn Market Street)		 1995 Seamus Murphy [12] Presented by Ray Doherty (Franchisee McDonald's)
120x120px Rory Gallagher Rory Gallagher Place
(formerly St. Paul's Square)		 1997 Geraldine Creedon [13]
120x120px George Boole Plaque Bachelors Quay

Southside

This is defined as the area of the city south of the south channel of the River Lee, and inside the South Ring Road (N40).

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
120x120px Cork 800 Memorial Cork City Hall 1985
120x120px Tomás Mac Curtain Cork City Hall
120x120px Terence MacSwiney Cork City Hall
120x120px Two Working Men Cork County Hall 1969 Oisín Kelly "Cha and Miah"
120x120px Christ the King Turners Cross 1931 John Storrs [14]
120x120px McCarthy Monument Blackrock Road 1870 William Atkins [15]
Resurrection Angel St Fin Barre's Cathedral.jpg Resurrection Angel Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral 1879 William Burges "The Goldy Angel"
120x120px Doorway Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral

Northside

This is defined as the area of the city north of the north channel of the River Lee.

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
120x120px Salmon Weathervane Church of St Anne, Shandon
120x120px Lost Industries Leitrim Street, Blackpool Denis O'Connor
120x120px Delaney Brothers monument Dublin Hill 1940 - 1950 [16]
120x120px Thomas Kent Cork Kent railway station James MacCarthy
Callaghan's Gate Lower Glanmire Road Entrance gateway to Lotabeg House [17]
Ship at Sail Tivoli Dual Carriageway 1996 Kevin Holland [18]

Fitzgerald's Park

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
120x120px Michael Collins Fitzgerald's Park Seamus Murphy [19]
120x120px Tom Barry Fitzgerald's Park Seamus Murphy [20]
120x120px Éamon De Valera Fitzgerald's Park Seamus Murphy
120x120px General Daniel Florence O'Leary Fitzgerald's Park 2010
Adam and Eve Fitzgerald's Park Edward Delaney [21]
120x120px Apple Woman Fitzgerald's Park 1968 Marshall Hutson [22]
Dreamline Fitzgerald's Park 1932 Seamus Murphy Sculpture has been restored and brought inside Cork Public Museum to protect it from the elements [23]
120x120px Boy with Boat Fitzgerald's Park Joseph Higgins [24]
120x120px Reflection Fitzgerald's Park James Horan [25]
120x120px Girl Dancer Fitzgerald's Park Oisín Kelly [26]
120x120px Girl with Seashells Fitzgerald's Park
120x120px Father Mathew Memorial Fountain Fitzgerald's Park
120x120px Abstract Sculpture Fitzgerald's Park 1974 Sergio Cuevas
120x120px Cois na Laoi Fitzgerald's Park 1994 Betty Gold
120x120px Titanic Memorial Fitzgerald's Park 2012 Erected by the Cork Titanic Society

University College Cork

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
The Growth Dome University College Cork Eilis O'Connell
Fantailed on the Falls University College Cork 1995 Conor Fallon
120x120px Female Nude University College Cork
Horse's Head University College Cork 1986 Michael Quane
120x120px Figure Talking to a Quadruped University College Cork 1995 Michael Quane [27]
120x120px George Boole University College Cork 2016 Paul Ferriter [28]
120x120px Republican Prisoners Memorial University College Cork Located on the wall of the old Cork County Gaol, which has been incorporated into the perimeter wall of UCC.
120x120px IRA Memorial University College Cork 1948 Memorial to 13 IRA prisoners executed in 1920 and 1921 during the War of Independence.
120x120px Saint Finbar University College Cork 1915 John Sisk & Sons Statue of Saint Finbar in the tympanum of the Honan Chapel. [29]

Past public art

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
120x120px George II Grand Parade, Cork 1762-1862 John Nost Damaged in 1862 and subsequently removed. Nicknames were "George-a-horseback", "The Yellow Horse"[30]
120x120px Boy and girl Green Coat Hospital School 1716 Now in St Anne's Church, Shandon. "Bob and Joan"[31]
120x120px Dunscombe Testimonial Fountain Shandon Street [32]

See also

References

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