About us

Walk down any street in an Irish town or city and chances are you'll pass a statue without giving it a second glance. A bronze figure on a plinth. A name on a plaque. Maybe a vague sense that you should know who this person was.

Statues of Ireland started with a simple question — who are these people, and why do they deserve to be remembered?

Behind every statue is a story. A life lived with enough passion, courage, creativity or impact that someone thought it worth casting in bronze for generations to see. Some of those stories are well known. Many are half-forgotten. A few are almost entirely unknown to the people who walk past them every day.

This project is dedicated to finding those stories and telling them properly. Every statue on this site has been photographed in person and researched from scratch. We don't copy Wikipedia entries or recycle press releases. We visit the statues, read the plaques, dig into the history and write something worth reading.

What we're building

Statues of Ireland is a growing archive of Ireland's public art — statues, monuments and memorials from Dublin and beyond. We're documenting who these figures were, who created the works, when they were unveiled and what they mean to the places they stand in.

In time we hope to develop walking tours, an interactive map of statue locations and a resource that is genuinely useful to visitors, students, locals and anyone with a curiosity about Irish history and culture.

Who we are

We're not academics or institutions. Just people with a camera, a curiosity about history and a conviction that the stories standing on our streets deserve to be told.

If you'd like to support the project, visit our Donate page. If you know of a statue we should cover, we'd love to hear from you.