4/5 William M. 7 years ago on Google
I
like
this
work
by
Oisín
Kelly
but
every
time
I
try
to
photograph
it
there
are
workmen
in
the
way
and
today
was
no
exception.
The
Children
of
Lir
was
commissioned
for
the
Garden
of
Remembrance
which
is
located
in
Parnell
Square.
The
Garden
was
designed
by
former
Dublin
City
Architect
Daithi
P.
Hanly,
who
commissioned
Oisín
Kelly
to
make
a
statue
to
commemorate
Irish
freedom
fighters.
The
massive
sculpture
was
unveiled
on
Easter
Monday
1966.
The
sculpture
drew
much
criticism
on
the
grounds
that
it
was
not
appropriate
that
a
subject
from
pagan
legend
such
as
the
children
of
Lir
should
be
installed
in
a
public
park
in
a
Christian
country.
Back
in
the
1960s
the
sort
of
people
who
objected
to
Beatle
haircuts
object
to
every
new
public
sculpture
so
it
is
not
surprising
that
the
‘Children
Of
Lir’
attracted
their
displeasure.
A
plaque
next
to
the
statue
carries
the
words:
“In
the
darkness
of
despair
we
saw
a
vision.
We
lit
the
light
of
hope
and
it
was
not
extinguished.
In
the
desert
of
discouragement
we
saw
a
vision.
We
planted
the
tree
of
valour
and
it
blossomed.
In
the
winter
of
bondage
we
saw
a
vision.
We
melted
the
snow
of
lethargy
and
the
river
of
resurrection
flowed
from
it.
We
sent
our
vision
aswim
like
a
swan
on
the
river.
The
vision
became
a
reality.
Winter
became
summer.
Bondage
became
freedom
and
this
we
left
to
you
as
our
inheritance.
O
generations
of
freedom
remember
us.
The
generations
of
the
vision.”
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