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Brushing Up
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Brushing Up: The Carvings of Commerce
Here’s the story behind the limestone panels on the outside of 23 Kildare Street, and why they have the look of socialist realism.
Brushing Up: A Stained-Glass Window Welcomes Backpackers
In the 1990s, the Irish Youth Hostel Association took charge of the chapel, and made a change.
Brushing Up: The Boundary Kings
If you seek them out in a different corner of the city, you can still see the colourful sculptures that used to stand on Thomas Street.
Brushing Up: A Sail-Less Windmill on Thomas Street
An old windmill has dominated the landscape in the Liberties for decades. But what happened to its sails?
Brushing up: Inchicore’s own Lourdes grotto
Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid tried to stamp out what he saw as the indulgences associated with Inchicore’s own Lourdes grotto. But that didn’t stop the crowds.
Brushing Up: Socrates in the National Botanic Gardens
Groundskeeper Denis McNally was curious about how a statue of the Greek philosopher came to be in a quiet corner among the plants. Here’s the story.
Brushing Up: The Holy Grail, or Not
An ornate silver and gold cup in the National Museum of Ireland remains a catalyst for theories about the mythical vessel.
Brushing Up: Rabindranath Tagore on St Stephen’s Green
Nestled among the foliage of St Stephen’s Green stands a monument to the Nobel Prize-winning poet often referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”, whose work W.B. Yeats loved.
Brushing Up: The Gargoyles of Gardiner Street
Look up on Gardiner Street and you might notice the square white faces, their mouths agape and eyebrows like Denis Healey.
Flat Mosaics
On the Kevin Street flats and another complex over the river on North Strand Road, the outside walls are wrapped in a band of mosaic. But who decided to do that?
Brushing up: a battered Greek sculpture at NCAD
In the last 50 years, “Laocoön and his Sons” has gone from a centrepiece of art education to a piece of furniture in the student union. What’s the story?
Brushing Up: a Weathered Statue of St Andrew
The sculptor behind the now-armless St Andrew was also behind the statues of Hibernia, Commerce, and Fidelity that sit atop the Bank of Ireland on College Green.