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Mr John McCormack placing a wreath on the cenotaph erected to the memory of the late Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith at Leinster Lawn

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 35 older comments, and then…
• Sharon Corbet said:

  Considering it was dismantled in 1939 (by DeValera), I certainly never saw it! It was replaced in 1950.

• Niall McAuley said:

  The DIA records it as G.A. designer of temporary cenotaph erected in memory of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, 1923

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Archiseek has more info on it and Atkinson: Atkinson was headmaster of the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, 1918-1937, and first director of the National College of Art.

• Niall McAuley said:

  Ha ha! Anne Dolan's book "Commemorating the Irish Civil War" has a section on it titled "The elephant on Leinster Lawn", and says some labelled it "the dire apparition of the Griffith-Collins singularity", so I guess it was not universally popular!

• Niall McAuley said:

  You can't tell from this photo, but there is a forty foot celtic cross in the middle.