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Parke was born in 1857 at Clogher House[2] in Kilmore, County Roscommon, Ireland, and was brought up in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim. He graduated from the College of Surgeons in Dublin and was appointed to a post in Ballybay, County Monaghan. In 1881 he joined the British Army and served in Egypt[1] as a surgeon. Parke fought to Khartoum in relief of General Gordon in 1885 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heazle_Parke

Parke campaigned with Henry Morton Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. This expedition lasted three years and many were saved from death by Parke's courage and medical skills. He was known as the ' man who had saved Stanley'.[3] He thus became the first Irishman to cross the African continent. During the expedition Parke bought a pygmy girl. They travelled together for over a year and she nursed him through malaria. In the end he was forced to leave her behind because her eyes could not adapt to sunlight after the darkness of the forest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heazle_Parke

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Sculptor, Percy Guy Wood. ..erected 1896.

Street view in all his current glory - maps.google.ie/maps?q=kildare+street+Dublin&hl=en&...

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

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

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.

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!

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

Nice shot.

domenico milella Thank you.

Per the DIA, this is by: Name: FOLEY, JOHN HENRY * Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LEINSTER LAWN, PRINCE ALBERT STATUE Date: 1868 Nature: Bronze.

It's still on Leinster Lawn, now next to the Natural History Museum storyscope7test.ssl.co.uk/objectstories/2856 www.dublininquirer.com/2016/01/06/brushing-up-have-you-ev...

Foley also did Goldsmith in Trinity:


And Father Mathew in Cork! He designed the O'Connell Monument in O'Connell street, which was completed after his death.

Hamilton AND Burke in trinity too, plus Grattan in College Green!

Magnifica!

So much nicer without the railings. Isn't the statue in Australia now?

Is it a boer war memorial or is there just a sleepy soldier under it for fun?

And speaking of fun, there should be bronze knockers on the doors to facilitate our senses of humour.

Bronz Knockers indeed ! we are getting ideas above ones station. We only had Brass Knockers in Dublin, the bronze ones were right clangers.