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I have taken the liberty of adding this to to our map as the Vatican City!!!

Lá Fhéile Phádraig sona daoibh go leir freisin. Gura fada buan sibh.

Paddywhack56 Go raibh maith agat a Phádraig!

pre-snakes?

圣帕特里克节快乐 from Shanghai! Is it just me or does Pope Celestine look a bit young for a Pope? oaktree_brian_1976 I would presume that this is still pre-snake banishment :-)

Both the statue and the plinth are still at City Hall - the statue has been moved inside (seen on the left in this panorama photo), whereas the plinth has been moved to the side (Streetview of plinth.)

Well done Sharon, now show how good you are by getting Dan's baptismal records in his parish register:-)

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Unfortunately, the Caherciveen recordsdon't go back that far :-)

The sculptor was Waterford-born John Hogan:

For at the time that he began to work on the statue, about 1844, O'Connell was long past the prime of manhood . He was, in fact, nearly seventy and had only a few years to live. There was no longer anything of the Greek athlete about him — if ever there had been. Always a big man, he had grown rather fleshy. But Hogan, being a great and highly sensitive artist, was able to give refined statement to the unrefined fact of O'Connell's prodigious physique. Thus, without denying that here and there O'Connell tended unduly to bulge, he designed the classical folds of the mantle to carry one over to the dignity, one might indeed say to the majesty, of the figure as a whole, to the heroic proportions and movement, the splendid shoulders, the magnificently poised head. Again, there is no denial of the unclassical pugnaciousness of the O'Connell chin, but how Hogan balances it by insisting on the fine lines about the mouth, suggestive of mobility, of eloquence, of charm, of humour. Here is where one realises that all the stories of O'Connell's genius as an orator must be absolutely true.

Some Statues by John Hogan by Thomas MacGreevy in The Father Mathew Record, August 1943

Three degrees of separation from Library Towers - John Hogan was apprenticed to Thomas Deane, father of Thomas Newenham Deane, who designed the National Library and National Museum buildings...

A good days work.

There are many recent googlesphere panos from up there on the dome. Here is one from 2016 - goo.gl/maps/gSirAE3h51qzCSDA9

I think this is from the catalogue of Ferrier P. F. & Soulier, J. Levy like the one below:

Flickr sometimes has too many 'nows' to choose from! This one is hi-res, in 2013 via Atilla2008

The Getty Institute has an entry in their catalogue saying: ZSG2-E1I8.33 Ferrier, Rome, vue prise de la couple de Saint-Pierre Scope and Content Note Numbered in negative: 7270 which would back up the Ferrier connection. In that case it would be likely that the original photo at least is pre-1864, as that's when Léon and Lévy bought the collection of Ferrier et Soulier.