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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...

Corner of Pitt and Bridge streets, looking south.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sydney's older buildings and structures. , and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Charles Bayliss - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=413535

Several flags at half mast...lots of possible occasions... Date range 1887-1890: Empire Hotel, SW cnr Pitt/Hunter Sts (seen here in the mid distance on the rhs), built/opened 1887... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115449519 - Freeman's Journal, 19th November, 1887...'A New Sydney Hotel'... Exchange Hotel, SW cnr Pitt/Bridge Sts...the incarnation of the Exchange Hotel that we see in this pic was condemned in January 1890...it was subsequently demolished and replaced by a new hotel with an ornamental tower and cupola...I haven't managed to establish dates for the demolition and construction of the new hotel...just going on a Licensing Court application, the new hotel appears to have been built (and running) by ca. August 1890... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28276827 - SMH, 22nd January, 1890...City Improvement Board order re the demolition of the Exchange Hotel...the date for demolition ordered here was later extended... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/235773444 - the Daily Telegraph, 21st June, 1890...brief mention here of the new Exchange Hotel (architect N.C. Day) which appears to have then been under construction (see item mid first highlighted column)... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/113339543 - the Evening News, 15th August, 1890...'Licensing Court'...'a temporary license was granted to Ann Nightingale, for the Exchange Hotel, Bridge and Pitt Streets.' * take care not to mix up the Exchange Hotel, SW cnr Pitt/Bridge Sts and Aaron's Exchange Hotel, which adjoined the Royal Exchange (it was within/part of the Exchange Buildings)...Aaron's Exchange Hotel fronted both Pitt and Gresham Sts...both hotels appear in this pic... trove.nla.gov.au/work/170940115 - the NLA has a print of this pic...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exchange,_London "The Royal Exchange in London was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Thomas Gresham to act as a centre of commerce for the City of London. ... It has twice been destroyed by fire and rebuilt. The present building was designed by William Tite in the 1840s and is currently up for sale." This illustration is of an earlier building. Judging from www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/iln/34.html (an illustration from the Illustrated London News of 26 October 1844, p 265, the image here is of the first Royal Exchange, dated 1569 and replaced by 1669

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ANYTHING GOES ENGLAND,VINTAGE PHOTOS,POSTCARDS,EPHEMERAetc..., and we'd love to have this added to the group!

The Royal Exchange is the building on the right. www.infobritain.co.uk/Royal_Exchange_London.htm The building on the left is part of the Bank of England.

www.images-of-london.co.uk/jss/product.php?xProd=19 is of the same space in the same period. It has a link to a modern photo at www.images-of-london.co.uk/todayImage/bank.jpg The two sets of railings are for stairs going down to the tube (the London Underground). This is the Bank station.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exchange_(London)

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Architecture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!