List of public art in Galway city
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This is a list of public art on permanent display in Galway City Ireland. The list applies only to public art accessible in a public space; it does not include artwork in display inside museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals and mosaics.
Public art in city centre
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Galway hookers Monument | Eyre Square | 1984 | Éamonn O'Doherty | [1] | ||
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Browne Doorway | Eyre Square | 1627 | [2] | |||
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Pádraic Ó Conaire (Bronze replica) | Eyre Square | 2017 | Maurice Quillinan, based on 1935 original by Albert Power | [3] Limestone original now in Galway City Museum (see below) | ||
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Liam Mellows Monument | Eyre Square | 1957 | Domhnall Ó Murchadha | [4] | ||
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Kennedy Memorial | Eyre Square | 1965 | Albert O'Toole | |||
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Lynch Coat of Arms, Lynch's Castle | Shop Street | Medieval | Unknown | |||
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Christopher Columbus Monument | Spanish Arch Parade | 1992 | Mick Wilkins | [5] | ||
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Oscar Wilde & Eduard Vilde | William Street | 2004 | Replica of original by T. Kirsipuu [6] | Original of this sculpture is located in Tartu.[7] | ||
| Final Journey | Forster Street | 2009 | Mick Wilkins | Magdalen women memorial [8] | |||
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Galway Girl | Quay Street 53.2711°N 9.0541°W |
2022 | [9] |
The Claddagh and Salthill
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Claddagh Memorial Sculpture | Claddagh Quay | 2003 | Mick Wilkins | [10] | ||
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Thomas Nicholas Burke | Nimmo's Pier, Claddagh | 1948 | John Francis Kavanagh[11] | [12] | ||
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Naomh Máirtín de Porres | St. Mary's Priory, Claddagh Quay | 1989 | James McKenna | [13] | ||
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Claddagh Icon | Father Griffin Road/ Fairhill Road Upper 53.2694°N 9.0572°W |
2009 | John Coll | [14] | ||
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Galway Famine Ship Memorial | Celia Griffin Memorial Park, Salthill | 2012 | [15] |
University of Galway
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Cathal Ó Fríl Monument | University of Galway | |||||
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Ceiliúradh | University of Galway | John Coll | ||||
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Equality Emerging | University of Galway | 2001 | John Behan | [16] | ||
| Twin Spires | University of Galway | John Behan |
Past public art
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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| From Here To | Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology library, Ballybane | 2007 | Grace Weir | Individual counters affixed to the interior walls of the library showed the distances of each of the planets to the library, as they moved continually in real time.[17] | |||
| Lord Dunkellin | Eyre Square | 1873 | John Henry Foley | Destroyed in 1922 [18] | |||
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Pádraic Ó Conaire | Eyre Square | 1935 | Albert Power | Limestone original vandalised in 1999. Now in Galway City Museum[19] |
