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Ireland's crappiest public art.

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  • #32
    Murrisk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Murrisk


    Shenshen wrote: »
    This :



    Has to be. Seriously.

    Sonia deserves better than that. :( There are lots of graceful poses they could have had her in.


  • #33
    Murrisk
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    The Spire is cool.

    Appearance-wise, it doesn't do much for it. But as an engineering feat, I really like it. The way it was constructed in pieces, with each piece narrowing towards the top and how all the piece fit together perfectly. Reminds me of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. At any point of the arch, the cross-section is an equilateral triangle. The Gateway Arch looks cooler though.


  • #34
    Baron Kurtz
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    Niall Quinn or maybe, Ronaldo :)


  • #35
    Sesame
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    This one:

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/modern-ireland-in-100-artworks-1988-the-great-wall-of-kinsale-by-eil%C3%ADs-o-connell-1.2603307


  • #36
    murpho999
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    Baron Kurtz wrote: »
    Niall Quinn or maybe, Ronaldo :)

    That's not in Ireland.


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  • #38
    Roger Hassenforder
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    The thing on the Kildare motorway
    A load of random metal sticks and stuff.
    Apparently it's deliberate.

    http://www.kildare.ie/arts/kildare-bypass-sculpture/race-of-the-black-pig.asp


  • #39
    Baron Kurtz
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    That's not in Ireland.

    I know, I know. But the Quinny likeness is funny.


  • #40
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Shenshen wrote: »
    This :

    zzzSoniaOSullivanStatue.jpg?width=648&s=ie-354923

    Has to be. Seriously.

    They really didn't do her justice did they? Did she owe someone money or something? :pac: size of the feet :eek:


  • #41
    tabby aspreme
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    I see a new, "something" between the Athy and Kilcullen junctions on the M9 , not sure is it a piece of art or a religious thingy , light blue in color with what looks like white Lily's on it , about 4 m high, anyone know anything about it.


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  • #42
    Bandana boy
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    I always thought the Neon walking Hooker on Parnell Square a bizarre one


  • #43
    tayto lover
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    Sesame wrote: »
    This one:

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/modern-ireland-in-100-artworks-1988-the-great-wall-of-kinsale-by-eil%C3%ADs-o-connell-1.2603307

    I thought that was a skate board park.


  • #44
    Guy:Incognito
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    Shenshen wrote: »
    This :

    zzzSoniaOSullivanStatue.jpg?width=648&s=ie-354923

    Has to be. Seriously.

    Did they reuse a Christ that fell off a crucifix ?


  • #45
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,933 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Bandana boy wrote: »
    I always thought the Neon walking Hooker on Parnell Square a bizarre one

    I really love that! There were a few of them on O Connell Street a few years back. The Hugh Lane must have bought one.


  • #46
    Ipso
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    I was told that in the past when there was a new motorway built with EU funding, a sculpture was meant to go along with it and it had to be something that reflected local tradition/culture/folklore.
    There is a very nice statue in the Curlew Mountains outside Sligo, I think there is one near Athlone that looks like four triangles pointing into the air that is meant to represent the Children of Lir.


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
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    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    The thing on the Kildare motorway
    A load of random metal sticks and stuff.
    Apparently it's deliberate.

    http://www.kildare.ie/arts/kildare-bypass-sculpture/race-of-the-black-pig.asp

    The outstanding winner of this contest by a mile and there is some tough candidates. What a piece of shíte that is. A permanent reminder of our Celtic Tiger senseless monkey spunking on ****e

    Dan George eh?! Prove that you can bluff a living with any crap

    race-of-the-black-pig3.jpg


  • #48
    osarusan
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    I actually find those pieces of art along motorways to be kind of distracting.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    I like the tug of war one but cant think where it is at the moment, Tipperary?


  • #50
    Tefral
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    mariaalice wrote: »
    I like the tug of war one but cant think where it is at the moment, Tipperary?

    Nenagh By-pass


  • #51
    Flibble
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    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    The thing on the Kildare motorway
    A load of random metal sticks and stuff.
    Apparently it's deliberate.

    http://www.kildare.ie/arts/kildare-bypass-sculpture/race-of-the-black-pig.asp

    This always makes me so so angry when I pass it. It makes no sense as you're driving, just looks like something was vandalised & is broken into bits.

    Hey, artist, if something needs you to stand there and explain it to people for them to get it (and the explanation is pretty crap, tbh) then maybe DON'T PUT IT BESIDE A MOTORWAY where every single person passing will be relying on literal seconds to form an opinion. Your Sculpture FAILS. It just looks horrible and messy and ridiculous.


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  • #52
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Like you don't have to do much to get a statue here really do you? Be on the radio in England? Is Graham Norton going to get a statue? I wonder if they'll give that aul one from Limerick who won the euro millions a statue? I wouldn't be surprised.


  • #53
    Patser
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    I really like the Fionn and his hounds statues just off the M7, as you enter the Curragh military camp. Dramatic, historic, appropriate and still artistic.

    folje0.jpg


  • #54
    snowflaker
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    I think the Spire is one of the better modern sculptures


  • #55
    Guy:Incognito
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    Patser wrote: »
    I really like the Fionn and his hounds statues just off the M7, as you enter the Curragh military camp. Dramatic, historic, appropriate and still artistic.

    folje0.jpg

    But it's rusty does that not automatically make it a pile of ****e?


  • #56
    snowflaker
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    c98e9e9afb022182703bde2526a14e27--pictures-of-ireland-irish.jpg

    A Pylon holding the book of Durrow... (not a fan!)


  • #57
    snowflaker
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The outstanding winner of this contest by a mile and there is some tough candidates. What a piece of shíte that is. A permanent reminder of our Celtic Tiger senseless monkey spunking on ****e

    Dan George eh?! Prove that you can bluff a living with any crap

    race-of-the-black-pig3.jpg

    I kinda like that one... :D


  • #58
    PARlance
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    The one in Longford is pretty impressive. It's a massive violin just stuck in a hill.

    It represents the sense of sorrow you have driving through the place.


  • #59
    marvin80
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    Ipso wrote: »
    There is a very nice statue in the Curlew Mountains outside Sligo,

    This one? http://www.conloncottages.com/images/horseman_viewing_point.jpg

    Looks great I think.


  • #60
    Patser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭Patser


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    But it's rusty does that not automatically make it a pile of ****e?

    When you actually see it you'll see it's not. That rusty colour seen above has weathered over the last few years to a deeper red. Almost certainly had to be by design.

    Edit :can I also say how I love that a user called Connall Cearnach liked that statue, thought he'd have been more a Cú Chulainn man.


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  • #61
    Patser
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    Can I nominate the cutsy wutsy little origami Rabbit that sits above the N2 in Meath. No idea its purpose.

    For those arguing about money spent on this, I remember hearing it's all an EU initiative for art to liven up boring long motorways across the continent. It's all EU money, so not from Irish finances directly, just a case of might as well get some, than just ignore it.

    And sure look at that little bunny nose!


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