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Newgate Prison 1798 Memorial

artist unknown
1904

Description

Limestone statue of Erin, holding a laurel wreath, next to a Wolfhound, and a broken Celtic Cross is visible alongside her. She clutches a wreath. It stands on a square pedestal with stone relief medallions of Irish nationalists died in Newgate prison in 1798, the Sheares brothers and Lord Edward FitzGerald, whose portraits are on the monument, and Oliver Bond, William Michael Byrne, James Clinch, John McCann and other conspicuous Irishmen who fell in 1798.
The English text was written by Michael Davitt, and Patrick Nally made the Irish translation. The monument is unveiled on 31 July 1904 by James Collins, secretary of the Newgate Memorial Committee.

Dublin - Baile Átha Cliath - Newgate Prison 1798 Memorial
h. sheare
Henry Sheares (Cork 1753 - Dublin 1798), Irish lawyer and republican (Wikipedia).
lord edward [fitzger]ald
Lord Edward FitzGerald (Co. Kildare 1763 - Dublin 1798), Irish aristocrat and nationalist (Wikipedia).
j. sheare
John Sheares (Cork 1766 - Dublin 1798), Irish lawyer and republican (Wikipedia).

Inscription(s)

An leac so do toigeadh e le asbaint gur ar an bhfaithche so do bhì aon uair amhàin na seasam Priosùn
An geata nuaidh nar daoradh agus nar cuireadh cuin bais Adinuighceoiridhe Saoirseacht na hEireann
Suin go ndeanfar eas urram agus moir meas na hEireann dar fhulaing fior clann na nghaodhal ar
fea Saoirse do csaobs gaoladh agus do buanugad agus le suagairt os àrd go bhsuil muinghin laidir
na nghaodhal i dteagas g agus i goreidheamhùint na bhfear a bhsuil a n-ainmneaca sios ar an lic so le
làn dothghas go n-oibreocaid siad go fòill Saoirseacht na h-Eireann. Mi nodhlag 1903

Translation by Google translate:
This slab was built to infer that on this path was once only the Prison of the new gate that
was condemned and not put to death by the Irish Freemasonry.
Let there be respect and great respect for Ireland for which the true children of the gaols
suffered for the sake of freedom for the sake of their relatives and for their permanence and with
a loud prayer to the eyes of the strong faith of the gaols in the teaching and in the good teaching
of the men who are the eyes of their namesakes. down on this lick with full confidence that they will
work to the detriment of Irish Freemasonry. December 1903

Within this Park once stood
Newgate Prison
associated in dark and evil days
With the doing to death of
Confessors of Irish Liberty,
who gave their lives to vindicate
their country's right to
National Independence.
This memorial is erected
to perpetuate their memory,
to honour their motives and
to inculcate a grateful reverence
in irish minds
for sacrifices thus nobly made
for freedom
and to proclaim ireland's fidelity
to the principles of the men
whose names are hereon inscribed
in the belief that
these will yet redeem
and regenerate our fatherland
from subjection.

Artist

Unknown artist. Do you know who the sculptor is? please let us know.

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, List of public art in Dublin.
Irish War Memorials, Newgate Prison 1798 Memorial.
Sculpture Dublin, Art in Parks: Guide to Sculpture in Dublin City Council Parks, 2014 (PDF online).
Come here to me!, Statues of Dublin: Erin at Newgate Prison, St. Michan's Park..
Irish Independent, 1 August 1904 (British Newspaper Archive).

Location (N 53°20'57" - W 6°16'15") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ie394; Photograph: 23 June 2023
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