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Sandycove - Cuas an Ghainimh
(Glasthule & Sandycove)
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown

Otranto Park
(The Maze)

Stele

King Laoghaire, High King of Ireland in the 5th century (Wikipedia).
St. Patrick, (Modern Irish: Pádraig) 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the 'Apostle of Ireland', he is the primary patron saint of the island.

Imogen Stuart & Aisling Stuart
2022

Description

Nearly three meter tall Wicklow granite standing stone, triangular in cross section, carved with representations of King Laoghaire and St. Patrick on two sides, with a third side carved in bi-lingual bas relief script - to the right is this text are depictions of two fish, a bird and a seal. The wording is from is an anonymous 9th-century poem in Old Irish, translated in English by Tim O'Neill and Seamus Heaney.
The carving is by Ciaran Byrne.
The Stele is unveiled by President Michael D. Higgins on 6 May 2022.

Sandycove - Cuas an Ghainimh - Stele
King Laoghaire
St. Patrick

Inscription(s)

is acher
ingáith
innocht
fufuasna
fairggae
findfolt.
ni ágor
réimm
mora minn
dond
láechraid
lainn ua
lothlind.

wind fierce
tonight.
mane of the
sea whipped
white. i am
not afraid.
no ravening
norse on
course
through
quiet waters

Signature

imo | gen

Sculptors

Aisling Law nô Stuart, Irish sculptor, daughter of Ian Stuart and Imogen Stuart.
Imogen Stuart, née Werner (1927), German-Irish sculptor, working in Sandycove. She married in 1948 the Irishman Ian Stuart (Wikipedia – Aosdana).

Sources & Information

Imogen's Standing Stone, Sandycove and Glasthule Residents Association Newsletter, November 2019 (online).
Ciaran Byrne Stone, Stele.
Independent.ie, 9 May 2022, President Higgins unveils new sculpture overlooking Dublin Bay.
Broadsheet.ie, 9 May 2022, Stele Away.
Wikipedia, Is acher in gaíth in-nocht.

Locatie (N 53°17'14" - W 6°6'55") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ie380; Photograph: 22 June 2023
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