In 2005, the Yeats statue was demolished by a drunk driver who failed to stop for police. It was later restored again and returned to its original site. (Courtesy of Choose Ireland website)
Lough Foyle, Moville co. Donegal
04 August, 2017
W.B. Yeats Statue
This original, unusual statue of Ireland’s national
poet William Butler Yeats was unveiled by his son in 1989 to mark the
50th anniversary of the writer’s death. The statue is located on Stephen Street, Sligo, in front of the Ulster Bank. Fashioned by Irish sculptor Rohan Gillespie, the statue is distinctive for billowing shape, and its engravings of excerpts from some of Yeats’s best-known poems.
In 2005, the Yeats statue was demolished by a drunk driver who failed to stop for police. It was later restored again and returned to its original site. (Courtesy of Choose Ireland website)
In 2005, the Yeats statue was demolished by a drunk driver who failed to stop for police. It was later restored again and returned to its original site. (Courtesy of Choose Ireland website)
It's very unusual!
ReplyDeleteUnusual but I really like it!
ReplyDeleteLove this unusual statue. Imagine being the one to take out a statue of Yeats. Hard to live that one down!
ReplyDeleteYes, a very unusual statue. But I like it nevertheless.
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...I never knew that he had such long legs!
ReplyDeleteDistinctive.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what WBY would have made of Rohan Gillespie's interpretation. I hope he would have thought it a great joke and absolutely loved it!
ReplyDeleteHe looks like he might take off with the breeze. I think we've walked by his Dublin home, somewhere between a B&B we stayed at on Ball's Bridge Road and a DART station. And quite near Crowe's Pub, I might add.
ReplyDeleteThat is unusual but I like its sense of movement. And it's nice that it presents bits of his work.
ReplyDeleteThis is unique, Bill! Thank you so much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine that looming up towards me through the swirling Irish mist after a night in the local bar - enough to make anyone swerve out of control.
ReplyDeleteI have a similar photo made in 2014 in the rain....:)
ReplyDeleteThis statue is really unusual, but it looks very interesting and lovely.
ReplyDeleteThat I remember.
ReplyDeleteThat is a poetic piece of sculpture Bill, I feel that Yeats would thoroughly approve ☺
ReplyDeleteThat really is an unusual looking statue but, I like it!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy memorial statues and sculptures that depart from the norm. This one is wonderful and so appropriate to honor Yeats. An interesting man and wonderful poet.
ReplyDeleteThis is a fabulous sculpture! I love the realism of his face and the sweeping curves of his body. Without knowing Yeats, the sculpture gives me an idea of his personality.
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