Dublin’s Famous Statues and Memorials

this city is blessed with numerous
monuments and statues hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be taking a look at some of
Dublin’s most famous statues statues are
a typical feature of the Dublin
landscape the famine memorial was
erected commemorate the food crisis of
the 19th century which caused the
country to lose over 1 million residents
to starvation or emigration the Statue
of Jim Larkin faces clerys department
store Larkin was a founder and the first
leader of the Irish labor party Molly
Malone is the character in a song that
is considered a Dublin anthem called
cockles and mussels the character of
Molly worked both as a fishmonger and a
working girl patrick kavanagh is one of
Ireland’s favorite poets a statue
commemorating his contributions to
literature sits near Dublin’s grand
canal as was requested in one of the
writers poems many of Dublin statues
have been given lewd nicknames Dublin
statues are some of the most important
elements of the city’s landscape and are
visited by many