Thomas Moore Statue

Poet, romantic and a good friend of those two 19^th century rabble-​rousers the Lords Shelley and Byron, I wonder if poor aul’ Tommo knew what would become of his Dublin effigy.
Parked at a very busy trintersection (that’s three points of intersecting traffic, thank you) just ahead of BoI’s College Green headquarters, Moore’s 1857 statue today garners a little less respect from Dublin pigeons thank his counterparts just a few hundred yards away behind Trinity’s walls.
Oh well, at least his bust in NYC gets a little more attention in it’s Central Park perch –surely the Fifth Avenue birds are a little more kindly.

This statue will forever be the statue that had a can of beer inserted into his hand to make it look like he was drinking it… it was consistently the funniest thing i saw every day on the way into college… and the fact that it was a new can every week made it even better.
But once it was cleaned up and the quill returned tt he hand of the poet and songwriter. it was nice to see the man returned to his posthumous sobriety.
This sculpture stands above Dublin’s famous public toilets. that i am not quite sure if they are still in use… but id be surprised if they were.

There are times when Dublin seems to be full of little ‘in jokes’. As if the cities founding fathers and mothers had a sense of humor. That’s why the 747 and 746 busses go to the airport. While the 13 goes to, ahem, Ballymun.
And it is in this tradition, that the man who wrote «The Meeting of The Waters» should be commemorated above a set of public toilets. Brilliant.