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Dublin Institute of Technology 
School of Languages Law and Society 
Module: Irish Cultural Studies 
 
Semester 1 Academic Year 2015-16 
Student Name: x 
Student ID. No.: x 
Student Name: x 
Student ID. No.: x 
Lecturer: Marc Gerard Gallagher 
300452@dit.ie & marcgallagher5@gmail.com 
 
Assignment 3 (Final Assignment) 40% 
Submission date: Friday 18th December (ALL participants) 
Take a trip around Dublin city and within a selected area, say for example Dublin 1 or 2, etc., try 
to find as many commemorative plaques to Irish (Anglo-Irish) persons or important events as 
you can; if possible list them. Note that the person may be a fictional character. 
 
Should you have digital camera provide some images. 
Instructions: In the case of one and only one person write a short account of the life and 
contribution to Ireland of the individual commemorated on the plaque or if in the case of an 
event provide a short but detailed account of the ‘happening’. In addition, try to solicit from Irish 
people their knowledge of the person or event and add this to your field and desk research 
 
 
 
Name: Sir William Robert Wills Wilde 
Location: Merrion Square N 
Description: Sir William Robert Wills Wilde was an eye and ear surgeon, and writer of important 
works on medicine, folklore and archaeology; he was also the father of Oscar Wilde. Sir William 
was born on March 1815, at Kilkeevin, in County Roscommon and died on 19 April 1876, was 
the youngest of three siblings. In 1837, he graduate in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 
In 1851, Sir Wilde married Jane Francesca Agnes Elgee and had three children, Willie, Oscar 
and Isola Francesca, who died in childhood. However, Sir Wilde had three more children out of 
the marriage, but Sir Wilde acknowledged paternity of his illegitimate children and provided for 
them. In addition, he was recognized as a successful surgeon, and was awarded a knighthood in 
1864. Even though, his reputation suffered a lot when a long-term patient and friend of his 
daughter called Mary Travers, claimed that he had seduced her. (Libraryireland.com, 2015) 
 
 
 
 
Name: Oscar Wilde 
Location: Merrion Square N 
Description: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, was born in Dublin, United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, the current Republic of Ireland, October 16, 1854, and died in Paris, 
France, November 30 1900. He was an influential writer, British playwright and poet. After 
writing in different ways throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights 
of London in 1890. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and parts, and the circumstances of 
his arrest, which was followed by his death early. 
In 1892, begins a series of success stories, today classics of British drama: 
 
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) 
A woman without importance (1893) 
An Ideal Husband (1895) 
The Importance of Being Ernest (1895). 
 
Publishes tales as 
The Happy Prince 
The Nightingale and the Rose 
The crime of Lord Arthur Saville. 
His only novel was The Picture of Dorian Gray. 
 
Oscar Wilde pioneered the drama movie creation and action. 
The financial situation of Wilde began to improve, and with it, achievement even greater fame. 
The literary success was accompanied by a very worldly life, and their attitudes became 
increasingly eccentric. 
 
However, in May 1895, after three trials, he was sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor 
for committing immoral acts with several boys. (Biography.com, 2015) 
 
 
 
 
Name: Daniel O’Connell 
Location: Merrion Square N 
Description: Daniel O'Connell was born in Cahirciveen, August 6, 1775, and died in Genoa, May 
15, 1847; often referred to as The Liberator or The Emancipator was an Irish nationalist leader of 
the early nineteenth century. He campaigned for Catholic Emancipation, including the right of 
Catholics to sit in the Parliament of Westminster, denied for more than 100 years, and the repeal 
of the Act of Union that combined Britain and Ireland. There is a statue of Daniel in the city of 
Dublin, Ireland. (Ireland-information.com, 2015) 
 
 
 
 
 
Name: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 
Location: Merrion Square S 
Description: He was born in 28 august 1814, at 45 Lower Dominck Street, Dublin. Started the 
college in 1833 at Trinity College. In 1838 started to publish short text on the university 
magazine and in 1840 he owned several newspapers, such as Dublin Evening Mail and the 
Warder. 
 
He was mainly known for his mystery and horror stories, among his major works are: 
Uncle Silas (1864) 
 Is a macabre mystery novel and a classic of gothic horror. A film version under the same 
name was made in 1947, and renamed in 1987 under the name of “The Dark Angel” 
 
In a Glass Darkly (1872) 
 A collection of five short stories in the horror and mystery genres, presented as the 
posthumous papers of the occult detective Dr Hesselius. (Biography.yourdictionary.com, 2015) 
 
 
 
 
 
Name: Andrew O’Connor 
Location: Merrion Square S 
Description: He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on 7 June 1874 and died on 9 June 1941, 
he was a sculptor and his works are spread around museum in America, Ireland, Britain and 
Frace. 
 In 1906 he was the first foreign sculptor to win the Second Class medal for his statue of 
General Henry Ware Lawton.(Tate, 2015) 
 
 Some of his works: 
 
• General Henry Ware Lawton 
• Tristan and Iseult 
• Lafayette 
• Lincoln 
 
 
 
 
Name: Senator William Butler Yeats 
Location: Merrion Square S 
Description: He was born in Sandymount County Dublin on 13 June 1865 and died on 28 
January 1939 in Cannes, France. He was a Poet, Playwright and Nobel Prize Winner for 
Literature. Yeats became a member of Irish Senate in 1923. 
 He died in Roquebrune in 1939. In 1948, his body was brought back to Ireland and laid to 
rest in Sligo. Yeats's earlier poems, such as The Wanderings of Oisin (1889) and The Rose 
(1893), celebrate the Irish landscape of his boyhood and explore pagan Irish themes 
(Web.archive.org, 2015). 
 
 Some of his works: 
 
• Mosada 
• The Wandering of Oisin and Other Poems 
• The Wind Among the Reeds 
• The Shadowy Waters 
• In the Seven Woods 
• The Tower 
• On the Boiler 
 
 
 
 
Name: John Henry Newman 
Location: Merrion Square S 
Description: He born in London on 21 February 1801 and died in Edgbaston on 11 August 1890. 
He was an anglican sacerdot converted to catholicism. He studied at Trinity College in 1816 and 
at Oriel College in 1822. He built the University Church of Ireland. Where some year later James 
Joyce studied between the years of 1899 - 1902. 
 He opposed that the First Vatican Council (1869-1870) would issue a document of papal 
infallibility. He was not opposed to the concept but felt that the doctrine should be given more 
time to mature before it was codified. Once the doctrine was proclaimed, he strongly defended it. 
For many years he endured attacks and criticism from within and without the Church. Returned 
to Oxford as honorary fellow of Trinity College, February, 1878. 
The cause for his beatification was opened in 1958. Pope John Paul II signed the document 
acknowledging he practiced the Christian virtues in a heroic degree and declared him Venerable, 
January 22, 1991. At the beginning of 2008, in preparation for his beatification, the Vatican 
requested that his remains be transferred to the chapel of the Oratory of Birmingham and placed 
in a marble sarcophagus so that the faithful can venerate them more easily (3). On July 3, 2009, 
the pope authorized the publication of the decree of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints 
concerning a miracle attributed to his intercession. In a ceremony celebrated on September 19, 
2010, in Birmingham, England, Pope Benedict XVI declared him a blessed. (Www2.fiu.edu, 
2015) 
 
 
 
 
 
Name: Lord Edward Carson 
Location: HarcourtSt 
Description:Edward Henry Carson was born on 9 February 1854, and died on 22 October 1935. 
From 1900 to 1921 was known as Sir Edward Carson, and was an important irish unionist 
politician, barrister and judge. In addition,he was the leader of the Unionist Alliance and Ulster 
Unionist Party between 1910 and 1921, and held numerous positions in the cabinet of the United 
Kingdom. He was one of the few people that receive a state funeral, and had a statue erected in 
Northern Ireland. (Bbc.co.uk, 2015) 
 
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Unionist_Alliance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party
 
 
Name: George Fitzmaurice 
Location: Harcourt St 
Description: He born in Paris on 13 February 1885 and died in Los Angeles on 13 June 1940. 
He started his career as a set designer for stage productions, he was able to break into films in 
1908 doing the same work. He dabbled in screenwriting and then began directing, at first 
sporadically, in 1914. He soon became recognized as a talent and developed a name for himself 
as a specialist in romantic dramas. His career lasted more than thirty-five years. Although his 
films include such well-known works as The Son of the Sheik (1926), Raffles (1930), and Mata 
Hari (1931), he never quite reached the upper reaches of his profession, but was always 
considered a reliable and occasionally innovative workman.(IMDb, 2015) 
 
He has a large filmography, some them are: 
 
• The Commuters 
• The Test 
• The Iron Heart 
• The Hunting of the Hawk 
• The Avalanche 
• A Society Exile 
• On With the Dance 
• Right to Love 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name: Sir Jonah Barrington 
Location: Harcourt St 
Description: Sir Jonah Barrington was born at Knapton, Abbeyleix 1760 and died at Versailles, 
France on 8 April 1834. Sir Barrington was an important Irish lawyer, judge and politician. He is 
known for his humorous memories and the opposition to the Act of the Union in 1800. 
Moreover, his opposition to the Act of Union, le.ad to the creation of movements such as Young 
Ireland, and Irish Parliamentary Party (Libraryireland.com, 2015). 
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeyleix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_(city)
 
 
 
Name: George William Russell 
Location: Merrion Square S 
Description: George William Russell was born in Lurgan, April 10, 1867, and died in 
Bournemouth, July 17, 1935. He was a writer, who used to write under the pseudonym AE, was 
a writer who supported the Nationalist Movement in Ireland, as well as a critic, poet and painter. 
He was also a mystic and spiritual writer and the center of a group of Theosophists followers in 
Dublin for many years. 
Russell is the author of The Candle of the Vision, which is regarded as one of the most 
influential books on mysticism published in the twentieth century, and has produced a number of 
highly evocative mystical paintings. He was a close friend of theosophist WB Yeats, having met 
him in Dublin Art School (Craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk, 2015). 
 
 
 
 
Name: Ulysses (James Joyce) 
Location: O’Connell Bridge 
Description: Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce. Was composed between 1914 and 1921 in 
Trieste (Italy), Zurich (Switzerland) and Paris (France) and published the following year in this 
city. By describing, at various points, aspects of human physiology then considered unprintable, 
the book was censored in several countries, like the United States and the United Kingdom. 
Ulysses fits Homer's Odyssey, condensing the journey of Odysseus (in the person of Leopold 
Bloom a publicist) in 18 hours, on June 16, 1904 and the crack of dawn the next day. 
(PenguinRandomhouse.com, 2015) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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