BENCHMARKS
continued
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
M.C.
recorded this one on Dublin's O'Connell Street. It's at the base of
the statue of the temperance priest, Father Mathew, by sculptress
Mary Redmond. According to Nora J Ryder’s article in the Capuchin
Annual (1932) the male model for the Father Mathew statue took the
concept of getting plastered a little too far, was dismissed for
drunkenness and was later convicted for vandalising her work.
Below:
The 'mark at the base of the Father Mathew statue.
Above:
A view of Upper O'Connell Street with the 'mark at the base of the
statue.
