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Spread across its bucolic lawns and walkways are some notable artworks, beginning
with one of the Countess in the southeast corner. Guinness money built the park, so Sir Ar-
thur has also been immortalised, with an 1892 statue on the park's western side. Just north
of here, outside the railings, is a statue of Irish patriot Robert Emmet (1778-1803), who
was born across the road where numbers 124 and 125 stand; his actual birthplace has been
demolished. The statue was placed here in 1966 and is a replica of an Emmet statue in
Washington, DC. There is also a bust of poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-49) and a
curious 1967 statue of WB Yeats MAP GOOGLE MAP by Henry Moore. The centre of the
park has a garden for the blind MAP GOOGLE MAP (St Stephen's Green, Southside) , complete with
signs in Braille and plants that can be handled. There is also a statue of the Three Fates MAP
GOOGLE MAP , presented to Dublin in 1956 by West Germany in gratitude for Irish aid
after WWII. In the corner closest to the Shelbourne Hotel is a monument to Wolfe Tone MAP
GOOGLE MAP , the leader of the abortive 1798 invasion; the vertical slabs serving as a
backdrop to Wolfe Tone's statue have been dubbed 'Tonehenge'. At this entrance is a me-
morial to all those who died in the Famine.
On the eastern side of the green is a children's playground MAP GOOGLE MAP and to the
south there's a fine old bandstand , erected to celebrate Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887.
Musical performances often take place here in summer. Near the bandstand is a bust of
James Joyce , facing Newman House ( Click here ) , part of University College Dublin (UCD),
where Joyce was once a student. On the same side as Newman House is Iveagh House . Ori-
ginally designed by Richard Cassels in 1730 as two separate houses, they were bought by
Benjamin Guinness in 1862 and combined to create the family's city residence. After in-
dependence the house was donated to the Irish State and is now home to the Department
of Foreign Affairs.
Of the many illustrious streets fanning from the green, the elegant Georgian Harcourt St
has the most notable addresses. Edward Carson was born at No 4 in 1854. As the architect
of Northern Irish unionism, he was never going to be the most popular figure in Dublin,
but he did himself no favours acting as the prosecuting attorney during Oscar Wilde's trial
for homosexuality. George Bernard Shaw lived at No 61.
NEWMAN HOUSE
MAP GOOGLE MAP
NOTABLE BUILDING
(85-86 St Stephen's Green South; adult €5; tours noon, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm Tue-Fri Jun-Aug; 10, 11, 13, 14 or
15A, St Stephen's Green) One of the finest examples of Georgian architecture open to the
public are these two townhouses, founded by Cardinal Newman as the Catholic University
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