JAMES JOYCE tue tell Written by: RODDY DOYLE ta s a s s Animated by: GABRIEL BYRNE y t r o e r CU CHULAINN v y Written by: AMIENS ST E JAMES LARKIN Talking EOIN COLFER Animated by: Written by: ENDA WALSH EARL STREET NORTH PETER COONAN Animated by: STEPHEN REA w Statues Gerneral O’CONNEL STREET E Post Oce AC e HENRY ST. L w P JAMES CONNOLLY i D . R w ABBEY STREET LOWER O Written by: BRENDAN O'CARROLL Dublin n F i S DANIEL O CONNELL E . l ' R Animated by: BRENDAN O'CARROLL t E a b B l u CAPEL STREET k d MONUMENT - FIDELITY in s CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY gstatue Written by: PAULA MEEHAN Animated by: RUTH NEGGA BURGH QUAY GEORGE’S QUAY CITY QUAY RIVER LIFFEY LIFFEY ST. ST. LIFFEY BACHERLORS WALK D’OLIER ST ASTON QUAY GEORGE SALMON LOWER ORMOND QUAY Written by: JOE DUFFY MEETING PLACE Animated by: JOE DUFFY Written by: RACHEL KILFEATHER Animated by: BRENDA FRICKER PEARSE STREET TEMPLE BAR COLLEGE GREEN LOMBARD STREET EAST SUFFOLK ST. TRINITY COLLEGE HOW TO HEAR A TALKING STATUE NASSAU ST. WESTLAND ROW GRAFTON STREET Each Talking Statue has a blue plaque nearby. PLACE LINCOLN CLARENDON STREET 1 Scan the QR code on the sign using your phone’s QR GEORGE BERNARD SHAW OSCAR WILDE National reader or type the URL into your phone’s web browser. Written by: ARTHUR MATHEWS Gallery Written by: JOHN BANVILLE Animated by: STEPHEN BRENNAN of Ireland Animated by: ANDREW SCOTT MERRION SQUARE NORTH DAWSON ST. DAWSON 2 Press the green button that says ‘Go!’ National GRAND CANAL STREET LOWER KING ST. Museum of Ireland MERRION SQ. WEST 3 Your phone will ring. KILDARE ST MERRION 4 Answer the call and the statue will talk! SQUARE MOUNT STREET LOWER MERRION SQ. EAST ST. WOLFE TONE ST. STEPHENS GREEN STEPHENS Written by: PATRICK MCCABE MOUNT STREET UPPER GREEN Animated by: BRENDAN GLEESON CUFFE ST. Art by Joanna McCormick & Frog Morris TALKING STATUES DUBLIN JAMES LARKIN MEETING PLACE O'Connell Street Liey Street Lower Written by: ENDA WALSH Written by: RACHEL KILFEATHER Animated by: STEPHEN REA Animated by: BRENDA FRICKER WHO S TALKING WHERE? Statue by: OISÍN KELLY Statue by: JACKIE MCKENNA ' Standing over six feet tall, 'Big Jim' fought for a They are nicknamed the Hags with the Bags but fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay they’re not having any of it - they’re ready to talk back! If Dublin’s statues could talk, what stories would DANIEL O'CONNELL MONUMENT - FIDELITY they tell? 10 of the city’s most famous statues have O'Connell Street CU CHULAINN been given the gift of the gab. To hear them speak, Written by: PAULA MEEHAN General Post Oce, O'Connell Street just swipe your phone on a nearby plaque and get a Animated by: RUTH NEGGA Written by: EOIN COLFER call back from Gabriel Byrne as James Joyce, Ruth Statue by: JOHN HENRY FOLEY Animated by: PETER COONAN Negga as Fidelity on the O'Connell Monument, or On O’Connell Street stands the monument to Statue by: OLIVER SHEPARD Brendan Gleeson as Wolfe Tone! Each has a story to the 'Great Liberator' himself. But who is Fidelity, How did this fierce mythological hero win his name? tell. Together they tell Dublin’s story. the winged woman seated beneath him? GEORGE BERNARD SHAW JAMES CONNOLLY WOLFE TONE National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West Beresford Place St Stephen's Green Written by: ARTHUR MATHEWS Written by: BRENDAN O'CARROLL Written by: PATRICK MCCABE Animated by: STEPHEN BRENNAN Animated by: BRENDAN O'CARROLL Animated by: BRENDAN GLEESON Statue by: PAOLO TROUBETZKOY Statue by: EAMONN O'DOHERTY Statue by: EDWARD DELANEY Find out what connects My Fair Lady to the National What drove a 14 year old boy from Edinburgh to Meet the Irish republican and revolutionary who Gallery become a leader of the Easter Rising? sought to overthrow English rule GEORGE SALMON JAMES JOYCE OSCAR WILDE Trinity College Dublin, College Green Earl Street North Merrion Square North Written by: JOE DUFFY Written by: RODDY DOYLE Written by: JOHN BANVILLE Animated by: JOE DUFFY Animated by: GABRIEL BYRNE Animated by: ANDREW SCOTT Statue by: JOHN HUGHES Statue by: MARJORIE FITZGIBBON Statue by: DANNY OSBORNE This 19th-century mathematician and Provost has seen Find out why this very Irish writer ended up in As a man, he was known for his wit and Trinity transformed in ways he could never have Zurich while holding Dublin close to his heart flamboyance, and his statue is equally eloquent imagined.