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Monuments at the end of Empire
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Whelan 2002
• Fate of British monuments in Nationalist Dublin
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Memory
• The power of memory
• Colonial Era:• Colonial power wants to assert its narratives, myths,
stories, memories
• Post-Colonial Era:• Independent state wants to assert its own narratives,
myths, stories, memories
• Replace the old monuments with new
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Whelan 2002
• Statues of British monarchs erected in Dublin in C18th-19th
• Deliberately damaged by Irish Nationalists as symbols of British rule
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Statues under British Rule
• Erected 1701-1908 as monuments to British rule in Ireland
• Few statues commemorating the Irish• Begin after 1850
• A symbolic landscape of colonialism
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Nationalist Iconoclasm
• Desire to honour Republican heroes
• But some reluctance to destroy even the statues of colonialism• George III dynamited 1928• George I removed and eventually given to the City of
Birmingham• George II blown up 1937• Queen Vic removed 1948, given to Sydney NSW in 1986
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Noveau Dublin
• Dublin has renewed its public monuments
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Daniel O’Connell
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“The Silletto in the Ghetto”
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“The Floozie in the Jacuzzi”
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“Hags with Bags”
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