Rabindranath Tagore Memorial

Freestanding monument, erected 2011, to writer Rabindranath Tagore, comprising bronze bust of subject on square-plan cut limestone pedestal. Front of plinth inscribed 'Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941'. Located in cobbled setting within St. Stephen's Green, at side of footpath at south side of park.

Bust by artist Gautam Pal erected to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Indian literary Nobel Prize Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Presented by the Government of India, it is one of a number erected in various countries to mark his anniversary. Tagore and W.B. Yeats, who influenced each others work, met in 1912 in London. In 1913, Tagore’s play The Post Office was performed at The Abbey Theatre, in a fundraiser for Patrick Pearse’s school St. Enda’s. The bust is a fine example of artistic bronze casting. The monument forms part of a large and significant group of monuments in the park.