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'Famine' — Custom House Quay

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'Famine' — Custom House Quay
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Group of bronze statues by Rowan Gillespie, erected 1997. Group of six human figures carrying bundles, one carrying person followed by figure of dog, all facing east on Custom House Quay. Each figure is over two metres in height set in bronze base flush to ground with group set in area of granite setts with bronze commemorative plaques randomly dispersed among group. Original plaque states: 'FAMINE'/ 'I feel this sculpture is not complete until the figures are crossing a sea of names, names cast in bronze and set into the cobble surround, thousands of names, names of those who have pledged to care' / Rowan Gillespie'.

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