Park
Eyre Square
Central city-centre park with a hooker-sail fountain, a medieval merchant doorway and a JFK bust.
0:00≈ 2 min
Location
0:00≈ 2 min
About this audio guide
This guide to Eyre Square in Galway follows a bronze statue of Lord Dunkellin, heir to the Clanricarde estates, from its unveiling in eighteen seventy-three to a May night in nineteen twenty-two. It asks who really paid for the monument, and what the landlord family's tenants made of it. Along the way you'll meet the sculptor John Henry Foley and a younger brother with a hard reputation. Best heard on the grass in the middle of the square.
This audio guide was created using AI.