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Ireland Park

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These statues, by Rowan Gillespie, are collectively called "The Arrival", as I understand it. I was in Dublin about four years ago and arranged along the south shore of the Liffey are the corresponding Gillespie statues called "The Departure".

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I have some shots of Ireland Park myself, taken from that spring.

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Really? Someone leaves potatoes? Is that a sign of respect or a sick joke?

I suppose it could go either way, but I took it as a profound and deeply Irish tribute, particularly given their careful arrangement, and the number, four, logically representative of Ireland's four provinces. If it was intended as a joke, it's so Poe that it backfires spectacularly.
 
It's a rare Toronto memorial to something that doesn't look underwhelming in design and scale. Bolder and more expressive monuments do a better job of commemorating things than small and bland monuments.
 
Nice pictures! I don't think I've been back there since the park was finished.
Last time, I think, it was still partly a basketball court:

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Everyone: This is a quite interesting memorial concerning Toronto's Irish heritage especially remembering Toronto's WASP domination in the past...

Being of Irish descent myself I will ask if there is a list of names available for those who are named on it?

LI MIKE
 
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Wow! Great idea of Capturing all those nice spots at Ireland Park, Toronto:) I'm not really familiar with that Place until I saw it here:) The things I only knew about it is That Park looks like a small sanctuary that features fl at walkways of stone extending into a grassy corner, where five sculpted-bronze figures face the city. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
 

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