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In 1843, an article in The Nation observed how
We now have statues to William the Dutchman, to the four Georges — all either German by birth or German by feeling (…), while not a single statue of the many celebrated Irishmen whom their country should honour adorns a street or square of our beautiful metropolis.1
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Usher, R. (2012). Public Sculpture after 1700. In: Protestant Dublin, 1660–1760. Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230362161_4
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