Whose statue in Merrion Square, Dublin is known to irreverent Dubliners as “The Fag on the Crag”?
Merrion Square tree clumps, sunken curved paths and perimeter planting. Up until the 1960s the park was only open to residents in possession of a private key. Now managed by Dublin City Council, the park contains a statue of Oscar Wilde, who resided in No. 1, Merrion Square from 1855 to 1876, many other sculptures and a collection of old Dublin lamp standards. The Irish American sculptor Jerome Connor, best known for his work Nuns of the Battlefield in Washington DC, designed the public art piece, "Eire". The park also contains a sculpture of a Joker's Chair in memory of Father Ted
Merrion Square Merrion Square. Today they are located at Lumsden House, 29 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4 (see St John Ambulance archive for further info). Merrion Square was a fashionable address for politicians, lawyers, doctors and writers.<br> Notable residents include; Merrion Square Merrion Square () is a Georgian garden square on the southside of Dublin city centre. The square was laid out after 1762 and was largely complete by the beginning of the 19th century. The demand for such Georgian townhouse residences south of the River Liffey had been fuelled by the decision of the then Earl of Kildare (later the Duke