Survey Data
Reg No
50100690
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Historical, Technical
Original Use
Monument
In Use As
Monument
Date
2010 - 2015
Coordinates
316007, 233240
Date Recorded
16/03/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding monument, erected 2011, to writer Rabindranath Tagore, comprising bronze bust of subject on square-plan cut limestone pedestal. Front of plinth inscribed 'Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941'. Located in cobbled setting within St. Stephen's Green, at side of footpath at south side of park.
Appraisal
Bust by artist Gautam Pal erected to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Indian literary Nobel Prize Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Presented by the Government of India, it is one of a number erected in various countries to mark his anniversary. Tagore and W.B. Yeats, who influenced each others work, met in 1912 in London. In 1913, Tagore’s play The Post Office was performed at The Abbey Theatre, in a fundraiser for Patrick Pearse’s school St. Enda’s. The bust is a fine example of artistic bronze casting. The monument forms part of a large and significant group of monuments in the park.