Oisín Kelly
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Oisín Kelly, born Austin Kelly, (1915 - 1981) was an Irish sculptor.
Until he became an artist in residence at the Kilkenny Design Centre in 1966, Oisín Kelly worked as a school teacher. He initially attended night class at the National College of Art and Design and studied briefly in 1948-49 under Henry Moore. He originally concentrated on small wood carvings and his early commissions were mostly for Catholic churches. He became well-known after he was commissioned to do a sculpture, The Children of Lir (1964), for Dublin's Garden of Remembrance, opened in 1966 on the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. More public commissions followed, perhaps most notably the monumental statue of the labour leader James Larkin on Dublin's O'Connell Street.
[edit] Works on display
- The Children of Lir (1964) Garden of Remembrance, Dublin
- Two Working Men (1969) by County Hall, Cork
- Roger Casement (1971) Banna Strand, Co. Kerry
- Jim Larkin (1977) O'Connell Street, Dublin
- Chariots of Life (1978) Irish Life Centre, Dublin
[edit] References and external links
- Fergus Kelly (2002) Kelly, Oisín in Brian Lalor (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillian. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2
- Judith Hill (1998) Irish public sculpture. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-274-7
- Biographical note on the RTÉ site
