Dublin Statues and their Nicknames

Many of the statues of Dublin have been given nicknames by the locals - the ones I knew about are:

Statue of Molly Malone at the foot of Grafton Street - nicknamed the Tart with the Cart

Statue of Anna Livia (personification of the River Liffey as a woman sitting on a slope with water running down past her, bubbling) - nicknamed the Hoor in the Sewer, Viagra Falls or the Floozie in the Jacuzzi. This last nickname is apparently also applied to a fountain cum statue in Victoria Square Birmingham.

Others I have identified ( from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_statues_and_their_nicknames) include:

The Spire of Dublin on O'Connell Street. This was erected (to commemorate the Millennium) in January 2003. It has apparently already received a number of nicknames including the Stiletto in the Ghetto and the North Pole, (O'Connell Street being on the northside of Dublin).

Close to the Spire on North Earl Street is a statue of James Joyce apparently known as the Prick with the Stick.

By the recently restored Ha'penny Bridge over the Liffey is a statue of two women sitting talking on a bench with shopping bags at their feet - known as the Hags with the Bags.

There was also apparently a statue of Queen Victoria (removed in 1947) which was know as the Auld Bitch. This was apparently sold to Sydney in the 1980s.

Statues I haven't found a nickname for include:

The Famine Memorial on Custom House Quay - which is perhaps too harrowing for such levity

The poet Patrick Kavanagh next to the Grand Canal - apparently one of his favourite places.

Comments

[john]

I read somewhere that a statue of Daniel O'Connell in Dublin was popularly known as "The Artichoke."

There's a polished black marble sculpture outside Bank of America's 54-story world headquarters in San Francisco that locals refer to as "the banker's heart."

[Paul Fulton]

Hi. You may have already caught up with this, but Patrick Kavanagh's statue was sponsored in 1991 by an ex-client of mine (Zeneca Ireland) and has always been referred to as "The Crank on the Bank". I've just returned to UK froma few days in Dublin the first since the Spire was erected, and friends called this "The Rod to God".
Cheers

[Caro]

Just came back from Dublin 2 weeks ago..heres another nickname we heard for The Spire..." Stiffey by the Liffey"..and that came from the tour conductor on the Hop on-Hop Off bus after asking mothers to cover their childrens ears!!!
By the way..does anyone know who the sculptor is that did Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square?? Cant find it anywhere..thanks!!!

[Alex Williams]

It's Danny Osborne