Category:Billy Byrne Monument, Wicklow

English: This monument was erected at the Market Square in Wicklow town in memory of Billy Byrne, one of the local leaders of the 1798 rebellion. The monument was designed by the Dublin architect Thomas Aloysius Coleman (1865–1950) and the statue was sculpted by George Smyth of Dublin (1858/9–1927). The foundation stone was laid on 27 July 1899, the statue was unveiled in 1900. (See NIAH record, dia.ie record for the statue, dia.ie entries for Thomas Aloysius Coleman and George Smyth, Rita Larkin, Smyth, Edward, in: Art and Architecture of Ireland / Volume III, p. 325, and Billy Byrne Memorial, in: Evening Herald, 10 December 1900, p. 4; George Smyth died on 26 May 1927 according to notices in the Evening Harald, 27 May 1927, p. 1., and Irish Times, 27 May 1927, p. 1.)