List of Past Dublin Statues and Monuments
- King George II - St Stephen's Green (blown up 1937)
- William of Orange - College Green (blown up 1946)
- Queen Victoria - Merrion Square, removed in 1947, put on display in Sydney, Australia in 1987.
- Bowl of Light - O'Connell Bridge - nicknamed "The Tomb of the Unknown Gurrier". Thrown into the Liffey in 1953. Replaced with a flowerbed nicknamed "The Thing".
- Gough Monument - Phoenix Park (Badly damaged by a bomb in 1957) Was later auctioned by the corporation and bought by a member of the Guinness family who gifted the statue to a descendent of Gough, Sir Humphrey Wakefield who restored the statue and erected it in Chillingham Castle.
- Nelson's Pillar - O'Connell Street (blown up 1966)
- Millennium Clock - River Liffey (removed 1999)
- "The Chime in the Slime", "The Clock in the Dock".
- Anna Livia - Croppy Acre Memorial Park, Dublin. Formerly in O'Connell St.
- "The Floozie in the Jacuzzi", "The Whore in the Sewer" (whore is pronounced "hoo-er")
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