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Dockers Monument Limerick

Name: Dockers Monument Limerick
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Location: Limerick, Munster, Ireland

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1. Limerick Three Bridges loop

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2. Dockers Monument Limerick – Arthur's Quay Park loop from Limerick Colbert

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3. Dockers Monument Limerick – Arthur's Quay Park loop from Limerick Colbert

11.2km

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Natalie

August 7, 2023

The Dockers Monument was erected in 2010 and acts as a tribute to the dockers of Limerick, who performed one of of the most physically challenging jobs in Limerick. The sculptor, Michael Duhan, was hails from Limerick and his own father was a docker here.

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June 6, 2024

Mike Duhan, Dockers Mike Duhan was an obvious choice of artist when Limerick City Council decided to commission a sculpture to commemorate the dockers who’d laboured for years unloading cargo boats on the River Shannon. After all, he’d grown up on Wolfe Tone St, just five minutes from Spokane Walk on Howley’s Quay, where the sculpture was to be situated; his father had been a seaman; and he’d studied at Limerick City School of Art.

As Duhan describes it, however, his Dockers sculpture had a difficult gestation. “There was an open call for submissions,” he explains. “I was naturally interested, given my connections to the place. When I read the brief for the commission, the first image that came to mind was a strong, simple visual; Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, The Potato Eaters."

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June 6, 2024

Duhan’s proposal was for four figures in bronze, “strong bruisers to celebrate the ordinary men of Limerick. Two would be carrying a plank, another would be carrying a bag of coal, and the fourth would be pushing a barrow. The commissioners came back and asked for more drawings and maquettes, and then I was given the job. I don’t think I was chosen based on the fact that I was from Limerick, I think they just liked my idea.”

Mike Duhan with his Dockers sculpture in Limerick.
Mike Duhan with his Dockers sculpture in Limerick.

The original budget was for €120,000. “But then there were problems with the funding, and the whole thing was delayed. When I realised the budget was the issue, I went back and proposed I do two figures, instead of four, for half the price. And they agreed to that.”

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Dockers Monument Limerick

1. Limerick Three Bridges loop

2. Dockers Monument Limerick – Arthur's Quay Park loop from Limerick Colbert

3. Dockers Monument Limerick – Arthur's Quay Park loop from Limerick Colbert

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