Dublin City Council Parks and Landscape Services
DUBLIN LITERARY PARKS
Many Dublin City Council parks feature in works
by Dublin writers – from Bull Island in Roddy
Doyle’s The Van to Merrion Square in Sheila
O’Flanagan’s Far From Over. Dublin City Council
parks are convenient to public transport routes.
For more information on literary Dublin, please visit
www.dublincityofliterature.ie
Dublin City Council Parks and Landscape
Services design and manage the city’s parks,
providing an attractive and sustainable city.
www.dublincity.ie
For a full list of parks, visit
www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture
Danny Osborne’s
Oscar Wilde Memorial
in Merrion Square
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Croppies Memorial Park
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is located at Wolfe Tone Quay. The park is a memorial to
the Croppy Boys of the 1798 Rebellion, some of whom,
it is believed, were buried here after execution. An
ornamental water feature consisting of sections
of Wicklow granite mounted on columns from
the former Guinness Mansion at St. Anne’s
Park was installed here in 1983. The Anna
Livia sculpture, named after Anna
Livia Plurabelle in James Joyce’s
Finnegans Wake was moved to
the park in February 2011.
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Bram Stoker Park
lies across from Fairview Park at Marino
Crescent, Dublin 3. Bram Stoker, author of
Dracula, lived at 15 Marino Crescent. Neil
Jordan’s recent novel Mistaken was set in
Marino Crescent next door to the house
once occupied by Bram Stoker.
Merrion Square Park
boasts many literary connections. Merrion Square
became a fashionable place to live after its
development in the 19th century, attracting a host
of celebrity occupants such as Oscar Wilde, W. B.
Yeats and Jack B. Yeats. Oscar Wilde is immortalised
by a colourful statue which stands alongside one of
his wife, Constance. The park also features leisure
walks, a playground area, a collection of old Dublin
lamp posts, the Rutland Memorial, a central floral
garden and a heather garden.
Mountjoy Square Park
is enclosed by
what was one of
Dublin’s most
fashionable
residential areas, RIVER LIFFEY
Mountjoy Square.
With its fine
Georgian terraces,
the square once
offered commanding
views across the city and
the playwright Sean O’ Casey
used his home at no. 35 as the
setting of his classic drama,
The Shadow of a Gunman. The
square also featured in James
Joyce’s Ulysses and now hosts
a children’s playground and a
range of sporting facilities.
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St. Patrick’s Park
Completed in 1904, St. Patrick’s Park, sits alongside St.
Patrick’s Cathedral on the south side of the city. Jonathan
Swift, Dean of the Cathedral from 1713-1745 and author
of Gulliver’s Travels is one of Dublin’s most famous writers.
In 1988 a Literary Parade was added to the park in honour
of some of Dublin’s greatest writers. Bronze plaques were
erected to Jonathan Swift, James Clarence Mangan, Oscar
Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, John
Millington Synge, Sean O’ Casey, James Joyce, Brendan
Behan and Samuel Beckett.
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Sandymount Green
is situated in the heart of
Sandymount Village and
dates from the early 1800’s
when it was first railed-in
and laid out as a local green.
The Nobel Laureate W.B.
Yeats was born at number 5
Sandymount Avenue and a
bust honouring him has been
erected in the park.