The Onion Seller
The Onion Seller ~ Bronze
Sculptor ~ Séamus Murphy (1907-1975)
This is a monument to the women dealers in the Coal Quay, Cork City Open Market.
It was erected on February 27th 1986 and unveiled on February 28th 1986 by the Lord Mayor, Alderman Dan Wallace TD as a gift to the City of Cork to commemorate Cork 800 by Sunbeam Wolsey PLC.
Séamus Murphy was born at Greenhill, Burnfort, Mallow, Co Cork.
I touched her for luck a month ago 😀
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I didn’t go quite that near, I had to get back in time for the bus to take me to the train station for my return home.
Lovely work of art. You show the best pictures!
I had hoped to gather some more during my couple of days in Dublin, but fate intervened, curtailed my movements and extended my stay.
Simply beautiful.
Some women had very difficult lives back in the day and it is good that their toil is recognised.
Interesting that it’s sponsored by a Micky Dee’s franchise. Here they just put up clown statues in the parking lots. Lovely piece, hard to process culturally as North America is so very different than the “Old Country”. My first impression was one of impoverishment, but then, maybe not – I’d like to visit Ireland, my genetic roots are there. Thanks for posting this Grannymar, you provoke thoughtfulness with your lovely photos. I’m glad to have discovered you. 🙂
Cheers from Western Canada!
Photographing these sculptures are a learning experience for me, They give me an opportunity to research the background to the piece and the sculptor.
Great that they immortalized the onion seller. Looks as if her head and hands are disproportionate to her body… maybe that’s just my perception.
Brighid, perhaps it has something to do with my angle of the shot or my poor photography skills.
Nope, I think it’s the statue, that or my old eyes…
Hello Grannymar
Does she have a nickname like a lot of the Dublin statues do?
Hi Cathy, not being a cork woman, I am unable to answer your question. It may be just a Dublin thing to to give sculptures a nickname
She hasn’t many onions. She couldn’t have made much money out of those. Or maybe she has a little stockpile somewhere in the vicinity?
Nick, she looks tired, maybe that was all she had left unsold at the end of the day.