Former TD Máirín Quill presents Éamon de Valera bust to Cork

Former TD and Senator Máirín Quill has gifted a bust of Éamon de Valera by renowned sculptor Seamus Murphy to the people of Cork.

Lord Mayor Cllr Des Cahill unveiled the bust — between the sculptures of Michael Collins and Tom Barry, also works by Murphy — on the grounds of Fitzgerald’s Park.

Ms Quill said she felt it was fitting during the centenary year of the 1916 Rising to gift it to the city, describing de Valera as a powerful force for the consolidation of Irish democracy.