Submarine inventor honoured with sculpture made from recycled plane parts

Submarine inventor honoured with sculpture made from recycled plane parts
Submarinocurraplane by Shane Holland will be featured at Art Source in Dublin (Fintan Clarke Photography/PA)

A descendant of the Irish-born inventor of the modern-day submarine has created a sculpture in his honour, made from recycled airliner parts.

John Phillip Holland, who grew up in Co Clare before emigrating to the United States, developed the first modern submarine in the 1870s – a design that was formally commissioned by the US Navy.

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