George Salmon Statue

While George Salmon fought hard to keep women out of Trinity, it’s fitting irony that his daughter served on one of the committees promoting women’s admission, a motion passed only 8 days before his death.
Delicious, delicious irony.
Sculpted by Irish artist and professor John Hughes, and donated to the college by a friend in 1911, I’m guessing it wasn’t the women’s leagues that installed Salmon on the Front Square in Trinity College. Today the late provost leers at ladies and gents alike across the cobbles, balancing out Lecky’s laid back effigy just the other side of the dome.

As a person i am not sure if George Salmon is exactly statue worthy in my book… while some may say that he was the first Provost of Trinity to allow women to receive Degrees… he was also a royal gobeen for denying these same women that right for the majority of his time in the top spot here by vetoing the vote every time!
What a wanker… but i guess that was then and this is now… though if you’d asked me I wouldn’t have given him such a nice seat in Front Square… a nice big white marble work. he is leaning in over the square looking at everyone. cant help but think he is spying on me all the time.
He may have cameras in his eyes… and people say I’m paranoid.