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In common with many other places throughout the world, Dublin (Ireland) has its fair share of monuments and statuary. Arty, historic, symbolic and decorative these monuments have covered wide and varied topics.
However, no matter how well intentioned (and possibly pompous) the commissioning and erection of the monuments, Dubliners have always been very quick to create a new name for the monument, in many cases poking fun at the subject, object or the city.
In most cases the names have been a play on words utilising rhyming and in several cases the alternative titles are somewhat fitting.
I have listed below as many of the monuments that have thus been treated and provide the original title, the alternative title(s) and a link to a photograph of each.
I would love to hear the alternative names of the monuments that you have in your area. I hope that this brings a laugh to all who read…
Tom.
Molly Malone
The tart with a cart
The Dish with the Fish
Anna Livia
The Hoor in the Sewer
Viagra Falls
The Floozie in the Jacuzzi
Two women resting while shopping with their shopping bags at their feet
The Hags with the Bags
James Joyce
The Prick with the stick
The Hick with the stick
The Spire of Dublin
The Spike in the Dyke,
The North Pole
The Stiletto in the Ghetto
The Stiffey by the Liffey
The Scud in the Mud
The Nail in the Pale
The Metropole
The Spire in the Mire
The Erection at the Intersection
The Bertie Pole
The eyeful tower
The Height of Folly
The Gleaming Tower of Pizza-land
Bertie's Erection
The Pin in the Bin
The syringe in the binge
The poker near Croker
The stilt in the filth
The pole in the hole
The stump in the dump
The opinion pole
The point of Irish neutrality
The millennium Clock
The Time in the Slime
Patrick Kavanagh
The Crank on the Bank
Oscar Wilde
The Fag on the Crag
Queer on the Square (pronounced quare on the square)
Smithfield Chimney
Flue with the View
However, no matter how well intentioned (and possibly pompous) the commissioning and erection of the monuments, Dubliners have always been very quick to create a new name for the monument, in many cases poking fun at the subject, object or the city.
In most cases the names have been a play on words utilising rhyming and in several cases the alternative titles are somewhat fitting.
I have listed below as many of the monuments that have thus been treated and provide the original title, the alternative title(s) and a link to a photograph of each.
I would love to hear the alternative names of the monuments that you have in your area. I hope that this brings a laugh to all who read…
Tom.
Molly Malone
The tart with a cart
The Dish with the Fish
Anna Livia
The Hoor in the Sewer
Viagra Falls
The Floozie in the Jacuzzi
Two women resting while shopping with their shopping bags at their feet
The Hags with the Bags
James Joyce
The Prick with the stick
The Hick with the stick
The Spire of Dublin
The Spike in the Dyke,
The North Pole
The Stiletto in the Ghetto
The Stiffey by the Liffey
The Scud in the Mud
The Nail in the Pale
The Metropole
The Spire in the Mire
The Erection at the Intersection
The Bertie Pole
The eyeful tower
The Height of Folly
The Gleaming Tower of Pizza-land
Bertie's Erection
The Pin in the Bin
The syringe in the binge
The poker near Croker
The stilt in the filth
The pole in the hole
The stump in the dump
The opinion pole
The point of Irish neutrality
The millennium Clock
The Time in the Slime
Patrick Kavanagh
The Crank on the Bank
Oscar Wilde
The Fag on the Crag
Queer on the Square (pronounced quare on the square)
Smithfield Chimney
Flue with the View