The Power Family
James Power
Works — 4 May 1918 – 13 April 2009
James Joseph Power was born on 4 May 1918 in Phibsborough, Dublin, the son of Albert George Power RHA. He studied sculpture under Oliver Sheppard and painting under Seán Keating at the National College of Art and Design. The entire family, including several brothers, worked in their celebrated sculpture yard on Berkeley Road, Phibsborough.
His works were included in the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition in 1941 and 1942, and he was a frequent exhibitor at the Oireachtas na Gaeilge. Like his father, he was often called upon to make death masks of significant figures — including that of Brendan Behan in 1964. The 1916 memorial on Sarsfield Bridge in Limerick, completed in 1956, is among his most significant public commissions. He died in Dublin on 13 April 2009, aged 90.
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Confirmed Works
1916 Memorial, Sarsfield Bridge
Bronze · Sarsfield Bridge, Limerick
James Power's most significant public commission — a monument to the 1916 Rising on Sarsfield Bridge, Limerick. Completed in 1956, the commission was first proposed in 1936 by his father Albert. After several delays, James brought it to completion two decades later.
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Matt Talbot Memorial
Bronze · Talbot Memorial Bridge, Dublin
Statue of Matt Talbot (1856–1925), the Dublin labourer and Catholic mystic whose cause for beatification was opened in 1947. The statue stands on Talbot Memorial Bridge, Dublin, close to the site of his workplace.
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Memorial to Erskine Childers
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
Memorial to Erskine Childers (1905–1974), fourth President of Ireland, at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
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Bust of Ned Daly
Bronze · Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
Portrait bust of Edward "Ned" Daly (1891–1916), youngest commandant of the Easter Rising, executed at Kilmainham Gaol aged 25.
Bust of Peadar Kearney
Bronze · Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
Portrait bust of Peadar Kearney (1883–1942), author of Amhrán na bhFiann — the Irish national anthem.
Death Mask of Brendan Behan
Plaster
Made following the death of playwright and poet Brendan Behan (1923–1964) — continuing the family tradition of recording significant Irish cultural figures at the moment of their deaths, which Albert had established with his revolutionary death masks of 1922.
Portrait of John F. Kennedy
Sculpture
Among James Power's portraits of noteable figures was that of US President John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), reflecting his wide range of portrait commissions across political, religious, and cultural subjects.
Portraits of Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Father Eugène O'Growney & others
Sculpture
James Power produced a wide range of portrait subjects including Irish-language writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Irish language revivalist Father Eugène O'Growney, and Irish ascetic Matt Talbot. His frequent exhibition at the Oireachtas na Gaeilge reflects a deep connection to the Irish language movement, shared with his father and the wider DMSA circle of their generation.
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