Catalogue

Works

Public sculpture, portrait busts, and ecclesiastical commissions

Bronze seated figure of Pádraic Ó Conaire, Eyre Square, Galway
1935

Pádraic Ó Conaire

Bronze · Eyre Square, Galway

Power’s most celebrated public commission and the work by which he is most widely known. The seated figure of the Connacht writer Pádraic Ó Conaire was unvei...

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Death mask of Michael Collins by Albert G. Power, 1922
1922

Death Mask of Michael Collins

Plaster · National Museum of Ireland — Collins Barracks, Dublin

On 22 August 1922, Michael Collins was killed at Béal na Bláth, County Cork. He was thirty-one years old. Within hours of his body being brought to Dublin, A...

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Death mask of Arthur Griffith by Albert G. Power, August 1922
1922

Death Mask of Arthur Griffith

Plaster · National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

Arthur Griffith, founder of Sinn Féin and first President of Dáil Éireann, died on 12 August 1922 — just ten days before Michael Collins — of a cerebral haem...

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Death mask of Cathal Brugha by Albert G. Power, April 1922
1922

Death Mask of Cathal Brugha

Plaster · Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin

Cathal Brugha — born Charles William St John Burgess — was one of the most uncompromising figures of the Irish independence movement. Chief of Staff of the I...

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1922

Death Mask of Erskine Childers (Unconfirmed)

Plaster (claimed) · Private collection / family archive

Robert Erskine Childers — author, sailor, and passionate Irish republican — was executed by firing squad on 24 November 1922, at Beggars Bush Barracks, Dubli...

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Life mask of Terence MacSwiney by Albert G. Power, October 1920
1920

Life Mask of Terence MacSwiney

Plaster · National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork and playwright, died on 25 October 1920 after seventy-four days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, London. His death c...

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Bronze portrait bust of Michael Collins by Albert G. Power, 1936
1936

Portrait Bust of Michael Collins

Bronze · National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Made fourteen years after Collins’s death, and fourteen years after Power had pressed plaster to his face to make the death mask, this bronze portrait bust r...

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Portrait bust of Countess Markievicz by Albert G. Power, 1932
1932

Portrait Bust of Countess Markievicz

Bronze · National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

Constance Markievicz — revolutionary, politician, and the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament — died in 1927. Power made this portrait bust fiv...

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1940

Portrait of Seán Mac Diarmada

Bronze · National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Seán Mac Diarmada (1883–1916) was one of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation and a key organiser of the Irish Volunteers. He was executed by firin...

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1936

Icarus

Marble · National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Icarus is one of Power’s rare purely mythological works — a departure from his predominant focus on portraiture and religious sculpture. Carved in marble in ...

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Portrait bust of W.B. Yeats by Albert G. Power, 1939
1939

Portrait Bust of W.B. Yeats

Bronze · Various — multiple casts

William Butler Yeats died in January 1939 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. Power made this portrait bust in the year of his death, producing one of the defi...

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Portrait of Grace Gifford Plunkett by Albert G. Power
c. 1920s

Portrait of Grace Gifford Plunkett

Bronze · National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

Grace Gifford married Joseph Mary Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol on the night before his execution on 4 May 1916 — one of the most extraordinary and heartbreaki...

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1942

Leenane Connemara Trout

Marble · National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Carved in 1942, Leenane Connemara Trout is one of Power’s most distinctive works — a naturalistic animal study in marble that sits apart from the commemorati...

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1944

Portrait of Éamon de Valera

Plaster (bronze cast also made) · Private collection

In 1944, Power was commissioned by John L. Burke — solicitor, art collector, and close friend of Éamon de Valera — to make a portrait of the Taoiseach and Pr...

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Gresham Hotel decorative facade by Albert G. Power, 1926
1926

Gresham Hotel Decorative Facade

Stone carving · Gresham Hotel, O'Connell Street, Dublin

The Gresham Hotel commission of 1926 represents one of the most ambitious and publicly visible architectural sculpture projects of Power’s career. Tasked wit...

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Figure of Science, Government Buildings Dublin, Albert G. Power 1911
1911

Figure of Science

Stone · Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin

Among the earliest of Power’s major public commissions, the Figure of Science was carved for the College of Science on Merrion Street — the building that wou...

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late 1920s

Statue of St Joseph and Christ Child (Foxford)

Marble · Convent of Divine Providence, Foxford, Co. Mayo

An early devotional work in marble, this grouping of St Joseph and the Christ Child was made for the Convent of Divine Providence in Foxford, Co. Mayo — like...

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1932–1933

Christ the King

Marble · Market Square, Gort, Co. Galway

A life-size marble figure of Christ the King, erected in Market Square, Gort, Co. Galway, in the early 1930s. The statue was commissioned for a prominent pos...

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Bronze bust of Archbishop Daniel Mannix by Albert Power, 1921
1921

Bust of Archbishop Daniel Mannix

Bronze · Melbourne, Australia

Albert Power’s bust of Archbishop Daniel Mannix (1864–1963), the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne and one of the most controversial Catholic churchmen of h...

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Albert Power modelling a wolfhound for the Liam Lynch Monument, 1935, with sculptor Denis Doyle
1935

Liam Lynch Monument — Bronze Wolfhounds

Bronze · Knockmealdown Mountains, Newcastle, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

In 1935, Albert Power collaborated with the sculptor Denis Doyle on four bronze wolfhounds for the monument to Liam Lynch (1893–1923), Chief of Staff of the ...

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Wynn's Hotel, Dublin, decorative capitals and pilasters by Albert Power, 1925
1925

Wynn's Hotel

Stone · Lower Abbey Street, Dublin

In 1925, Albert Power produced decorative carving for Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin — work on the capitals and pilasters of the building’s façade. Wynn’s Hotel, on Lo...

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Downes Monument, Glasnevin Cemetery, by Albert Power, 1925
1925

Downes & Lardner Monuments, Glasnevin

Stone · Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

In 1925, Albert Power produced two funerary monuments at Glasnevin Cemetery: the Downes Monument and the Lardner Monument, sited close to one another within ...

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National Concert Hall facade, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, 1914, with carved heads by Albert Power
1914

National Concert Hall — Facade Heads

Stone · Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin

In 1914, Albert Power carved a series of fourteen heads of notable figures on the upper facade of the building now known as the National Concert Hall, Earlsf...

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Hibernian Bank, O'Connell Street, decorative stonework by Albert Power, 1921 — set of deeply carved heads and keystone
1921

Hibernian Bank, O'Connell Street

Stone · O'Connell Street, Dublin

In 1921, Albert Power produced decorative stone carving for the Hibernian Bank on O’Connell Street, Dublin — the building is still standing and now occupied ...

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Cait O'Kelly Memorial, Glasnevin Cemetery, an elaborate Celtic high cross by Albert Power, 1936
1936

Cait O'Kelly Memorial, Glasnevin

Stone · Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

The Cait O’Kelly Memorial (1936) at Glasnevin Cemetery is among the most elaborate of Power’s funerary commissions — a Celtic high cross carved with dense in...

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McKernan Memorial, Glasnevin Cemetery, a monumental crucifixion cross by Albert Power, 1937-40
1937–40

McKernan Memorial, Glasnevin

Stone · Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

The McKernan Memorial (1937–40) is one of the largest and most ambitious of Power’s works at Glasnevin Cemetery — a tall crucifixion cross bearing a full fig...

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Legion of Mary memorial, Glasnevin Cemetery, with a carved dove and relief of the Virgin Mary, by Albert Power
1930s–40s

Legion of Mary Memorial, Glasnevin

Stone · Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

This memorial at Glasnevin Cemetery commemorates the Legion of Mary — the Catholic lay apostolic movement founded in Dublin in 1921 — and bears the Latin ins...

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This catalogue is in active development. Works are being added as documentation is verified. If you have knowledge of unrecorded works by Albert G. Power, please get in touch.