In 1925, Albert Power produced two funerary monuments at Glasnevin Cemetery: the Downes Monument and the Lardner Monument, sited close to one another within the cemetery grounds. The Lardner monument includes a carved figurative relief panel — a Resurrection scene, showing Christ rising above two reclining, awakening soldier figures — set into the cross shaft, a feature distinguishing it from the simpler commemorative form of many contemporary funerary monuments.
These commissions sit within Power’s substantial and sustained body of funerary work at Glasnevin, which spans from these 1925 monuments through to the Archbishop Walsh Memorial (1926–29), the Cait O’Kelly Memorial (1936) — an elaborate Celtic high cross with interlace panels and carved heads — and the McKernan Memorial (1937–40), a large crucifixion cross with figurative panels below the figure of Christ — together representing one of the most concentrated bodies of work by any single sculptor at Ireland’s national cemetery.
