One of Dublin’s best known sculptures - the naked woman climbing up the Treasury Building - has been removed, though it may re-appear elsewhere. The statue being removed from the Treasury Building in Dublin’s Grand Canal Street Lower. The Treasury Building is on the site of the former Boland’s Bakery, a building that featured during the 1916 Rising, and the climbing figure, Aspiration, was meant to be a metaphor for Ireland. The statue being removed from the Treasury Building in Dublin’s Grand Canal Street Lower. The sale of the Treasury Building is understood to have secured its owners a significant return.

Source: The Irish Times December 04, 2020 21:01 UTC