# Mary Redmond

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{{for|the American singer|Mary Ann Redmond}}
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thumb|right|250px|Father Mathew statue
'''Mary Redmond''' (1863 – 16 January 1930) was an [Irish](/source/Ireland) [sculptor](/source/sculptor) born in [Nenagh](/source/Nenagh), [County Tipperary](/source/County_Tipperary), in 1863, and raised in [Ardclough](/source/Ardclough), [County Kildare](/source/County_Kildare), where her father went to work in the limestone quarries.

==Early life==
At school in Ardclough, she modelled the soft clay from a sinkhole near her home into clay figures. At the age of nine she was sent to live in [Dublin](/source/Dublin) to attend primary school. While there, she worked in the studio of Thomas Farrell where she created her first work "a hand on a cushion".<ref name=Ardclough>{{cite web |url=https://ardclough.wordpress.com/about/ardclough-history/ardclough-people-in-history/mary-redmond-1863-1930/ |title=Mary Redmond (1863–1930) |publisher=Ardclough Community Council |accessdate=10 October 2015}}</ref> She was accepted into the [Dublin Metropolitan School of Art](/source/Dublin_Metropolitan_School_of_Art) where she studied drawing and painting, though she was drawn to working with clay.{{fact|date=October 2021}}

==Career==
Her most famous work, a statue of [Father Theobald Mathew](/source/Theobald_Mathew_(temperence_reformer)) in O'Connell Street, Dublin, was inaugurated in 1893 (or 1891 <ref>{{cite book |author=Hill, Judith |title=Irish Public Sculpture |publisher=Four Courts Press |location=Dublin |date=1998 |page=111}}</ref>) (8 February). She won a contest to create the sculpture, an achievement for a woman artist at the time. According to [Nora J Murray](/source/Nora_J_Murray)’s article in ''Capuchin Annual'' (1932), the male model for the statue took the concept of being plastered a little too far, was dismissed for drunkenness and was later convicted for vandalising her work.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Mary Redmond |author=Murray, Nora J |journal=Capuchin Annual |date=1932}}</ref>

==Works==
Among her other works are a bust of [Gladstone](/source/William_Ewart_Gladstone), modelled at his home, [Hawarden Castle](/source/Hawarden_Castle_(18th_century)), a bust of [Edmund Dwyer Gray](/source/Edmund_Dwyer_Gray_(Irish_politician)) (of which 30 repeats were made), a presentation shield to [Lord Wolseley](/source/Garnet_Wolseley%2C_1st_Viscount_Wolseley) and a memorial bust of William Martin.

==Later life and death==
Redmond married Dr W Dunn, from [Florence](/source/Florence), in London in 1893. They moved to [Italy](/source/Italy) and lived near Galileo's Tower in Florence. She died there on 16 January 1930.<ref>''The Irish Independent'', 17 January 1930.</ref>

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Category:People from Nenagh
Category:Artists from County Kildare
Category:20th-century Irish sculptors
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Category:19th-century Irish women artists
Category:20th-century Irish women artists
Category:Expatriates in Italy

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