Works

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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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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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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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

Plaster · 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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