Ellie O’Byrne revisits one of county Cork’s strangest phenomena: a statue of the Virgin Mary that, in 1985, drew enormous crowds because witnesses believed they had seen it moving The statue ...

‘I was working on this idea of hesitancy towards a love of someone that you like, and the idea of moving statues in Ireland in the 1980s started making itself known’ The separate art ...

Crawley discovered the head first while moving earth. The sculpture’s bust was discovered only a few weeks later. “I had a real shock as the ... it was a head of a statue.