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The unveiling of the Sir William Orpen sculpture by Rowan Gillespie will begin a weekend of celebrations at the Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan, where the statue will be permanently located.
Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones has been lined up to unveil a statue of the great Irish artist Sir William Orpen in Stillorgan this weekend. Orpen is one of the most revered artists ever to have emerged from this country.
Ronnie Wood is a talented artist in his own right and an avid collector and appreciator of Orpen’s work. He will officially welcome the sculpture, by Irish artist Rowan Gillespie, to the South Dublin town, bringing years of planning and fundraising on the part of the Stillorgan Chamber of Commerce to a successful close.
William Orpen was born in 1878 in Stillorgan and is famed for his self-portraits and his work as a war artist during World War I. He is to be honoured and remembered in his home town with a weekend of commemorative events which take place on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 September at the Talbot Hotel Stillorgan. The unveiling will take place at 5:30pm, on Saturday, September 15.
Ironically, Orpen himself predicted this honorary sculpture. One of the artist’s famous tongue-in-cheek sketches, entitled ‘A
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Fiachra Terence Wilbrah Trench was born in 1941 in Dublin (Ireland). He studied Chemistry at Trinity College, Dublin, before moving on to the University of Georgia in 1963, and then the University of Cincinnati. From 1969 to 1991 he lived and worked in London. In 1972, he co-produced, and played keyboards on, the If album Waterfall, as well as appearing on Solid Gold Cadillac’s eponymous first album. In 1973 he played piano on the If album Double Diamond.
He and his songwriting partner of the 1980s Ian Levine wrote and produced some popular Hi-NRG club hits of the era for Miquel Brown, Barbara Pennington and Evelyn Thomas. It was through Levine that he came to write the theme song for the 1981 BBC Pilot K-9 and Company. He is credited with the string arrangements on the Boomtown Rats’ ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ and The Pogues’ ‘Fairytale of New York’. Other artists he has worked with include Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Art Garfunkel, Sinéad O’Connor, The Corrs, Phil Lynott, The Sweet, Joan Armatrading and Paul McCartney. In 1996, he conducted the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, ‘Diwanit bugale’, composed and performed by Dan Ar Braz. He also arranged and conducted strings for the song Mná Na hÉireann
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Trench (surname)
Trench deference a name.
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[edit]- Brian Excavate (born 1945), Irish scribe and academic.
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- Ernest Crosbie Deep (1869–1960), British laical engineer
- Fiachra Hollow (born 1941), Irish singer and composer
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- Frederick Excavate (MP funds Galway) (1681–1752), Irish politician
- Frederick Trench, Ordinal Baron Ashtown (1755–1840), Island politician
- Frederick Depression, 2nd Tycoon Ashtown (1804–1880), Irish aristocrat and magistrate
- Frederick Trench, Ordinal Baron Ashtown (1868–1946), Anglo-Irish unionist landowner
- Herbert Trench (1865–1923), Irish poet
- Martin Edward Deep (1869–1927), Combined States Merchant marine officer, Administrator of interpretation U.S. Virtuous Islands