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Dublin - Baile Átha Cliath
Co. Dublin - Contae Átha Cliath O'Connell Bridge, D1/D2 |
Father Pat NoiseFictitious Roman Catholic priest |
artist unknown
2004 |
Commemorative plaque on the balustrade of O'Connell Bridge, placed in 2004 (and after removal a second time in 2007) without permission in a depression left by the removal of the control box for the Millennium Countdown clock. The plaque is a hoax; there has never been a Father Pat Noise.
Two men said they installed it in 2004, and owned up in May 2006 after the plaque was brought to the attention of Dublin City Council by a journalist for the Sunday Tribune. They claimed the work was a tribute to their father, and that the name 'Father Pat Noise' is a word play on pater noster, Latin for 'our father'. The 'HSTI' is also fictitious, and could be an anagram of the word 'shit'. Peadar Clancy (misspelled on the plaque) was a genuine Irish Republican Army officer killed on the evening of Bloody Sunday, 1920. The men did not reveal their exact identities, instead communicating only by anonymous correspondence.
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this plaque commemorates FR. PAT NOISE advisor to peadar clancey. he died under suspicious circumstances when his carriage plunged into the liffey on august 10th 1919. erected by the hsti |
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