Croppies Memorial Park - Anna Livia Plurabelle

Croppies Memorial Park - Anna Livia Plurabelle, originally uploaded by infomatique.

Today i got a chance to photograph the "Floozie in the Jacuzzi" but in my opinion the setting is not right. The statue looks wrong because her back is not supported as it would be in a bathtub. See the original setting to see what I mean:

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I should say that the park itself is a very nice place to visit especially on a sunny day like today.

Designed by the sculptor Eamonn O'Doherty this bronze monument was originally located on O'Connell Street at the the very centre of Dublin city.

The monument was removed from its site on O'Connell Street in 2001 to make room for the Spire of Dublin. In late February 2011, partly reworked and refurbished, the statue was relocated to the Croppies Memorial Park next to the Liffey near Heuston station. Some guides indicate that it is located in the memorial park in front of Collins Barracks known as the "Croppy Acre" but you will not find it there because it is located in front of the Ashling hotel.

The monument is a personification of the River Liffey which runs through the city of Dublin. Anna Livia Plurabelle is the name of a character in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake who also embodies the river. The river was (this is not true of the new location) represented as a young woman sitting on a slope with water flowing past her. She is familiarly known by the people of Dublin as the Floozie in the Jacuzzi, or the Whore in the Sewer (pronounced hoo-er to rhyme with sewer).