Monument, Sir Edward James Harland, Belfast City Hall, Belfast, Co. Antrim
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[between ca. 1903-1914].
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| Notes: | Research by our Flickr Commons users established that while Edward James Harland is perhaps best known for his shipbuilding activities in Belfast, he was also a politician, and Mayor and later MP for Belfast. This statue was one of several by Thomas Brock on the grounds of Belfast City Hall. Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/43131146170/ Robert French was the chief photographer responsible for photographing three quarters of the Lawrence Collection. For more information, see the Dictionary of Irish Biography: http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a3369 Physical description: 1 negative : glass ; 22 x 17 cm Geographic Coverage: Belfast, County Antrim, Province of Ulster, Ireland. Caption on glassplate reads: Monument Sir. Edward James Harland. BT. M. P. Belfast. 260. W. L. more |
A monument to Sir E. J. Harland in Belfast takes us up north of the border (which is in the news) today, and gives me an opportunity to quote from Maurice Craig's wonderful poem. Harland is a name that is synonymous with Belfast - but I confess to know very little about the bearer of that name, can you enlighten me?
And so I have learned something - including his apparent like of the odd cigar :) While Edward James Harland is perhaps best known for his shipbuilding activities, his Wikipedia article also lists him as a politician. And he was Mayor and later MP for Belfast for a period. This statue was one of several by Thomas Brock on the grounds of Belfast's city hall. Though in a broad catalogue range (1860s-1910s), this image was likely captured within a few years of the statue's unveiling - in mid-1903.....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. After c.1903 (statue)
NLI Ref: L_ROY_00260
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Robert French, William Lawrence, Lawrence Collection, Lawrence Photographic Studio, Glass Negative, National Library of Ireland, Sir E.J. Harland, Belfast, Harland and Wolffe, Ulster, City Hall, Donegall Square, Harland, Edward James Harland, Harland and Wolff, Shipbuilding, Shipbuilder, Thomas Brock, Lawrence Photograph Collection
Comments
sissonni
Wikipedia article The picture of the statue in the article suggests it may have been moved or rotated...?
Posted: 27.09.2018
B-59
Photo by shrighley, 2012
www.flickr.com/photos/shrighley/7113742437/
The statue was unveiled on 23 June 1903
www.titanicmemorials.co.uk/post/memorial/edward+harland+s...
Posted: 27.09.2018
domenico milella
Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
Posted: 27.09.2018
Niall McAuley
I like his whiskers.
Posted: 27.09.2018
Niall McAuley
Per the DIA this is by Sir Thomas Brock, who also did:
also an equestiran statue of Gough in the Park in the archive, as well as a Titianic memorial and a WW1 memorial in belfast.
also an equestiran statue of Gough in the Park in the archive, as well as a Titianic memorial and a WW1 memorial in belfast.Posted: 27.09.2018
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
In 1874 Edward Harland recruited William James Pirrie, a former apprentice at the company as a partner; Pirrie would later become chairman of the company, and was given the task of finding buyers and negotiating deals. Harland was once asked the nature of the three men's business relationship and replied: "Well, Wolff designs the ships, Pirrie sells them and I smoke the firm's cigars."From - www.gracesguide.co.uk/Edward_James_Harland
Posted: 27.09.2018
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Wolff, Wilson, Pirrie, and Harland on the right -
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/shrighley/6982339711/]via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/shrighley/]
Posted: 27.09.2018
Vab2009
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Lol!
Posted: 27.09.2018
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
LOL indeed [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] - that one had to get a mention in the (updated) description :) As well as borrowing heavily from the Wikkpedia article which [https://www.flickr.com/photos/130615039@N05] linked, I've also mapped this image alongside the other Brock statue which [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] reminded us of... Thanks all!
Posted: 27.09.2018
oaktree_brian_1976
A link to his obituary in a San Francisco paper, down at the bottom of the center column. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1895-12-25/ed-...
Posted: 28.09.2018
