Also sculpted by John Henry
Foley, the Statue of the Third Earl of Rosse was unveiled in 1876
by Mary Rosse, widow of the Earl who died in 1867.John Henry Foley was a sculptor, born in Dublin. He went to London in 1834, and executed many statues of public figures, including that of Prince Albert for the Albert Memorial. Other major commissions were statues of Edmund Burke and Goldsmith at Trinity College, Dublin, and Henry Grattan on College Green, Dublin. He also designed for the O'Connell Monument in Dublin.
Built to commemorate the "Liberator" Daniel O'Connell
(1775-1847) after whom the street was renamed after independence.
The O'Connell monument was erected after a subscription list was
opened in 1862. Two years later a competition was announced but
none of the entries met with the approval of the committee. After
a second failure through competition, it was decided to ask John
Henry Foley (1818-74), the leading sculptor of the day and who
was then working on the Albert Memorial in London. He died before
it was completed and his assistant finished the work. The
monument is in three parts, surmounted by the figure of
O'Connell. The base is heavy limestone with four winged figures
representing Patriotism, Fidelity, Courage and Eloquence. Above
this is a drum surrounded by figures representing O'Connell's
labours and triumphs.
Also sculpted by John Henry
Foley, the Statue of the Third Earl of Rosse was unveiled in 1876
by Mary Rosse, widow of the Earl who died in 1867.
Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida from 1995 onwards. The son of Edward and Fran Foley, Congressman Foley was born September 8, 1954, in Newton, Massachusetts. He moved to Florida at the age of three and has lived in the West Palm Beach area ever since. He attended Palm Beach Community College from 1973 - 1975. Prior to his public service, 20-year-old Foley and his mother launched a small family restaurant in Lake Worth. He later started a catering business and began an independent real estate business. At 23, he was appointed to the Lake Worth City Commission and served as Vice Mayor from 1983-84. In 1990, Mark was elected to the Florida House of Representatives and, in 1992, to the State Senate.
He left the state Senate in 1994 to run for a seat in the U.S. Congress. Foley won the election to represent Florida’s 16th Congressional District, which is an area in south Florida surrounding Lake Okeechobee, with 58 percent of the vote. He was returned to office in subsequent elections.
"MARGARET FOLEY was a member of the New England School of Design, and gave instruction in drawing and painting. She resided in Lowell, and was frequently applied to for her cameos, which she cut beautifully."
American Biographical LibraryProfessional wrestler, born Michael Foley, on June 7, 1965, in Bloomington, Indiana. The Foley family moved to Setauket on Long Island when Mick was still a young boy. In high school, he became a dedicated fan of professional wrestling and its incredible antics. He even made a home video of himself performing various stunts in the outlandish persona of “Dude Love.” Foley caught the attention of trainer Dominic DeNucci and began training with him in 1983. Since he made his professional debut in 1986, Foley’s apparent worship of physical pain has allowed him to fulfill his lifelong dream and become one of the most popular wrestlers in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). The six foot two, nearly 300 pound Foley has three alter egos—Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and Mankind—and has participated in several of the notoriously sensational WWF’s more extreme spectacles. In 1999, Foley fought a brutal match with a separated shoulder; that same year he was body slammed fifteen feet from the top of a cage onto a bed of thumbtacks. Incidents like these have contributed to the negative image of pro-wrestling as needlessly violent and ultimately dangerous to the competitors—an image tragically reinforced by the death in May 1999 of the WWF’s Owen Hart in a fall from the rafters of a Kansas City arena. Foley starred in the 1999 documentary film Beyond the Mat, about the world of professional wrestling. In December 1999, his newly-released autobiography, Have a Nice Day!, reached the top of the New York Times non-fiction best-seller list. He and his wife Collette have two children, Dewey and Noelle.
U.S. representative; born in Spokane, Wash. A lawyer in Spokane, Foley was 35 when he defeated the Republican incumbent and entered congress in 1965. A Democratic reformer, he became chairman of the Agriculture Committee in 1974, party whip in 1980, and majority leader in 1986. Although a skilled party strategist, he did not always vote the Democratic party line and his preference for consensus cost him support on key bills. He served as Speaker of the House (1989--95).
The Foley Monument dates from 1735, and is one of the tallest funerary monuments in England. It is located at Witley Parish Church, Great Witley, Worcestershire. The Monument was designed and carved by Michael Rysbrack, who was born in Antwerp in 1694. It depicts the first Lord Foley and his wife with five of their children
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