The Echo Boy
The Echo Boy ~ Bronze
Sculptor ~ Barry Moloney
This memorial is for the Echo Boys.
Poor and often homeless children who sold the newspaper The Evening Echo & on the streets in Cork City.
Evening Echo newspapers for sale
Barry Moloney (1935 – 1992) was principal of the Crawford School of Art. Unfortunately, I had little success in finding information about Barry Moloney.
Plaque on the wall behind the Echo Boy.
“The Echo Boy”
Commemorating
150 years of
The Cork Examiner
And 100 years of the
Evening Echo
The sculpture was
Unveiled 8 December 1991 by
Councillor Denis (Dino) Cregan
Lord Mayor of Cork
Barry Moloney
Sculptor
Relocated from Cook Street to
Saint Patrick’s Street 2004
Grannymar 