Thomas Kirk (sculptor)

Born in Cork, Kirk studied at the Dublin Society's School where he won prizes in 1797 and 1800.

He later worked for Henry Darley, a skillful builder and stone-cutter from County Meath, based in Abbey Street, Dublin.

His favourite relief was one of the Good Samaritan, which was well suited for memorials to either doctors or clergymen.

[2] Another of Kirk’s commissions was the statue, in Limerick, of Thomas Spring Rice, a former MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Commissioned in 1818 it was displayed at the Society of Artists in Hawkins Street in 1819 alongside a bust of her husband by John Smyth.