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''Two Working Men'' ((アイルランド語:Beirt Fhear Oibre)) are a pair of statues made by the Irish sculptor Oisín Kelly. The piece took Kelly three years to create and was unveiled in front of the County Hall in Cork in 1969. As with other works of public art in Ireland, the statues took on a local colloquial name, and are still commonly known as "''Cha and Miah''". ==History== "Two Working Men" became Kelly's second statue on public display, after his acclaimed ''Children of Lir'' was unveiled at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance in 1966. That year, Kelly received a commission for a new statue, to be erected outside Liberty Hall in Dublin, which at the time was Ireland's tallest building and the headquarters of the Services, Industrial, Professional & Technical Union (SIPTU).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SIPTU.ie - Headquarters/address )〕 Before the statues were to be moved outside Liberty Hall however, SIPTU deemed that they would pose a traffic hazard.〔 In 2007 Desmond Rea O'Kelly, architect of Liberty Hall, reflected on this lost opportunity: The work was instead unveiled in front of Cork's new county hall building in 1969, which during the time the statues were being made had unseated Liberty Hall as the tallest building in Ireland.〔 (It would remain the tallest building in Ireland until 2008.) The statues were removed for a period during the redevelopment of the County Hall, but were replaced in 2006.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Two Working Men」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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