Imogen Stuart’s stone sculpture in honour of St Columbanus, is an unexpected, yet apt symbol of European solidarity, writes Brian Fallon
An Irish-made, Irish-commissioned statue to commemorate an Irish saint, standing in the heart of Paris only a stone’s throw from the Pantheon – how unlikely it sounds. Yet this achievement was duly recognised and celebrated when President MacAleese inaugurated Imogen Stuart’s large work in stone entitled The Flame of Human Dignity in the Centre Culturel Irlandais – Irish College on 23 November last
