How could we forget Cashel's replica Sheela-na-Gig? This beauty lives among the memorabilia in Cashel Folk Village, where "Sheela is seen through modern eyes as being ‘defiant’ rather than ‘deviant’." Oh yeah!
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Out in Stepaside golf course there's a stern looking Sheela no Gee on a free-standing stone, like a grave marker. Not a real Sheela but an early christian cross. We think she's gorgeous anyway 😍

Thanks to @dh_age for keeping us right!
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Another art project created beautiful ceramic Sheela na Gigs for #InternationalWomensDay but these Project Sheela ones are collectors items.

We were lucky to find this gorgeous one in the wild in Merrion Square gardens, commemorating Lady Jane Wilde, but it's gone now 😭
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Stoneybatter is *the* place to go for fake Sheela na Gigs. Placed on sites of historic misogyny by a guerrilla art project, these Sheelas are tiny. There's a tucked away one on the wall of Grangegorman (near The Barbers pub) and a more brazen one on the gate of Arbour Hill. There was another one on Collins Barracks but it's disappeared 😕
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It's Fake Sheela Friday! Dublin doesn't have many authentic Sheela na Gigs (apart from in the National Museum) but it's dripping with fake ones. A🧵

A fake Sheela sits on the tower of St Mary's Church in Crumlin, put there by a FÁS scheme in the early 90s apparently. We'd love to know why! We'd also like to see more FÁS courses putting Sheelas on buildings 😍

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