Background
He was born in Dublin, the eldest son of Thomas Kirk. He lived in Jervis Street and studied with his father (along with two brothers and a sister who also became sculptors) and at the Dublin Society"s School.
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Joseph Kirk
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Among his best-known works are the figures of Divinity, Law, Medicine and Science on the campanile in Trinity College, Dublin and a relief at the base of the Wellington Monument. He also executed the figure over his father"s grave in Mount Jerome Cemetery. Like his father he executed a number of unique reliefs for church memorials throughout the country.
He died in 1894 and is interred in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.
Membership
He became master of the RDS modelling school in 1852 and in 1854 he became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
