open heath surrounding a bandstand, and often frequented by lunching students, workers and shoppers on Dublin's sunnier days. There is also a playground (separated into junior and senior areas) which was refurbished in 2010. The park once featured a statue of King George II on horseback by John van Nost, erected in 1758, until it was blown up in 1937 by Irish Republicans, the day after the coronation of George VI. Other notable features include: the Fusiliers' Arch at the Grafton Street corner which commemorates the Royal Dublin Fusiliers who died in the Second Boer War. a fountain representing the Three Fates inside the Leeson Street gate. The statue was designed by Joseph Wackerle in bronze in 1956. It was a gift from the German people in thanks for Irish help to refugee children following World War II. Up to five hundred children found foster homes in Ireland in a project named Operation Shamrock. a seated statue of Lord Ardilaun on the western side, the man who gave the Green to the city, facing the Royal College of Surgeons which he also sponsored (again, see History above) the Yeats memorial garden with a sculpture by Henry Moore a bust of James Joyce facing his former university at Newman House a memorial to the Fenian leader Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa near the Grafton Street entrance a bronze statue at the Merrion Row corner of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the leader of the 1798 rebellion. a memorial to the Great Famine of 1845–1850 by Edward Delaney a bust of Constance Markievicz on the south of the central garden (see History above) a statue of Robert Emmet standing opposite his birthplace (now demolished) at No 124. a memorial bust of war poet Thomas Kettle, an Irish Parliamentary Party MP and fatality of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The attempt to erect a commemorative portrait bust of Kettle was beset by controversy until it was finally placed, without official unveiling, in the centre section. Architecture Some of the earliest houses still survive on the south and north sides of the Green. These are identifiable by their lower height and narrow fronts, illustrating how plots were subdivided. Later buildings on the east side show a dramatic change in scale, with much larger and grander houses, many by Gustavus Hume. Iveagh House on the south side was created from the joining of two earlier houses (numbers