Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:50:20 +0200Havel was a hero who didn’t disappoint, says Art for Amnesty’s Bill Shipseyhttps://english.radio.cz/havel-was-a-hero-who-didnt-disappoint-says-art-amnestys-bill-shipsey-8257027© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalThis Thursday a bust of Václav Havel will be unveiled at Ireland’s Dáil (Parliament), making him the first non-Irishman to be recognised in this way. The man behind the move is barrister Bill Shipsey. The founder of Art for Amnesty, he also raised funding for a tapestry in the late Czech president’s honour at the then freshly renamed Václav Havel Airport Prague and brought the first Havel’s Place memorial in Europe to Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Park.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/nafisi_shipsey.jpg?timestamp=1590687806 Havel was a hero who didn’t disappoint, says Art for Amnesty’s Bill Shipsey https://english.radio.cz/havel-was-a-hero-who-didnt-disappoint-says-art-amnestys-bill-shipsey-8257027 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9