, Galway. Now in
Galway City Museum Power established his own stone-carving business in 1912 from his new home at 18 Geraldine Street,
Phibsborough. As the firm grew, it moved to premises nearby at 15 Berkeley Street from 1930. Power executed a wide range of works, including monuments and architectural features in bronze, marble, and stone. Among is notable works are the figure of "Science" designed by Sheppard from the façade of the new
Royal College of Science (later Government Buildings) on Merrion Street, Dublin, carved motifs and sphinxes for the
Gresham Hotel, O'Connell Street, and 4 statues on the dome of Christ the King church,
Carndonagh. such as limestone from
Durrow and
Connemara marble. He was noted for his
academic realist style. He exhibited regularly with the
Royal Hibernian Academy from 1906, becoming an associate member in 1911, and a full member in 1919. Among those he modelled sculptures for were
James Stephens (1913),
W. B. Yeats (1918), and
Lord Dunsany (1920). Among his patrons was
Oliver St. John Gogarty, and through Gogarty Power was commissioned to model a number of prominent Irish nationalists. Gogarty asked Power to carve a portrait of
Terence MacSwiney in 1920, while MacSwiney was on hunger-strike in
Brixton prison, London. Smuggled into the prison to do a thumbnail sketch, Power then carved a portrait in the form of a life mask. On Gogarty's recommendation, Power was commissioned by the
Irish Free State governments to create portraits of a number of leading politicians including
Arthur Griffith (1922),
Michael Collins (1936), and
Austin Stack (1939). He was also privately commissioned to execute a portrait of
Éamon de Valera in 1944. Among his monumental works were sculptures of
Tom Kettle (1919) at St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Christ the King in
Gort, Co. Galway, (1933),
Pádraic Ó Conaire (1935) at Eyre Square, Galway, and W. B. Yeats (1939) at Sandymount Green, Dublin. He was one of the artists invited to submit designs for the new coinage of the Irish Free State in 1928. ==Death==