Donal "Dony" MacManus is an Irish sculptor and educator.

MacManus graduated with a degree from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, as well as an Art Teaching Diploma. He worked as a teacher in St. David's, Artane, Dublin. He studied in New York Academy of Art gaining a Masters.^[1] He has a number of sculptures on display in New York and Washington D.C.

MacManus returned to Ireland in 2004 and founded Irish Academy of Figurative Art, in Ranelagh in Dublin.^[2]

In 2011 MacManus co-founded the Sacred Art School,^[3] in Florence, Italy.^[4] He is also a board member of Newman College Ireland.

Works

• The Linesman (1999), Dublin Docklands^[5]
• St Josemaría Escrivá (2000), bronze for the Catholic Information Center, Washington D.C.
• Hobey Baker (2001), cast bronze, St. Paul's School, New Hampshire. U.S.A.
• St Joseph and the Child Jesus (2002), bronze for the Catholic Information Center, Washington D.C.
• Cardinal Newman (2004), Catholic Information Center, Washington D.C.
• St Joseph and the Child Jesus (2007) cast bronze, Tallahassee, Florida.
• The Game Piece, originally on N4, moved to Jail Park, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
• Theology of the Body Sculpture
• Archbishop Fulton Sheen (2016), Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, New York.^[6]
• Bishop William O'Higgins St. Mary's Church, Drumlish, Co. Longford, 2020.