THE 2016 PHOTO BLOG

MORE EXAMPLES OF DUBLIN STREET ART

January 27, 2024 by infomatique

POINT VILLAGE IN DUBLIN DOCKLANDS 2016

It is fairly obvious that Harrys Bar artwork is commercial the other example was within a nearby construction site that has yet to be fully developed [January 2023] … I think that it is now known as the Waterfront Project.

THE TALKING HEADS ON ABBEY STREET HAVE DISAPPEARED

January 27, 2024 by infomatique

THREE PIECE SCULPTURE BY CAROLYN MULHOLLAND

Many years ago I suggested that this public art installation was not in a suitable location and that I was fairly certain that the majority of people walked by without seeing it. Any, a few weeks ago I noticed that the installation had been removed but note that Irish National Plaque was still on the wall.

It took me a long time to find any information relating to these three heads located on Lower Abbey Street. In 2015 or 2016 I discovered that the art installation is known as “Talking Heads” and the artist is Carolyn Mulholland. On the wall beside the Talking Heads is a plaque which states that the unveiling of the national flag took place in the music hall at this location on Lower Abbey street on 15th April 1858.

Many years ago I suggested that this public art installation was not in a suitable location and that I was fairly certain that the majority of people walk by without seeing it.

Born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh in 1944, Carolyn Mulholland studied at the Belfast College of Art.

She has completed major sculptural commissions for institutions across Ireland and Northern Ireland, including St. MacNissi’s Church, Magherahoney, Co. Antrim (1966); the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (1975); the Church of the Resurrection, Cavehill, Belfast (1982); New Ireland Assurance, Dublin (1986); Dublin Sculpture Symposium (1988); Jefferson Smurfit Group, Dublin (1989); and Irish Life, Dublin (1992).

Her 1996 portrait of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty is on display at the Chester Beatty Library, and her portrait of President Mary McAleese for the Office of Public Works was completed in 2003. She has held solo exhibitions at Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin (1995) and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in Brussels (1996). In 2000, she held a shared show with Basil Blackshaw at the Pepper Canister Gallery, Dublin.

Works include a lifesize bronze sculpture for the famine memorial graveyard in Clones, Co. Monaghan (1998); Group, a private commission of three eight-foot-tall bronze figures (2002); and Man with Kite, a large bronze panel for the new Customs House in Dublin (2003). She won the Irish-American Cultural Institute’s O’Malley Award in 1992.

GERMAN, DUTCH AND BRITISH WAR SHIPS A516 M863 M110

January 27, 2024 by infomatique

NATO SHIPS VISIT DUBLIN IN 2016

Donau (A516) is the sixth ship of the Elbe-class replenishment ships of the German Navy.

The Elbe-class replenishment ships are also known tenders of the German Navy. In German, this type of ship is called Versorgungsschiffe which can be translated as “supply ship” though the official translation in English is “replenishment ship”.

They are intended to support German naval units away from their home ports. The ships carry fuel, provisions, ammunition and other matériel and also provide medical services. The ships are named after German rivers where German parliaments were placed.

Donau was launched in March 1994 in Bremen-Vegesack, Germany. She was commissioned on 15 November 1994. On 11 January 2020, Donau under the command of Captain Bernd Abshagen left her home port of Warnemünde to join the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG1).

HMS Ramsey (M110) was a Sandown-class minehunter of the British Royal Navy. Like other vessels of the Sandown class, Ramsey was built of glass-reinforced plastic and other non-magnetic materials so that her hull does not trigger naval mines as easily as standard warships. Ramsey and Blyth were decommissioned in joint ceremony at Rosyth on 4 August 2021. The Royal Navy announced in 2021 that following a refit by Babcock she will be transferred to the Ukrainian Navy, but later reports suggest she will go to the Romanian Navy.

Vessel HNLMS Vlaardingen (M863) NATO WARSHIP is a military ops ship sailing under the flag of Netherlands.

THE CROPPIES’ ACRE MEMORIAL GARDEN FEATURING A NUMBER OF MEMORIALS

January 25, 2024 by infomatique

PHOTOGRAPHED NOT LONG AFTER THE PARK RE-OPENED

The Croppies’ Acre, officially the Croppies Acre Memorial Garden, is a public park in Dublin, Ireland. It contains a memorial to the dead of the 1798 Rebellion.

The Croppies Memorial Park, closer the Heuston Railway Station, is a different entity.

Note: The naming is somewhat confusing and differs from account to account.

The site, located on the north bank of the River Liffey to the south of Collins Barracks (formerly the Royal Barracks) is traditionally believed to have been used as a mass grave for Irish rebel casualties of the 1798 Rebellion; they were known as Croppies due to their short-cropped hair. It was also called Croppies’ Hole at the time. Some rebels’ bodies were also exhibited at the Croppies’ Hole, tied to pikes.

The National Graves Association maintains that it was also used after 1798 to bury veterans of the conflict, including Matthew Tone, brother of Wolfe Tone. Bartholomew Teeling was also supposedly buried at Croppies’ Acre after being hanged at Provost Prison, Arbour Hill. However, archaeological investigations have failed to find any human remains and its status as a grave is uncertain.

The precise site of the burials was long disputed, all being known was that the dead had been buried on marshy ground near the Royal Barracks. Other reports mentioned that the corpses of the executed were thrown into the Liffey as a public deterrent; the river being tidal at this point. In addition, the River Liffey was realigned in this area to extend the city’s quays. The supposed “Croppies’ Acre” was for a long time a soldiers’ playing field.

The Memorial Park was designed and laid out in 1998.

It was closed in 2012 by the Office of Public Works due to anti-social behaviour, including drunkenness and the use of hard drugs. Ownership was transferred to Dublin City Council and the Croppies’ Acre was reopened in 2016 and that is when these photographs were taken.

JAMESON CASKMATES THE NEW CONCEPT

January 25, 2024 by infomatique

COMMERCIAL STREET ART ON CHANCERY STREET

Back in 2014 I attended the launch and in 2016 I began to notice advertising in the form of Street Art such as that in this photograph taken on Chancery Street.

The Jameson Caskmates release is a unique whiskey that has been made with the help of Cork’s Franciscan Well brewery. Barrels that had been previously used for Jameson whiskey were taken to the Franciscan Well Brewery to use in the ageing of their full-bodied craft stout. Once used for beer maturation they were sent back to the distillery where Jameson whiskey that had already been aged was filled into them for a finishing period.

Background Story: When the Jameson Master Distiller met the Master Brewer from Franciscan Wells for a drink, a plan was hatched to send a few Jameson casks to their brewery down the road for them to age their craft Irish stout. The time came for the casks to return home and our Master Distiller saw an opportunity which piqued his curiosity. He re-filled the stout-seasoned barrels with Jameson Whiskey, and Jameson Caskmates emerged; a whiskey that retains all the triple distilled smoothness of Jameson Original, with a truly unique finish. The subtle suggestion of hops, cocoa and coffee are signposts that it has bumped shoulders with stout; however, Caskmates is undeniably a member of the Jameson family.”