Ireland

ABBEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS

November 18, 2022 by infomatique

AS SEEN FROM THE GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE

I refer to it as a work in progress because I do not remember ever seeing it without scaffolding around the spire.

Abbey Presbyterian Church is a church located at Parnell Square, Dublin. Designed by architect Andrew Heiton of Perth, Scotland, it is a decorated Gothic building, with a spire 180 feet (54.9 m) high. The church was erected in 1864.

Over a century and a half this church gone through several name changes: Rutland Square Presbyterian, Abbey Presbyterian, and colloquially as ‘Findlater’s Church’ (after the Dublin merchant who paid for the construction of the building); and through seismic shifts culturally, historically, socially and economically. Indeed the reconstituting and renaming of the congregation came as a direct result of the 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath.

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LARGE HIGH CROSS AND SMALL PARK

November 16, 2022 by infomatique

DOLPHINS BARN IN DUBLIN

This High Cross, which is not very attractive, at Dolphins Barn dates from 1868 and it was originally located in the garden of the priest’s house at St James’s Terrace. It was moved to its present location in 1991 which could be described a a very small park across the road from Our Lady of Dolours Church.

Dolphin’s Barn is an inner city suburb of Dublin situated on the Southside of the city in the Dublin 8, and partially in the Dublin 12, postal district.

The official Jewish cemetery of Dublin is on Aughavannagh Road near Dolphin’s Barn. It was established in 1898 by Robert Bradlaw and the Dolphin’s Barn Jewish Burial Society to replace the Ballybough Cemetery which was nearing capacity. Bradlaw was one of the founders of the St. Kevin’s Parade Synagogue. The cemetery was dedicated to Sir Moses Montefiore.

Unfortunately the GPS tagging is much less precise than usual and I don’t really know why. I did update my iPhone a few days ago so that might be the cause.

MARIAN STATUE AT CEANNT FORT AT MOUNT BROWNE

November 12, 2022 by infomatique

PHOTOGRAPHED NOVEMBER

Because of all the protection it was close to impossible to photograph this religious statue.

This caught me by surprise and I cannot find any details online. I do not have any reason to believe that it is not a Marian Statue and I cannot understand why it is protected by such an ugly, and annoying, perspex case. I do not remember seeing any other Marian Statue protected in such a manner and I have never seen one that has been vandalised in anyway. Maybe it needs protection from the elements as it is in an exposed position but many others are.

In 1953 Pope Pius ordered a Marian year for 1954, the first in Church history. It was called to commemorate the centenary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. The Marian year, which ran from December 1953 to December 1954, was filled with Marian initiatives, in the areas of Mariology, cultural events, and charity and social gatherings.

If you are not from Ireland you may be unaware of ‘Marian Statues’ and if you are younger than 35 or 40 you may also be unaware of them and even if you pass any of them on a daily basis you may not have given them much thought.

There are about 20 or 30 in Dublin alone and most of them are located on public land in what were working class areas back in the 1950s. One or two are located on private property with the statue at Broadstone Station being one example

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GLASNEVIN CEMETERY

November 7, 2022 by infomatique

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Dublin Cemeteries Trust is a registered charity and the largest provider of funeral services in Ireland. The Trust operates five working cemeteries at Dardistown, Glasnevin, Goldenbridge, Newlands Cross and Palmerstown, and a visitor experience and historic archive at Glasnevin, Ireland’s National Cemetery.

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