PAINT-A-BOX STREET ART ON MILLTOWN ROAD
Peacock by Conor Fitzpatrick on Milltown Road near the Nine Arches Bridge and across the road from the famous Dropping Well Pub.
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RICHMOND HILL RATHMINES
Dora Sigerson Shorter, poet, spent some of her childhood at Richmond Hill and Annie M. P. Smithson, novelist, nurse and Nationalist, lived at 12 Richmond Hill until her death.
Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter (16 August 1866 – 6 January 1918) was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.
She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester Varian, also a writer. She was the oldest of 4 children. The family home at 3 Clare Street was a gathering-place for artists and writers where Dora met important figures of the emerging Irish literary revival. She attended the Dublin School of Art, where W.B. Yeats was a fellow-pupil. She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many collections of poetry from 1893. Her sister Hester Sigerson Piatt was also a writer. Her friends included Katharine Tynan, Rose Kavanagh and Alice Furlong, writers and poets.
In 1895 she married Clement King Shorter, an English journalist and literary critic. They lived together in London, until her death at age 51 from undisclosed causes. Her friend Katharine Tynan wrote in a biographical sketch that she supposedly ‘died of a broken heart’ after the 1916 executions.
Annie Mary Patricia Smithson (26 September 1873 – 21 February 1948) was an Irish novelist, poet and Nationalist.
Smithson was born into a Protestant family in Sandymount, Dublin. She was christened Margaret Anne Jane, but took the names Anne Mary Patricia on her conversion to Catholicism. Her mother and father were first cousins and her father died when she was young. About 1881 her mother married her second husband, Peter Longshaw, who owned a chemical factory in Warrington in Lancashire. Smithson disliked her stepfather and referred to him always as Mr Longshaw. There were five children of the second marriage.
Smithson abandoned her ambition to become a journalist in order to train as a nurse and a midwife. She trained in London and Edinburgh, before returning to Dublin in 1900. In 1901 she took up a post as district nurse in Millton, Co. Down. There she fell in love with her colleague Dr James Manton, a married man. Deciding that a relationship was impossible, she left Millton in 1906. They kept up a correspondence until her conversion, when she burnt his letters.
She converted to Catholicism in March 1907 and became a fervent Republican and Nationalist. She became a member of Cumann na mBan and campaigned for Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election.
She took the Republican side in the Irish Civil War and nursed participants in the siege at Moran’s Hotel. In 1922 she was imprisoned by Free State forces and was rescued from Mullingar prison by Linda Kearns McWhinney and Muriel MacSwiney, posing as a Red Cross delegation. Her political views led to her resignation from the Queen’s Nurses Committee and a move into private nursing. In 1924 she wrote a series of articles on child welfare work for the Evening Mail newspaper, based on her work in tenements in the Dublin Liberties, one of the poorest areas of the city, where she continued to work until 1929.
She was Secretary and Organiser of the Irish Nurses Organisation from 1929 to 1942. She wrote for the Irish Nurses’ Magazine and edited the Irish Nurses Union Gazette.
In 1917 she published her first novel, Her Irish Heritage, which became a best-seller. It was dedicated to those who died in the Easter Rising of 1916. In all, she published twenty novels and two short story collections. Other successful novels included By Strange Paths and The Walk of a Queen. Many of her works are highly romantic and draw on her own life experiences, with nationalism and Catholicism featuring as recurrent themes. In 1944 she published her autobiography, Myself – and Others.
From 1932 onwards she shared a house in Rathmines, Dublin with her stepsister and her stepsister’s family. She died of heart failure at 12 Richmond Hill, Dublin and was buried in Whitechurch, County Dublin.
Her novels feature in Brian Friel’s 1990 play Dancing at Lughnasa. Between 1989 and 1990 the Mercier Press reprinted several of her works.
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PHOTOGRAPHED 26 MARCH 2023
This was an excellent location for street art and murals but the quality and selection is not as good as it was.
I have seen this lane described as being a legal location for street art and it is implied that it is legal because property owners have given consent. However, my understanding is that property owners cannot give consent without planning permission.
https://www.legal-walls.net/country/ireland
https://www.garda.ie/en/crime/criminal-damage/property-crime-graffiti-pdf.pdf
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dublin-needs-to-catch-up-and-allow-street-art-1427964.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/18/dublin-city-council-takes-street-artists-to-court-over-murals-sir-david-attenborough
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THE CRECHE CLOSED IN AUGUST 2017
This photograph was taken in July 2020 and not long after the building became a Covid test centre and the walls were painted white.
I first photographed this building in 2012 after it been dramatically transformed into an eye-opening colour jigsaw puzzle. St Marys creche was transformed by the Dulux team for the Let’s Colour project.
St Mary’s Early Years Education and Care Service operated a community crèche at City Quay closed in August 2017 to facility remedial works in the building featured in my photograph. This resulted in 50 families looking for alternative childcare.
St Marys Creche and Pre-School, located on the City Quay in Dublin, has been dramatically transformed into an eye-opening colour jigsaw puzzle. St Marys creche was transformed by the Dulux team for the Let’s Colour project. Located in Dublin city centre, it has already become an iconic building in the city and the children were delighted with the colourful transformation made to their pre-school.
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I DECIDED TO CLOSE THE DOOR
The artwork has changed since my last visit. When I last photographed it featured a portrait of Oscar Wilde and the famous quote “I Have Nothing To Declare But My Genius”. Between 2016 and 2018 it featured a portrait of Oscar Wilde done in the style of an old tarot card and it featured the the depiction of one of Wilde’d most famous quotes “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.” Showing the gutter under Wilde’s chair and the stars above his head.
The current artwork is On The Street by Carolina Medina a Chilean artist and a graduate of DID graphic design.
With the door open the electronics and paperwork was exposed to the elements and other problems so I decided to close the door but there was no way for me to lock it.