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Nothing beats a romantic walk in a graveyard In honour of the upcoming St Valentine’s Day,…
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This gallery contains 10 photos.
Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
Nothing beats a romantic walk in a graveyard In honour of the upcoming St Valentine’s Day,…
08 Sunday Feb 2015
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References of East Cork Gaelic Poets and Scholars, Dáibhidh Brudair (Broderick) (1625-1698), Dáithi De Barra (Barry/Dáth a’Ghleanna 1758-1857), Dr McKenna Compiler of Irish Dictionary and Bishop of Cloyne, 1769.
Courtesy JCHAS 1946.
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Lord Bantry’s Cottage, Glengariff, West Cork, from 1760s.
The Whites were probably of a fairly modest background from Co. Limerick. By astute management and investment in fishing, smelting, and forest removal a large land bank was assembled by Richard White then of Whiddy island. On assistance relative to the abortive French landing in 1796 the family were enobled.
Courtesy Archiseek.
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Anthony Malone (1700-1776), Brilliant Irish 18th Century lawyer, Removal as Chancellor of Exchequer for asserting Independence of Irish House of Commons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Malone
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1832, Four Courts, Dublin , showing River Taxis, before destruction of 1922 and later suggestion that complex be turned into a surface car park together with ruined Custom House.
It shows the integrity of the entire complex. were it not for Mr. Byrne, the Chief Architect of OPW, in the 1920s the then Government may have acceded to the demand of some of its backers to clear the entire complex as a Monument to British Imperialism and turn it into a surface car park as was suggested for the Custom House.
The replacement of the wing to the left in turn in the 1980s was replaced by the hideous Arus Uí Dhalaigh (called after former President). Perhaps if the State Coffers gush again this might be demolished and the original building reinstated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Courts
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From Dublin Penny Journal 1832.
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An historic postcard of the magnificent Christchurch Cathedral.
‘Hell’ was a rather infamous part of Dublin in the eighteenth century,renowned for its drinking culture and taverns, as well as a strange wooden statue of the devil. I first came across ‘Hell’ in the pages of the classic Me Jewel And Darlin’ Dublin, in which it was noted by Éamonn Mac Thomáis that:
‘Hell’ was the site just beyond Christ Church Yard near St. Michael’s Hill. It was a small area of taverns and bed-and-breakfast establishments in the Monto style. Robert Burns, the poet, wrote a few verses about Dublin’s Hell.
He also claimed that the reputation of the area was so bad that “The Provost of Trinity College Dublin told the students on more than one ocasion that ‘Dublin’s Hell’ was out-of-bounds and that he would expel anyone found there at night-time.”
Frank Hopkins writes of the area in his
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Glengariff, West Cork, 1832, from Dublin Penny Journal.
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No wrong to be done to seven classes of person excited to anger, a Bard, a Commander, a Woman, a Prisoner, a Commander, a Drunken person, a Druid, a King in his own Dominance from the Book of Ballymote, 1390.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Ballymote
From the Dublin penny Journal 1832.