URBAN EXPRESSION AND DEPRESSION
Street Photography That Highlights Urban Life
WHOLE ORANGE COW AT LIDDY STREET – SARSFIELD STREET LIMERICK
I am not 100% sure if the restaurant is named the “Living Cafe” or “Hook And Ladder” but it is not really important as it was the orange cow that I liked. I have yet to visit the restaurant.
I do know that “Hook And Ladder” did, in the past, organise “whole cow” cooking courses.
PENCIL BOLLARDS ALONG ST. MARY’S PLACE NORTH AT THE BLACK CHURCH
As already mentioned the Pencil Bollards are popping up faster than I can photograph them.
As a matter of interest the School Zone Pencil Bollards are provided by Shergan Traffic Solutions based in Mullingar Co Westmeath.
www.shergansolutions.com/about-us
ST. MARY’S CHAPEL OF EASE LOCALLY KNOWN AS THE BLACK CHURCH
Local lore says that you will summon the devil if you run around the church anticlockwise three times at midnight. I ofter wonder if anyone has ever run around the church in order to meet the devil.
St Mary’s Chapel of Ease, also known as “The Black Church”, is a former chapel in Dublin, Ireland. Now deconsecrated, it was a church of the Church of Ireland located on St Mary’s Place, Broadstone, Dublin. It is constructed from local calp limestone which takes on a dark hue when wet. This is the origin of the building’s nickname. A chapel of ease is a church building, other than a parish church, that is located within the bounds of a parish for the convenience of those who cannot conveniently reach the main church. The parish’s main church, now also deconsecrated, was St Mary’s on Mary Street.
AND YET MORE SHERGAN SCHOOL ZONE PENCIL BOLLARDS – SYNGE STREET
The Pencil Bollards are popping up faster than I can photograph them.
As a matter of interest the School Zone Pencil Bollards are provided by Shergan Traffic Solutions based in Mullingar Co Westmeath.
www.shergansolutions.com/about-us
Synge Street is located in what once was the Jewish quarter of Dublin a part of the city steeped in history. It is claimed by some historians that the street was named after the Church of Ireland Bishop Edward Synge of Elphin who owned property in the area at the time of his death in 1762. The Bishop was a great-great-great granduncle of John Millington Synge, the famous Playboy of the Western World who wrote The Playboy of the Western World.
The famous Synge Street School, founded in 1864 by the Christian Brothers, has been based in the area ever since it was established.
IT IS ST. NICHOLAS OF MYRA NOT ST. PATRICK – CARMAN’S HALL OFF FRANCIS STREET
When I photographed this building back in 2012 I thought that the statue on the wall was St. Patrick.
There is both a building and a street named Carman’s Hall.
The National Inventory Of Architectural Heritage describes the building as follows: “Freestanding corner-sited nine-bay two-storey former national school, built 1936-39, having curved two-bay three-storey stair hall to south-west corner, playground and shelter to roof, and two-bay two-storey return to rear (north) elevation. Now in use as parish hall and heritage centre. Flat roof hidden behind parapet with concrete coping, having rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods to north elevation, and flat-roofed concrete shelter with circular-profile piers adjacent to stair hall to west end. Rendered cross to parapet to front. Rendered walls with roughcast render below continuous sill course to ground floor windows. Statue of the Virgin Mary and raised metal lettering to front elevation. Statue of St. Nicholas of Myra to curved south-west corner.”
Below is information provided be Dublin city Council:
Carman’s Hall is a two storey building located along Carman’s Hall in Dublin 8. The site is bounded by Garden Lane to the west, the rear of Mews Garden Court development to the north and a vacant site to the east which is located at the junction of Francis Street and Carman’s Hall. The premises were formerly used as a Parish Centre and known as St. Nicholas of Myra, it is in the ownership of the Dublin Archdiocese. The permitted use under the lease is as a temporary accommodation facility to cater for the needs of homeless persons and the term of the lease will cease on the 1st of September, 2021.
As restrictions are easing during the current Covid-19 Pandemic, the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) & Dublin City Council’s Housing and Community Services give notice that planning permission is sought for the retention of the existing use for a further period of 12 months, until cessation of the lease, of the former Parish centre at 12-14 Carman’s Hall. This is to ensure the continued emergency accommodation of homeless persons during these unprecedented times. This service is funded by the DRHE under Section 10 funding from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The service will continue to be operated by the Dublin Simon Community.
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2017/1011/911532-hall/
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