Urban Expression And Depression By Infomatique
UPPER GRANGEGORMAN 1 MARCH 2021
Grangegorman is located in the Dublin 7 postal district, north of the River Liffey and about 1 km from Dublin city centre, and its boundaries run, approximately, along Brunswick Street North, Prussia Street and Manor Street, the North Circular Road and Phibsborough Road and Constitution Hill. Grangegorman is surrounded to the south east by Smithfield to the west by Stoneybatter, north by Cabra, to the north and east by Phibsborough / Broadstone.
ORMOND SQUARE AND ORMOND PLACE DUBLIN 7
Michael John “Johnny” Giles (born 6 November 1940, in Ormond Square, Dublin, Ireland) is a former association footballer and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. Since retirement he has served as “the Senior Analyst” on RTÉ Sport’s coverage of association football.
Giles grew up in Ormond Square, a working-class area of inner-city Dublin, where he developed much of the skills that would aid him in becoming a professional footballer. He was encouraged to enter the game through his father Christy who played for Bohemians in the 1920s and managed Drumcondra during the 1940s.
Ormond Place, which I though was named Ormond Lane, is a laneway connecting Ormond Square to Arran Street and, via a narrow alleyway, to Ormond Quay.
CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART AT ARBOUR HILL
The Church of the Sacred Heart, Arbour Hill, Dublin 7 was given the title “Church of the Defence Forces” in 1997, with the closure of Collins Barracks, which is located directly across the road from the Church.
Historically the location is of major significance, since in the grounds of Arbour Hill Church are buried the remains of the leaders who died in the Easter Rising of 1916.
The Church of the Sacred Heart forms part of a tripartite façade – known as Arbour Hill Prison. The church is linked to the main entrance of the prison by screen walls, which extend to the Governor’s House on the far side. This complex of buildings was designed by Jacob Owen in 1835 and later rebuilt by Joshua Webb in 1845. Work on the buildings was completed in 1848.
The church has an elaborate cruciform interior and a stained glass window by the Harry Clarke Studios behind the altar. It has an unusual entrance porch with stairs leading to twin galleries for visitors at the nave and transept. This feature is copied from the National Scotch Church, Bow St, London designed by Robert Wallace.
Another interesting architectural feature is the Celtic round tower which erupts from a rectangular base.
MANOR STREET – STONEYBATTER AREA OF DUBLIN
Stoneybatter, historically known as Bohernaglogh, is a neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, on the Northside of the city between the River Liffey, the North Circular Road, Smithfield Market, and Grangegorman. It is in the Dublin 7 postal district.
It is often referred to as Dublin’s “hipster quarter” and was in TimeOut magazine’s list of ’40 coolest neighbourhoods in the world’ in 2019.
James Collins’ 1913 book Life in Old Dublin notes that “Centuries ago (Stoneybatter) was called Bothar-na-gCloch”. In Joyce’s Irish names of places we find the following interesting information as to the original name of the place: “Long before the city had extended so far, and while Stoneybatter was nothing more than a country road, it was — as it still continues to be — the great thoroughfare to Dublin from the districts lying west and north-west of the city; and it was known by the name of Bothar-na-gCloch (Bohernaglogh), i.e. the road of the stones, which was changed to the English equivalent, Stoneybatter or stony road”.
Stoneybatter is the main location for events in the Tana French novel “The Trespasser” and the area is mentioned in the Irish folk song “The Spanish Lady”.
BROADSTONE AREA OF DUBLIN AND NEARBY- 3 JUNE 2020 [TESTING SIGMA DP1 QUATTRO DAY 1]
Today a new Sigma DP1 Quattro arrived and, almost in every way, it is unusual and a bit weird. To the best of my knowledge it was introduced about six years ago and at the time I avoided it as it had many issues. For me the main problem was that the RAW images could not be processed using Lightroom [or any other third party software]. The battery life was poor and the post-production software supplied by Sigma was useless.
Because of the Covid-19 crisis I have had a lot of time to spare so I began to experiment with a Sigma DP3 Merrill and as I was very pleased with the results I decided to reconsider the Quattro series of cameras.
Recently I discovered that the Quattro DP1 could now produce DNG files that could be processed by Lightroom and other software so I decided to buy a new DP1 Quattro that was available to me at a very good price.
Today my photographs were capture using the DNG option but having examined the images I feel that RAW might be better however the workflow will be greatly impacted if I discover that RAW produces better quality images. I plan to capture in RAW tomorrow.
The dp1 Quattro is an APS-C sensor, fixed focal length cameras. The latest, 28mm-equivalent, model features dramatic styling and a fundamental re-think of Sigma’s Foveon multi-layer sensor design. The Quattro sensor still uses three layers to detect colour information but now only captures its full, 19.6 million pixel resolution in the top layer, with lower two layers capturing 4.9MP of information each. The stand out feature is that the body shape is unusual to the extend that many people did not like using it but I actually like it.
