Easter is one of the most celebrated of all holidays in Ireland. The Easter starts with Ash Wednesday at the start of Lent, and culminating in Easter Sunday celebrations and a public holiday the day afterward.
When I worked in California I once commented that “Easter is early this year”and that confused everyone in the office and one person said “when do they tell you when Easter is due”. They were really surprised when I explained ,i not so many words, that Easter and its related holidays are moveable feasts, not falling on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars which follow only the cycle of the Sun; its date is calculated based on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. I was really surprised as all but two had, at times, made a big deal about being Christian.
Most Christians refer to the week before Easter as “Holy Week”, which contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. In Western Christianity, Eastertide, or the Easter Season, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks, ending with the coming of the 50th day, Pentecost Sunday. In Eastern Christianity, the Paschal season begins on Pascha and ends with the coming of the 40th day, the Feast of the Ascension.
Ash Wednesday is a Christian holy day of prayer and fasting. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and falls on the first day of Lent, the six weeks of penitence before Easter. Ash Wednesday is traditionally observed by Western Christians. It is observed by Catholics in the Roman Rite, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, Nazarenes, and Independent Catholics, as well as by many from the Reformed faith (inclusive of the Congregationalist, Continental Reformed, and Presbyterian traditions) and United Protestants.
As it is the first day of Lent, many Christians begin Ash Wednesday by marking a Lenten calendar, praying a Lenten daily devotional, and making a Lenten sacrifice that they will not partake of until the arrival of Eastertide.
TAXI DRIVER BLOCKS THE 150 BUS CASTLE STREET – WERBURGH STREET
This was a strange place for the taxi to park as he effectively blocked two streets.
This may have been the first time that I used the 90mm Macro Lens with my Sony A7RIV. I was really annoyed as I spent a lot of money on a Sony A7RIV camera body shortly before the arrival of Covid-19 here in Ireland and as a result had little opportunity to use it. In many ways the 90mm, even though it is a G lens rather than a GM lens, is my best lens. https://phillipreeve.net/blog/review-sony-fe-90mm-f2-8-macro-oss-one-of-sonys-finest/
In the medieval period, Castle Street was a hive of activity and commerce, lined with timber-caged houses and shops, home to bookbinders, saddlers, armourers and taverns, flanking the defensive walls of Dublin Castle.
Werburgh Street derived its name from a church erected there after the Anglo – Norman settlement, which was dedicated to Saint Werburgh, patron of Chester.
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