AN EXAMPLE OF DUBLIN STREET ART IN THE FORM OF A LARGE MURAL ON AUNGIER STREET
Aungier Street is a street on the southside of Dublin, Ireland. It runs north-south as a continuation of South Great George’s Street. Unfortunately both South Great Georges Street and Aungier have suffered from neglect for decades despite the fact that both have much potential.
Formerly this area was waste ground near the Dublin Carmelite Friary. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the monastery’s lands were granted to the Aungier family.
The street was named after the family of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford who developed the street. His name is French and is correctly pronounced [on.ʒje], but modern Dubliners pronounce the street name to rhyme with “danger.” When the street was opened in 1661, it was 70 feet (21 m) wide, the widest in the city.
Edward Lovett Pearce designed a theatre for the street, built 1733–34 and merged with the Smock Alley Theatre in 1743.[
St. Peter’s Church (Church of Ireland) opened in 1685; it closed 1950 and was demolished in 1983.
The poet Thomas Moore was born at 12 Aungier Street in 1779.
In 1829, Aungier Street was the site of the first meeting-room of what would become the Plymouth Brethren.[
The Irish republican Simon Donnelly was born on Aungier Street in 1891.
During the Irish War of Independence, it was suggested that Aungier Street (and several others) would be joined to form Cahirmore Road, named for the legendary king Cathair Mór.
In 1851, Sheridan Le Fanu wrote a ghost story, “An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street.”
Aungier Street appears twice in the work of James Joyce: it is mentioned in “Ivy Day in the Committee Room;” while Leopold Bloom’s blinds were purchased at 16 Aungier Street in Ulysses.
CONSTITUTION HILL AREA – I USED A TEN YEAR OLD CAMERA
I was able to adjust in post but there was excessive purple fringing is some of the imigaes especially those that included trees.
Back in 2011 my plan was to gradually switch from Canon DSLR to Sony Mirrorless and to ease the switch I intended to employ a Metabones adaptor in order to use my Canon lenses which had cost me a lot of money. In reality the idea did not work so I bit the bullet and began to purchase native Sony glass.
Over the last five years I built up an extensive selection of lenses and my collection now includes a number of Voigtlander lenses one of which is a Canon mount that I purchased at an amazing price because my dealer could not get a buyer. All the Voigtlanders are manual. I also have all the Zeiss Batis lens but they are are auto-focus and stabilised.
Today I decided to see if the Voigtlander [LH-40N] Canon Mount lens would work with the Sony NEX-7 [now ten years old and not used for many years] and the Metabones.
Much to my surprise it worked very well which is a lot better than not working which is the outcome that I had expected. To be honest I was surprised that the NEX-7 had focus peaking.
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