WHEN WILL I BE ABLE TO WALK ALONE – PROTEST STREET ART
Above the green bin at the left hand side of this black wall there is what is known as a “Sheela na gig” which I am not allowed to publish as my photographs are rated as “family friendly” by Google. A few years ago my Pinterest account was suspended [blocked] because I included photographs of an ancient Sheela na gig I also had problems with Flickr.
I should explain that there is an ongoing project known as Project Sheela paying tribute to sites of significance to women’s rights. To the best of my knowledge the street art project was founded by two Dublin artists celebrating female sexuality in Ireland.
This year, images were placed at seven locations, with one being placed in a location each day during the week of International Women’s Day. Details and stories about the locations were posted on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/projectsheela/
My mother, who will be 101 in May, has always claimed that there is a huge number of men who dislike women and even more who have no respect for women. Until recently I thought that she was exaggerating.
Over the last few years I have begun to realise how badly women have been [are being] treated and I am beginning to realise that it may be a lot worse than I ever believed.
THE IRISH YEAST COMPANY IS SLOWLY FADING AWAY – 29 MARCH 2021
Yesterday I published some photographs that showed the Dublin Yeast Company as it was back in 2007 and I promised that I would revisit and photograph it as it is today, assuming that it is still intact.
The good news is that it is still there but there is no doubting the fact that it is, like an old soldier, slowly fading away.
Early in 2018 the Irish Yeast Company building was placed on the market as John Moreland, who lived above the shop for forty years, had died and as no one was interested in taking over business as a going concern.
The building at 6 College Street sold for €850,000 to Declan Doyle the owner of Doyle’s pub next door to Bowe’s Pub on Fleet Street. The plan was to knock through the wall of Bowe’s pub into the mid-18th century building and combining the site at College Street and Fleet Street.
HENRY GILLIGAN GROCER AT 109 CAPEL STREET – RENOVATED BUT UNOCCUPIED
This commercial premises at the corner of Capel Street and Little Britain Street, though not currently in use, retains much of its original form and fabric.
Capel Street, laid out in the late seventeenth century to connect Essex Bridge to North Circular Road, was one of the primary commercial thoroughfares of the city as well as the principal northern route into the city.
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE AND ST THOMAS – CATHAL BRUGHA STREET
This church is also known as St. Thomas Malankara Orthodox Church
My Grand Mother always referred to this church as the Findlater Church and until today I did not realise why. The church is located within a triangle formed by Findlater Place, Cathal Brugha Street and Marlborough Street.
The church was designed by the architect Fredrick G. Hicks and it was opened in 1931, it won the 1932-33 Royal Institute of Architects Ireland Prize. It was built to replace, St. Thomas’s Church on Marlborough Street, which was destroyed following a fire during the Irish Civil War in 1922. It is situated on Cathal Brugha Street, between Findlater Place and Marlborough Street.
With the decline in the Anglican community in 1966 the parish of St. Thomas merged with the parish of St. George. In 1990, St. George’s Church, Dublin, and the church was renamed the Church of St. Thomas and St. George. St. George’s Brass Band moved to Cathal Brugha Street, where they meet every Monday.
Over the years a number of other Christian denominations were allowed to use the church, including Orthodox, Filipino Christians and Anglican Igbo Speaking Community. St. Thomas Indian Orthodox Church use the church for their weekly services, and from 2006 it became their parish church, the St. Thomas Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church.Anglican community,
St. Thomas’s ceased to be the Church of Ireland parish church in 2017. The parishes of Drumcondra and North Strand (Waterloo Avenue) would serve as parish churches for the Anglican community.
WISHING HAND BY LINDA BRUNKER – PHOTOGRAPHED USING A VOIGTLANDER 40mm F2 LENS
Today I used a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 SL-II [Canon mount] attached to a Sony A7RIV using an adapter. This lens is manual but I like using it.
The Ultron 2.0 / 40 SL II has a flat design with a length of 24.5 mm and comes bundled with a close-up lens, which adjusts the macro-adjustment range from 1:7 to 1:4.
Across from the Pro Cathedral in Dublin in the middle of the grounds of the Department Of Education stands an interesting bronze sculpture of a human hand named “The Wishing Hand” by Dublin sculptor Linda Brunker.
Linda Brunker was born in Dublin, Ireland. She studied at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and received a degree in Fine Art. Her bronze sculptures have been exhibited in Ireland and abroad and are present in several private and corporate collections.
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