Stained Glass from New Birmingham/Glengoole, Tipperary
Some shots of stained glass from New Birmingham/Glengoole , Slieveardagh, Tipperary
Statuary from Kilcooley Abbey, Tipperary
Kilcooley Abbey is near Gortnahoe in the Slieveardagh area of Tipperary . It is home to Tipperary’s only pyramid (as far as I know) Above: A mermaid holding a…
Muscular Christianity: Fr James Doheny brings the Tipperary Way to West Cork
Here is the arresting life of Fr James Doheny, a priest of whom it could be rightly said they don’t make ’em like they used to: According to the records…
Heritage Week 2017 Walking Tour of Medieval Sculpture and Folk Art in Fethard — Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland
This is reblogged from the wonderful Pilgrimage in Medieval Ireland site. I have blogged about Fethard heritage here and here – this is a far more informed guide! On Thursday…
Frank Ebrington, The Dubliner who was The World’s Fastest Man
From “Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time” by Simon Garfield Before sport became a subject for record books, there was just the realisation that humans (upright, no tail)…
Stained Glass from Church of St Laurence O’Toole, Kilmacud, Dublin
Opened on December 14th 1969 by Flann O’Brien’s English teacher the Church of St Laurence O’Toole in Kilmacud is one of those very late twentieth century ecclesiastical spaces in Dublin…
“False tension between the Christian and classical worlds”: from Victor Watts’ Preface to his translation of “The Consolation of Philosophy”, Boethius
A while ago I blogged about Albrecht Durer’s engraving of St Jerome in his study. I linked to and quoted an article on St Jerome by James R Edwards which…
Was the term “bed and breakfast” first used in 1978? (as well as “Tinseltown”)
Merriam-Webster have a fun online toy which you use to enter a year and purports to show you the words that first appeared in print that year. (I came across…
Séamus Sweeney 