Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

@Praxiteles wrote:

Yes, I think the time has arrived to turn up the heat on the issue of the shameful neglect and casual vandalism of Cobh Cathedral. I am inclined to propose a coalition of interested conservationist groups: An Taisce, The Irish Georgian Society, the Pugin Society, the Victorian Society, and the FOSCC. An umbrella group such as this will certainly move the indolent pot-sitters in Cobh Urban District Council and in the Cathedral Restoration Steering Committee.

Three cheers for Prax and the victory of Common Sense! Turn up that heat, and rout the parade of poltroons, popinjays, and parvenues who are allowing the magnificent cathedral of St Colman’s, Cobh, to crumble around them. Whilst the poltroons take their leisure, and the popinjays strut their plumage, and the parvenues indulge their taste for the vulgar, such a coalition of well-respected and responsible groups would soon put an end to the St Colman’s Follies. Hold them to account for the debacle of decay and desuetude threatening the very existence of that world-heritage site! ADVANCE!!!

And do look into the possibility of having St Colman’s declared a world-heritage site. It remains a unique masterpiece of 19th-cent. neo-Gothic architecture.