Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

This is a most important picture of the interior of the North Cathedral in Cork showing its interior before the initially hacked by Boyd Barrett in 1962 -who demolished the reredos of the High Altar and wrecked the work of John Hogan, and the funerary monuments of Giuseppe Turnarelli – and the appalling vandalism practiced in 1997 on the Cathedral by Hacker Hurley and team drawn from the liturgically beknighted. The pictues is also important for its affords a good view of teh stensicl work of the ceiling installed in 1827 by the Payne brothers – and which the Hacker Hurley, no doubt “rescuing Vatican II from the ashes”, as he puts it, stripped the paint from all the original timber work.

And this is how Hacker Hurley, “saving Vatican II from the ashes”, left the North Cathedral: