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Could it be the statue of Victoria on her horse, originally on Dame street then moved to the lawn of Leinster House and finally shipped off to the Victoria Institute in Australia. The dates I’m not sure of.
Ok, Walton was the only nobel laureate in physics; http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1951/walton-bio.html
I want to communicate that there is a lack of awareness for the sciences. A LARGE SCALE interactive museum for the sciences (physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics), not just optical telescopes, would be of huge benefit, to everyone.
And what a perfect place — Stack A.
A science museum would be wonderful. We have no such museums yet although the number of Irish scientists is huge, including Nobel prize winners. Also a History of Architecture
museum would wonderful. The history of Dublin has been done before, bring the tourists into the IFSC so they can be over-charged, lovely. It is time for something fresh and novel, and Bertie, we are an independent nation for almost 100 years, lets start behaving so.Is that the John Keatings that sold the old pub so McDonalds could build another bugger shop.
I think St. Mary’s was even a Greek Orthodox church for some time and I’m sure it has some link to the nearby St. Mary’s Abbey too.
On the same theme of John’s lane, I came across a web site on its bells; http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~atbates/johns-lane.html
I know the architect was John Rennie, who also designed Howth and Dun Laoghaire Harbours. It was built around 1820 with the purpose of storing toabacco and wine (in the vaults) , and was made to be “fire-proof”. A huge banquet for 4000 people, soldiers and civilians, was held there shortly after the Crimean War. It really would be a perfect place for a cultural centre for everybody.
Duncan, can you let me know when you will next visit the stack.“Dublin’s Churches” by John Costello, I think was published a bit over ten years ago. It covers many of Dublin’s churches, both old and new. It’s a bit difficult to find and it is out of press. I think the work of church architect John Semple is fascinating, especially the Black Church which inspired Austin Clarke to write the poem “Around The Black Church”. I read recently that John Semple designed something like 14 churches around Dublin. I know of just a handful
I just thought of the spire of St. Georges Church, Hardwicke Place, the scaffolding has been wrapped around it for many years now. Does anyone know what’s the purpose/reason. I recently heard that the old bells of St. Georges, which were in storage since the early nineties, were installed in Taney Chruch, Dundrum.
Despite tons of study I think this aspect of architecture deserves some discussion.
For example, the effect of the industrial revolution on architecture, the difference
between Georgian and Victorian architecture and the atmosphere architecture can generate such as Victorian, Stalin-Gothic or Gaudi architecture.
