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@ake wrote:
The Tabernacle in Thurles Cathedral
[ATTACH]5134[/ATTACH]Does anybody know if there exists a drawing or painting depicting the tabernacle in the Gesú, in situ, in it’s original position?
Ake!
What you are looking for is to be found in two plates, nos. LXXI and LXXII, published in Padre Pozzo’s book Perspectivae Pictorum atque Architectorum of 1692.
There is also an article in the Burlington Magazine vol.112, no.803′ (Feb 1970) by Joseph D Cahill Masheck entitled The orediscovery of the original High Altarof teh Gesu.
@ake wrote:
The Tabernacle in Thurles Cathedral
[ATTACH]5134[/ATTACH]Does anybody know if there exists a drawing or painting depicting the tabernacle in the Gesú, in situ, in it’s original position?
Ake!
What you are looking for is to be found in two plates, nos. LXXI and LXXII, published in Padre Pozzo’s book Perspectivae Pictorum atque Architectorum of 1692.
There is also an article in the Burlington Magazine vol.112, no.803′ (Feb 1970) by Joseph D Cahill Masheck entitled The orediscovery of the original High Altarof teh Gesu.
This is Giacomo della Port’s Tabernacle which has been rather badly mutilated by the latest round of liturgical nonsense and Unfug in Thurles Cathedral. I have seen drawings of the interior of the Gesu with the Tabernacle in situ. It will take a while to doig them out.
The Tabernacle was bought from teh Jesuits by Archbishop Leahy in 1870 while he was attending the First Vatican Council.
@ake wrote:
Thanks.
I’d love to see a few of the churches with the seating temporarily removed, they look so much grander.How can there be no before picture? Surely there MUST have been one in that quite lavish book ‘A Cathedral Renewed’? They couldn’t have published a book about the ‘renewal’ of a building without a picture of what needed to be ‘renewed’ in the first place, could they?
Just give me a while qnd I will answer that question; I have located a copy and after much difficulty expect to have it before mid July. However, I would not a priori rule out the possibility of the book“s not having a “before” picture.
@ake wrote:
Was a before picture of St.Macartan’s ever posted on the forum?
The short answer is no. The mind police have ensured that nothing is available. Perhaps someone might ask the bishop of Clogher to supply one so as to evaluate his efforts on the building. Or perhaps that might explain why there are no photographs!
In the meantime, I am, as the police say, following a line of enquiry!!!
something from You Tube:
@corcaighboy wrote:
sad state of affairs when cathedral maintenance has to be undertaken by an odd granny or two!
Well, there you have it!
Yes indeed!
It is reported that some 200,000 Euro was wasted on the enterprise and it is said that the funds were provided by a prominent business man who had been seeply involved in the unfortunate mess – he evidently thought that wrecking Cobh cathedral was a philanthropic opportunity.
Here is picture of the strapwork on the main door of Cobh Cathedral. The metal has been left to corrode for several years.
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
Here we have a photograph taken in July 2006. We have seen the ugly sight before redolent of untidiness and abject slovenliness. But what I wouldlike to know is where do those marble panels come from? Have they been wrenched from some part of the Cathedral interior and if so what is Cobh Urban District Council doing about it?
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh Co. Cork
Here is aphotograph of the interior taken in February 2007. You will note that the Christmas decorations are still hanging from the choir gallery. Can soem one tell me why the liturgically sensitive who are running Cobh Cathedral were so slovenly and lazy that they could get around to taking these decoration down at the end of the liturgical season?
I also notice that the Christmas crib was still hanginga round the place at Easter!!! WHat kind of liturgical insight is conveyed by this haphazard coincidence?
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork.
Found this collection on Flickr:
@colm07 wrote:
Praxiteles, I dont give a hoot about the French. You study this stuff? Since Napoleon the French have always been loosers. They love to surrender, those people.
There could be something to that. It might be connected with their well known sense of national humility!
They make those German toy soldiers in Ballyvourney – lots of them!
BTW The coalition was not against the French but against the French Revolutionaries under Napoleon!
@Maskhadov wrote:
they should remove all british symbols because its an absolute joke that another country has them on your own national buildings. It just highlights how deformed some of the people are in the political establishment here.
I have tried to point out before on this thread that many of the armoral displays on Irish buildings -especially before 1800- are not British but are proper to the Kingdom of Ireland, irrespective of whomsoever ruled it.
Also, other displays are so diluted that they can hardly be regarded as British. Take the coat of arm on Monaghan Court House. Of 8 fields on it, only 2 are English, one is Scottish, 1 is Irish, 3 are German, and 1 (in pretence) refers to the Holy Roman Empire!!
Was it not an allied victory at Waterloo involving Austria, Prussia, Russia, the emigé French, and the British?
