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Can anyone identify any other works by Richard Brash?
He seems to have been one of the early members of the Cork Archeological Society and was a pioneer in deciphering ogham stone inscriptions and published on the subject. He also published a book on Irish ecclesiastical architecture to the 12th century in 1875 containing much useful material on the pecilarities of Irish architecture.
@kite wrote:
Copy: Cork City Manager’s statement on Docklands development 10-4-07
Cork City Council has been in contact with various Government Departments over the past 12 months in order to gather support for the redevelopment of Cork Docklands and to ensure that this major project for the city is on national policy agenda.
I was very pleased with An Taoiseach’s recent announcement of the formation of the Cork Docklands National Steering Forum to assist Cork City Council in its effort to secure the sustainable development of Cork Docklands.
The City Council is at present preparing proposals for appropriate aid which will be submitted to Government under the National Development Plan 2007-2013 and the South and East Regional Operational Plan. The Gateways Innovation Fund is part of the National Development Plan.
There is continuous contact with various Government Departments and details of the Cork Docklands National Steering Forum are expected at an early date.
In the meantime, Cork City Council is proceeding to finalise the South Docks Local Area Plan, which will complete a clear development framework for Docklands and give certainty to all stakeholders. It is anticipated that this plan will be brought to Council in the next month.
Quite and anticipation. Let us see what happens this time.
@Praxiteles wrote:
St. Mary’s Church, Buttevant, Co. Cork
The plaster ceiling was installed in 1856 by the Cok architect and archeologist Richard Brash who was also responsible for the Assembly Rooms on the South Mall, Bandon Town Hall and the monumental High Cross erected to the memory of the Cork archeologist John Windele which was executed by Patrick Scannell.
It turns out that the chancel window seen in the photograph was installed in 1886 and is by Mayer of Munich as are the Stations of the Cross erected at the same time.
At the present time the chancel window looks odd. The reason being that a wall was built in front of it in the 1970s -as part of a particularly bad reordering- which obscures at least six feet of the lower part of the window.
St. Mary’s Church, Buttevant, Co. Cork
The plaster ceiling was installed in 1856 by the Cok architect and archeologist Richard Brash who was also responsible for the Assembly Rooms on the South Mall, Bandon Town Hall and the monumental High Cross erected to the memory of the Cork archeologist John Windele which was executed by Patrick Scannell.
@pipedreams wrote:
As a Youghal native, I can say that stencil work was painted over some time in the 1960’s with a green block scheme, and reminded the same till the pink scheme of 2006 (of which I’m not sure I like)
That version of Our Lady of Graces of Youghal is a copy of the original which in fact is only a few inches in dimensions, and is now found in the Dominican Church in Cork. It was originally in the Dominican Abbey in Youghal in medieval times where I believe it was huge religious attraction.
Yes there was a spire, and I always felt it a shame it wasn’t rebuilt!
My grandmother (RIP) often told me about it. and I always remember another story her father told her which relates to the above…Apparently the original Altar was wooden, and was carved by local shipbuilders, and when the new one was installed, the locals were utter disappointed – as the wooden one was meant to be far nicer. I reckon there is some truth in this, as the confessional boxes in this church are wooden, and although in bad repair it shows the excellent craft work that there would have been in Youghal as this time.
Amazingly the Telford organ – which I often played – survives intact, but recently it also has a new paint scheme, which I do not like at all.
More about that here: https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=5319&page=3&highlight=youghalAre there works going on at the church in Youghal at present? It is difficult to obtain any information about them if there are.
I would not be holding any great breaths for that one. Dromeore is tiny in relation to Cloyne and his translation there would be seen as a demotion which – althoughdeserved – is always a no no. No, it is the lontg haul in Cobh for another three years when he will have the excuse to go on age.
@ake wrote:
Here’s a site with excellent interactive panoramas of quite a few buildings, including a brilliant one of donaghmore church
http://www.ireland360.com/index.html
Prax
For the sake of context, would you be prepared to name a church in each european country which is the worst example of vandalism in that country that you know of?Very interesting
@Praxiteles wrote:
Mattias Gruenwald, The Ysenheimer Altarpiece 1515
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/grunewald/grunwld1_text.jpg.html
I think that Gruenewald’s Crucifixion of 1515 is one of the prototypres for the central panel on the Altar of the Crucifixion in the South Transept in Cobh Cathedral.
@ake wrote:
Here’s a site with excellent interactive panoramas of quite a few buildings, including a brilliant one of donaghmore church
http://www.ireland360.com/index.html
Prax
For the sake of context, would you be prepared to name a church in each european country which is the worst example of vandalism in that country that you know of?Let me think about it over Easter and I shall set to work thereafter.
Mattias Gruenwald, The Ysenheimer Altarpiece 1515
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/grunewald/grunwld1_text.jpg.html
Can anyone suggest works produced by a company of ecclesiastical decorators operative in Dublin in the 1920s, 1930s and possibly 1940s called The Craftworkers? they may have had connections with the Harry Clarke studios.
@Fearg wrote:
However, this looks familiar:
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Just what is the matter with these morons who allow such degenerative processes to go unchecked. For a moment I thought this photograph came from Cobh Cathedral….
If nothing else positive can be said about the Cathedral administration in Monaghan, unlike their counterparts in Cobh, they do manage to keep the doors varnished!!
Very nice photographs, ferg. Thanks. It was a pity that the transepts were never glazed with stained glass. But the lines of the building remain and they, like Killarney Cathedral, are quite stupendous.
From The Phoenix Magazine on Waterford Airport
I wonder are there any connections with Cork Ariport……..
On the subject of the 19th. century decorative scheme of the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin, this photograph from c. 1895 gives us some further clues as to what that scheme was. Images of the saints were painted on the ceiling arches (in this case possibly St. Patrick and St. Bridget) with a medallion between them. We have already seen that the frieze was painted with cherubs and seraphs and with inscriptions in Latin.
@kite wrote:
Of course you wouldn’t, in France the people would storm the Bastille and Jacques Chirac would be found swinging from the nearest tree…In Ireland we would have a whip around and give our leader 50 grand so that he could open a piggy bank account.
Viva Le Republic…..the real one!!!There were bad riots in the Gare du Nord yesterday…all to do with “répression”…think of what will happen when the underdog goes topside in Ireland!
Who else but the “culturally” sensitive Irish government would want to build a motor-way through Tara!! I do not, for example, see the French government wanting to build one through Carnac. Perhaps we should simply abandon any public effort to conserve our monuments and outsource the whole shebang to the French governmant. We are running out of solutions….
