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St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral Church, Fermoy, Co. Cork
The 19th. century interior showing the High Altar an the painted stenciled wall decorations.
St. Patrick’s Pro-cathedral Church, Fermoy Co. Cork
This church served as Cathedral for the diocese of Cloyne before the building of Cobh Cathedral which became functional in 1878. St. Patrick’s was built around 1810. Originally it was in the classical style and the architect may have been Brother Michael Augustine O’Riordan. Under Bishop Timothy Murphy, the church lost its classical interior to an ornate plaster gothick interior in 1842. The work was carried out by the Pain Brothers. In 1867, the classical exterior gave way to a gothic exterior with spire. IN the 1970s the later 19th.century High Altar was demolished leaving the East End of the church without a focal point. More unfortunate was the destruction of Seamus Murphy’s marble pulpit which had been erected in the 1930s.
1. Pugin and Ashlin’s Gothic exterior of 1867
2. The Pain brothers’ interior plaster gothik interior of 1842. The West End.
3. The organ gallery with the 1850s Telford Organ
4. The sanctuary and east end.
5. The gutted sanctuary now lacking a focal point
Some further pictures of Dublin churches including a good study of Hogan’s Dead Christ in Whitefriars:
A fine photographic study of Newman’s University Church, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95903088@N00/sets/72157594539599354/
By the way, does anyone have any ideas re. the newly installed wall-paintings? I believe they are the result of Bertie Ahern’s munifence and his attempt to rival Lorenzo the Magnificent!!
A study of St. Andrew’s Westland Row:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95903088@N00/sets/72157594539663938/
Another fine studyof White Friars, Dublin from the same source:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59301202@N00/sets/72157594527625262/show/
From the quondam Cork Examiner or 17 February 2007
Cork international airport finally has ONE functioning airbridge!!!!!! Yepee, Yepee !!!!!!
17 February 2007
Airport passenger grateful for dry run
MY wife and I flew to Spain from Cork airport last Saturday.
To our welcome surprise, our Aer Lingus flight to Madrid was boarded via the sole airbridge at Cork airport’s smart new terminal.
It was a wet morning and it was a treat to use this new facility for the first time instead of being blown around on a wet and windy ramp.
We felt almost like VIPs strolling down the airbridge to the aircraft in the dry and it marked a good start to our weekend break.
Other passengers with reduced mobility will welcome this basic but important facility at a frequently wet airport.
So, top marks to Cork airport authority for the airbridge and to Aer Lingus for finally treating some of their Cork passengers with as much comfort at home as they do at their outstations in Europe and the US.
All that remains now is for the airport authority to finish the job and put in the other airbridges without further excuse and delay.
Thomas Whelan
61 Fr Matthew Road
Turners Cross
CorkWhat a superb study of St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95516907@N00/sets/72157594540433273
A propos Altars:
A voice from (geographically) down-under:
And another little something on the Liturgical Movement:
Here is a piece by Pius Parsch which is not without difficulties:
The Reform of the Liturgical Movement; The Oxford Declaration 1996
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Inside/08-96/liturgy2.html
From today’s olim Cork Examiner:
17 February 2007
Flights challenge
THERE will be flights from Knock to New York and Boston by FlyGlobeSpan beginning in May.
Where are the movers-and-shakers for Cork airport? Surely, it could generate greater numbers than Knock and Cork county would be helped economically with flights to and from New York and Boston.
Having recently lost a ferry service to the UK, surely the Cork airport authorities should become more proactive in acquiring direct services to and from the US.
Bill Hurley
Hyannis
Cap Cod
Massachusetts
USA@Chuck E R Law wrote:
I got the point… but it wasnt worth getting. Basely, Gaudi is the vice to cause demented bullshit to reign (in Spain).
No, no, Chuck,….he was not a matador, he was an architect!
Well, well, if it is not Chuck, welcome back.
Unfortunately, you missed the point about the magic square. It is just a clever way of symbolizing the number 33 on the Passion Facade – a reference to the dominical age, just in case you did not get it. Basically, it is a device to cause mental bells to ring!
At the basis of the controversy surrounding the proposed wreckage of St. Colman’s Cathedral lurks the problem of the so called “Liturgical Movement”. The following link provides a brief historical outline of this phenomenon and points out the major watersheds in its history – while the conclusions of the article would not be universally accepted it is a useful overview: http://www.catholicrestoration.org/library/revolution.htm
The next link furnishes a review of some recent scholarship on the subject of the Liturgical Movement:
A good question from yesterday’s quondam Cork Examiner:
15 February 2007
Who’s to blame for killer roads?
ON yet another weekend of road casualties recently, three died in single-car night-time accidents where the vehicle had ‘gone out of control’.
Has any of the bodies appointed to oversee road safety examined the probability of these being associated with our inadequate road markings? Gaybo rattles-on, emotionally, about speed; others, more sensible, mention drink-driving; but no-one appears to consider the roads.
In recent years we have brought in a blanket speed-limit: national roads, 100km/h; regional roads, 80km/h.
Here in west Cork, we have the N71, long twisting sections, high hedges on both sides, no hard shoulder, no side markings — but, hey, it is a national road, let’s all go at 100km/h, the Government says it is safe — and who are we to argue with the Government?
We have a regional road from Skibbereen to Dunmanway, wide straight stretches, emergency hard shoulder, great visibility, but it’s only a regional road, so we must crawl at 80km/h.
We have a new feature appearing around the country — tarmac laid on top of old, unprepared surfaces.
In many cases, some of the new surface peels-off, leaving potholes of varying sizes and dips over old manhole and valve covers, but even worse are the ‘cliffs’ left on the edge of the road. I have measured some of them in my vicinity at 9 ins. If, in taking evasive action (a stray animal or such), a driver has to swerve to the left and drops one wheel into one of them, God only knows where he/she and the car will land.
We have a National Roads Authority which appears to have no authority.
I contacted them about auditing a very inadequate resurfacing job on a national road.
I was informed it was not their responsibility.
Could they quantify, on the 257km between Cork and Dublin (the first and second cities of the State) the amount of motorway, dual carriageway, single carriageway with and without continuous lines (broken down by width and without emergency hard shoulders) and speed-restricted within town boundaries?
They didn’t have those sort of figures. Surely to God, anybody with authority should have an inventory of their responsibility.
Come on, Irish road-users need, even deserve, better than this.
Cal Hyland
4 Closheen Lane
Rosscarbery
Co Cork
