#merrion square

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1972 – As eleven victims of Bloody Sunday are buried, the British Embassy in Dublin is burned to the ground by furious demonstrators.

In Dublin, over 30,000 – 100,000 marched to the British Embassy, carrying thirteen replica coffins and black flags. They attacked the Embassy with stones and bottles, then petrol bombs. The building was eventually burnt to the ground. The three days after the Derry massacre were marked by work stoppages and demonstrations in villages, towns and cities across the State. Walk-outs and marches were…

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#Bloody Sunday Massacre #British Embassy #Derry #Dublin #England #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #Jack Lynch #Marches #Merrion Square #Northern Ireland #Parades #Protests

[theirishaesthete]

Then and Now

  In the middle of the 16th century, one Hans Fock moved from the north German city of Lübeck to Estonia, which was then coming under the control of Sweden. Around 100 years later, Queen Christina, shortly before her abdication, elevated Fock’s descendants to the Swedish peerage. After Sweden’s decisive defeat by Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava in 1709 and the subsequent annexation of…

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#Dublin #Georgian Architecture #Historic Interiors #Interior Decoration #Merrion Square

[streetsofdublin]

THE JOKER'S CHAIR IS A MEMORIAL TO DERMOT MORGAN

Already a celebrity in Ireland, Morgan got his big break in Britain with Channel 4's Irish sitcom Father Ted, which ran for three series from 1995 to 1998.

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#Apple #Catherine Greene. Sculpture #Dermot Morgan #Dublin. Infomatique #father ted #Fotonique #iPhone 12 Pro Max #Ireland #memorial #merrion square #Merrion Square Public Park #Public Art

[putoutallthestars]

Sweetest Thing, U2 (1998)

Real men don't cry apologize. It's time to acknowledge the elephant in the room. - Baby Bono apologizing to his wife in the streets of Dublin for forgetting her birthday. - 🍀🇮🇪👨‍🎤❤️

Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl. (Oh, the sweetest thing.) You can sew it up, but you still see the tear. (Oh, the sweetest thing.) Baby's got blue skies up ahead But in this, I'm a rain-cloud, Ours is a stormy kind of love. (Oh, the sweetest thing.)

#ireland #dublin #Ali Hewson #Bono #U2 #sweetest thing #tough love #apologize #1998 #the edge #Kevin Godley #music video appreciation #fitzwilliam place #riverdance #Georgian mile #merrion square #The Joshua Tree #vertigo #where the streets have no name #I still haven't found what I'm looking for

[nerosunero]

21 June 2023, Dublin, Merrion Square

#21 June #DUblin #nerosunero #Merrion Square

[winterindublin]

Dublin Winter Lights returns to Merrion Square Park

Dublin winter lights returns to Merrion Square Park this Thursday 1st to December 22nd!

Dublin City Council is delighted to announce the return of the dazzling ‘Dublin Winter Lights’ to Merrion Square Park. 

Tickets for December 1st - December 14th will be available from tomorrow, November 25th, from 0800.

Tickets for December 15th – December 22nd will be available from 2nd December from 0800.

#winterindublin #christmas #winter lights #dublin #merrion square

[oceancentury]

Georgian Dublin: The Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland.

#queue #Architecture #dublin #Ireland #georgian #Georgian architect #Georgian architecture #interior design #interior #interiors #interior decorating #interior decor #design #culture #plasterwork #My post #oceancentury

[williamedwardparry]

Francis Crozier and O'Connell's chariot

In early September of 1844, Francis Crozier was between jobs, having gotten a year's leave from the Admiralty, and was just beginning to plan his upcoming trip to France and Italy. In the meantime, however, he was spending some time in Dublin with his family.

This meant he was in just the right place at the right time (or, as he may have felt, the wrong place at the wrong time) to experience a historic event: the parading of Repeal politician and statesman Daniel O'Connell through the streets of Dublin on a huge gilded chariot.

(Illustrations taken from the Illustrated London News.)

The ‘chariot’, 3 metres high and 4.5 metres long, was specially made for O’Connell’s glorious re-entry into the city, and modelled on the triumphal cars of ancient Rome. It was upholstered in purple silk and blue wool and adorned with gilded mouldings and decorative overlays, depicting shamrocks and stylised classical foliage. The sides showed Hibernia with the increasingly familiar national iconography of harp, round tower and wolfhound. On the back was a representation in gold of a harp surmounted by the word ‘Repeal’, summarising O’Connell’s campaign for repeal of the Act of Union. (x)

In May of that year, O'Connell and his son had been found guilty on conspiracy charges and sentenced to a year in prison. They'd appealed the verdict to the House of Lords, and their appeal was granted on September 4th, 1844. They were released after serving three months in Richmond Bridewell penitentiary.

On Saturday, September 7th, O'Connell was paraded through the streets of Dublin on his gilded throne-chariot, drawn by six "splendid grey horses" and surrounded by "a crowd of around 200,000 citizens." Several guilds were also represented in the long parade, as well as town council and corporation members and the Lord Mayor. Their route took them from the penitentiary (now the Griffith Barracks Multi-Denominational School) to O'Connell's home on Merrion Square.

If the Crozier house, which was located at 2, Sandford Place, was near where we find Sandford Parish Church today, this was a bit of a walk away. But the crowd clearly made itself felt throughout the city, because on Monday, September 9th, Francis Crozier wrote to James Clark Ross:

What think you the decision of the house of Lords, it has been & is considered here a great victory for Dan – Such a set of Ruffians as were perading [sic] about here on Saturday they say that they Dans people may now do anything as he can get them clear – I did not see one drunk man nor one that looked the least like a gentleman although I suppose he has many adherents that are so by both

Whether Crozier happened to catch sight of O'Connell and the triumphal procession itself isn't clear, but as he gives no description of the spectacle, he may not have. Accounts in the Illustrated London News bear the latter assertion out: "It is a fact worthy of notice, that there was not, in the immense assemblage, a single individual intoxicated; each guild was followed by a temperance band […]," and though excitement continued through the evening, "everything passed off with the utmost quiet."

Leinster (which includes Dublin) was a stronghold for O'Connell and the Repeal movement, but the movement had met resistance in the predominantly Protestant, largely Presbyterian, Ulster. For his own part, though he had publicly stressed common cause and appreciation for Protestant Repealers, O'Connell had privately expressed disdain for the Presbyterian support for the United Irishmen, and for Protestantism in Ireland itself.

Crozier, an Ulsterman and a Protestant, was evidently not very impressed with "Dan" O'Connell and his followers, nor with the handling of the House of Lords:

I must confess that I think the house of Lords have signed their own death warrant as a house of appeal by leaving the case in the hands of a few mountebank political Lords.

A quotation of unclear origin that's often attributed to Sophia Cracroft states that Francis Crozier was an "indifferent speller" and a "horrid radical". If she did say (or write) that, it's difficult to know what sort of radicalism she had in mind.

At the time of Francis' and his siblings' baptisms in the late 18th century, the Crozier family belonged to the Banbridge First Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church—but had, as one of "only four or five" Presbyterian families in town, taken the minority position of not supporting the United Irishmen. Later, Francis' brother Graham became a vicar in the Church of Ireland. Overall, the Croziers come off as fairly solidly establishment. And while we don't know much about Francis Crozier's politics and he may have espoused views Sophia Cracroft would find radical, we do know that he was—unsurprisingly, given his origins—not a Repealer.

Sources:

MSS 284/364/17: Letter from Francis Crozier to James Clark Ross September 9th 1844 (SPRI)

The Illustrated London News, September 14th 1844, pp. 164-6

The Croziers of Banbridge by Olga Kimmins on The Thousandth Part

O'Connell's Chariot on A History of Ireland in 100 Objects (by An Post, The Irish Times, the National Museum of Ireland, and the Royal Irish Academy)

Icebound in the Arctic (2nd edition 2021) by Michael Smith

Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (1989) by R. F. Foster

Griffith Barracks (Wikipedia)

#francis crozier #m #be gentle if i said something stupid; this is not my field; i just thought it was a really cool coincidence #19th century #daniel o'connell

[theperfectpints]

A Nassau Street, nel lontano 1904, James Joyce incontrò per la prima volta la donna che lo "fece diventare un uomo": la sua futura moglie, Nora Barnacle. Nell'estate del 2023, proprio nella via che corre tra Grafton Street e Merrion Square, il progetto "Dublin Canvas" ha dedicato un'opera al grande poeta irlandese. Il box che lo raffigura meravigliosamente, posto nella centralissima zona Dublin 2, è stato realizzato dall'artista Andrew McCarthy: una dimostrazione street art di assoluto livello che celebra nel migliore dei modi uno dei più grandi esponenti della letteratura del XX secolo. A Nassau Street ancora una delle tante note di colore sparse nella capitale irlandese. 🇮🇪 🎨 📚

© Irish tales from Rome

#ireland #dublin #james joyce #irish

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1952 – Birth of actor and comedian, Dermot Morgan, in Dublin.

A former schoolteacher from Dublin, Dermot Morgan broke into comic acting in the late 1970s. He became a household name in the late 1980s for his work on the RTÉ radio show Scrap Saturday, which satirised the Irish politics of the day on either side of the political spectrum as well as business and church leaders and policy. When the show was cancelled in 1991, there were accusations of political…

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#Actor #Comedian #Craggy Island #Dermot John Morgan #Dublin #Father Ted #Ireland #Joker&039;s Chair #Merrion Square

[sarahreesbrennan]

Excited to announce on Sunday May 28 at 4pm in Merrion Square I will be at the International Literature Festival Dublin, #ilfdublin2023 facilitating a conversation between spectacular geniuses Samantha Shannon @say_shannon and Kat Dunn @katalicedunn on their fabulous novels #adayoffallennight and #bitterthorn. I’m already doing so much reading on sinister legacies that nobody asked me to do! I’m honoured to participate in this festival of luminaries, and happy. I’m doing book things again! I remember going to my first convention after being sick and being terrified (@seananmcguire sang outside my hotel room door like a gift of the fey) and then came lockdown and worries I’d been gone too long. But I can party with books again, and people want me to! It’s having a piece of my life back. Can’t wait to talk Gothic and the girls.

#samantha shannon #kat dunn #sarah rees brennan #irish literature festival #seanan mcguire #books books books #cannot stress how much nobody has asked me to reread gothic incest but I do it anyway #Instagram

[streetsofdublin]

ÉIRE MEMORIAL BY JEROME CONNOR

ÉIRE MEMORIAL BY JEROME CONNOR

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#Celtic Revival or Catholicism #Downes bakery #Dublin #Fotonique #Gaelic poets #Infomatique #Ireland #jerome connor #memorial to the Kerry poets #merrion square #Public Art #Sculpture #William Murphy

[breitzbachbea]

tell me what have you seen in ireland? uwu

Oh my god. Oh myyy god. I'LL GLADLY TELL.

So, I did just stay in Dublin bc I like to really get to know one place on my own terms instead of hopping from place to place and only see a bit. I did spend one day in Derry, though.

In Dublin, I went to:

- Dublinia, a museum about medieval and viking Dublin. One of the students working there talked his whole shift away with me and became a friend.

- Christchurch Cathedral, where Strongbow is buried

- St. Patrick's Cathedral (even found two of the mismatched tiles, bc 'only God is perfect'!)

- Dublin Castle (Saw the River Puddle! Or is it Poddle? I'm so bad with Irish river names)

- Strolled through St. Stephen's once, but didn't explore much.

- Went to the see the Book of Kells and the Long Hall in Trinity College (their Cicero bust is so funny)

- Went to the Cobblestones pub with a tumblr mutual and it was a lovely evening

- Visited Henrietta Street 14, one of the old Georgian townhouses that tells the stories from the British High Life to Irish squalor in Dublin

- Just walked around in Grangegorman and Phibsboro, bc that is where Harry, Soph and Paddy live (DESPAIR. still have no clue where I want Charlie to reside.)

- Went to the 'Dead Zoo', the national natural science museum.

- Went to the national archaeological museum and saw a cool sword. And got more extra viking info, bc it was with my Dublinia friend.

- Went to the museum of Modern Irish Literature, which was 80% James Joyce. (One room encourages you to write down the beginning of a book and I just left the beginning of a Harry and Charlie One-Shot at the wall).

- Went to the National Gallery and saw some John Keats and Renaissance Era stuff

- Went to the General Post Office Museum with their great contextualization of the Easter Rising with what came before and after. (Love the poster walls that really embed you in the Zeitgeist).

- Went to EPIC The Museum of Irish Emigration. That one was fun, I think.

- What's it called, Merrion Square? Wherever the Oscar Wilde statue is. I went there.

- In Derry, I went to the Guildhall to see their exhibition on the Ulster Plantation. That was cool!

- I also went to the Free Derry Museum, which does such a good job of contextualizing the beginning of the Troubles.

- And I walked the entirety of Derry's walls once!!! And bc the busride didn't go through Belfast, I saw a lot of the countryside in Derry, Tyrone and Armagh.

- Went to St. Michan's to see the Crypt YEHAAAAW. (The bodies are mummified bc of the temperature staying the same, the limestone walls and the methane gas that comes up through the ground).

I honestly may have forgotten something, I'm not sure. It was all in all a great trip and I already ache to return, the same way I ache to return to Sicily. I know it's Scottish and there is no Ocean in sight but ... my bonnie lies over the ocean ...

#beareplies #mary-eve #I also spent too much time and money in Hodges and Figgs. God. I have barely a cent to my name now.

[oscar-wilde-in-america]

Wilde Sunflowers

Wilde Sunflowers – original painting by Gerard Byrne, Signed.Oil & acrylic border on canvas. Bespoke tray frame. —A Chance To Own This Original Painting— VISIT RESTORATION PROJECT RAFFLE The Oscar Wilde family home, built in 1760 at 1 Merrion Square North, Dublin, has embarked on a much-needed restoration to its annex that houses Sir William’s former consultation room, a gallery, and the…

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#Fundraiser #Gerard Byrne #Merlin Holland #Oscar Wilde House #Wilde Sunflowers

[diningwiththeasquiths]

Oscar's adventures in Dublin 💚

Visiting one of his old colleges, Trinity College, and standing on the grass even though it was not allowed 😎 (Lamb was so kind to prop him up)

Checking out a book from the Long Room, AKA Trinity College Library

Admiring his own fabulous statue in Merrion Square Park ✨

Kissing Bosie 😘 (Sadly Robbie was nowhere to be found, otherwise he would've gotten a kiss too 😌❤️)

#dining rambles #oscar wilde #bosie douglas #dublin #trinity college #the long room

[theirishaesthete]

Now Open

The Irish Aesthete: Ten Years in the Making can be seen at the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 from December 2nd until December 22nd, Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm. Please see https://iarc.ie for further information. This exhibition has been generously sponsored by Sonbrook.

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#Architectural History #Dublin #Historic Interiors #Interior Decoration #Irish Country House