#Irish architecture

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Ireland

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Kinsale | Munster | Ireland.

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St. Patrick's Day

We celebrate St. Patrick's Day today with a celebration of Ireland's second-largest city Cork, with engravings by Daniel Corbett from the 1815 edition of The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork (originally published in 1750) by the Irish topographer, writer, and apothecary Charles Smith (1715–1762), published in Cork by John Connor, one of the most successful Irish publisher/booksellers of his day. With curvy St. Patrick's St. splicing through the center of the old city, Corkonians (or Leesiders, as the old city is an island in the River Lee) often refer to their city as "the real capital" (ostensibly because of its its opposition to the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty in the Irish Civil War, but mainly because of its rivalry with Dublin) and "the Rebel City" (ostensibly because of its support for the Yorkist cause in the Wars of the Roses, but mainly because it residents view themselves as different from the rest of Ireland), and sometimes even as The People's Republic of Cork.

We appreciate Cork's independent spirit and Daniel Corbett's engravings of the city. The cartouche on his map features "the man of Cork," likely representing the River Lee, sitting in one of the quay's of the city. We don't know what he's holding in his left hand (it looks like an oar, or maybe a rudder), but we think he's holding some uilleann pipes in his right, and who knows what's pouring out of the urn next to him; perhaps the river itself?

The Exchange shown here was built on the south corner of Main and Castle Streets in 1708. Today, the Cork Catholic Young Men's Society Hall stands at that corner with a plaque identifying it as the original center of the ancient city and another plaque above commemorating John George MacCarthy (1829-1892), the Society's first president.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit!!

View more St. Patrick’s Day posts.

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House in the Country, Ireland - Arigho Larmour Wheeler

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I’ve been visiting Romanesque and Gothic Irish buildings and it’s a bit bizarre because I’ve visited similarly aged buildings in Italy but they were less dilapidated because they didn’t have to deal with the weather and that prick Oliver Cromwell

[vintagehomecollection]

The kitchen is decorated with nineteenth-century blue and white Dutch tiles and a set of copper pans. The ceramic cheese-making jug in the foreground was made by Stephen Pearce, a potter from County Cork.

In an Irish House, 1988

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"JOLT" - acrylics/ink on watercolour paper (+digital) - March 2025

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Celtic Carving

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Cobh | Munster | Ireland.

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Older than the pyramids, older than Stonehenge, Newgrange covers more than an acre and it's possible to climb inside on a guided tour - by lottery on the days closest to the winter solstice on 21st December.

For approximately 17 minutes on the shortest day of the year, and a shorter amount of time on the days either side, the chamber receives direct sunlight - if there is any to be had.

In 2024, the solstice will be the morning of the 21st of December at 09:20 when the Sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Capricorn and hence at it's lowest latitude relative to Earth. From here on the days get longer.

So for 2024 the livestream from inside Newgrange will be on Saturday December 21st from 08:40

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Good vs bad. The small details such as the roof overhang, decorative dentils, chimney placement (though the exposed brick does not look good), window style and size make all the difference in enhancing a simple new build version of a late Georgian / early Victorian style villa. Even without the porch the first house would still look characterful, timeless and well proportioned. You can also see in the second home no consideration was given to the symmetry of windows on the other sides of the house.

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Goulding Summerhouse, Enniskerry, Ireland - Ronald Tallon

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Irish Channel

New Orleans

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In a hall recently acquired clam shell sits on an intricately carved late seventeenth-century Irish mahogany table that came from a house in County Leix. The table is carved on both sides and designed to stand in the centre of a room rather than against a wall.

In an Irish House, 1988

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