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21st March

The First Day of Spring

Aengus by Beatrice Elvery. Source: Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russell/ Wikipedia

Today is the First Day of Spring, following yesterday’s Vernal Equinox. It is the first day of the year in which daylight hours are greater than those of the night. This made it very significant for the ancient religions. The Celts paid particular honour to Aengus Mac Og, their god of youthfulness today. Aengus was a sun god, who was conceived and born in the space of a single day when his father, the mighty Dagda made love to a mortal woman, cuckolding her husband by magic, having him believe a single day rather than nine months had passed when he returned home to find his wife with a babe in arms. Aengus grew up to be beautiful, muscular and ever-youthful and married a swan who alternated as a seductive maiden. This time-warping explains the god’s attachment to the Equinox. Aengus’ palace was Brugh na Boinn which survives as several inscribed standing stones in County Meath, Ireland.

Today also used to be St Benedict’s Day, which was the last day on which to safely sow peas if you wish to avoid a failed crop.

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Fate Grand Order Servant Comparisons

Diarmuid Ua Duibhne

Left - FGO

Right - Illustration by Beatrice Elvery in Violet Russell's Heroes of the Dawn (1914)

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Bridgit - Miss Elvery (Beatrice Elvery), 1909.

William Orpen, (Irish artist, 1878 - 1931).

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5th October 1908 - Ireland. The Regiment's Boer War Memorial was unveiled in what was then the Regimental Depot in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. The ceremony was performed by the Marquis of Ormonde. 350 men of the 2nd Battalion were transported from Buttevant for the ceremony and men of the 3rd Reserve Battalion were also present. The Monument still stands in Clonmel although the barracks is gone and, in 2022, the monument itself was moved from its original position.

The monument was designed by Richard Orpen and built by C W Harrison of Dublin. Beatrice Elvery designed and modelled the angel and bronze decorations. Miss Elvery went wild with the Art Nouveau design. The monument stands 15 feet high and the limestone was quarried in Stradbally, Co. Laois.

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Through the darkness came a shaft of flame, Fionn raised his shield to catch it, by Beatrice Elvery 1914

"It was the eve of Samhain, and a bitter north wind was shrieking round the llath of the Kings at Tara, carrying on its icy breath frequent showers of snow and hail. But the cold fury of the storm did not enter the great dun, warm with many fires and bright with the light from a hundred candles, each in its own bronze sconce, and the metal rims of the warriors' shields hanging on the walls reflected the light in a myriad rays.

Now within the dun there was silence ; listening to the soft, delicate music one after another of the warriors and kings had slipped from their seats and lay on the floor, wrapped in a deep slumber. Even the Druids were powerless to resist that sleep-compelling melody. Their symbols of power dropped from their hands as they, too, fell to the floor. In all that great rath there was not one soul awake, except the young champion who kept watch ; even warriors, wounded almost to death and racked with pain, slumbered peacefully.

Nearer and nearer the music came, then ceased ; but Fionn, gazing steadily before him, became aware of a gigantic figure standing some distance away, like a darker blot on the starlit darkness of the night. The boy gripped his spear with his brave right hand, holding his shield firmly with his left. Then through the darkness came a shaft of flame, blown from the enchanter's mouth, and Fionn raised his shield to catch it. But the shield changed to a four- folded impenetrable mantle woven from the blue of air, the green of earth, the crimson of fire, and the purple of ocean which caught the magician's fire-blast and scattered it on every side in showers of sparks which did no evil. Again and again Aillen mac Midna blew his venomous shafts, and each time the mantle diverted them and rendered them harmless. At last Aillen knew that some one, who possessed a greater magic than his, was defending Tara that night, and full of baffled fury he turned and fled."

-Violet Russell, Heroes of the Dawn

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Beatrice Glenavy (Elvery) (1881-1970, Irish) ~ From the Sea, n/d

[Source: artuk.org]

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Angus the Young

“It is love yet unbreathed, and yet not love, but rather a hidden unutterable tenderness, or joy, or the potency of these, which awakens as the image of the divine imagination is reflected in the being of the Mother, and then it rushes forth to embrace it. The Fountain beneath the Hazel has broken. Creation is astir. The Many are proceeding from the One. An energy or love or eternal desire has gone forth which seeks through a myriad forms of illusion for the infinite being it has left. It is Angus the Young, an eternal joy becoming love, a love changing into desire, and leading on to earthly passion and forgetfulness of its own divinity. The eternal joy becomes love when it has first merged itself in form and images of a divine beauty dance before it and lure it afar.”

— George William Russell (A.E.), The Candle of Vision

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Beatrice Elvery, Aengus (1914) Illustration from Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russell

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Upcoming Exhibit: Dijit to Bridjit: A Selection of Letters from Sir William Orpen to Beatrice Elvery (Lady Glenavy)

Curated by Jeanne Cannizzo

Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) was one of Britain’s most successful society portraitists before the First World War, during which he worked as an artist on the Western Front. While at the Paris Peace conference he painted oil studies of several Canadian Expeditionary Force generals, including Sir Arthur W. Currie, onetime resident of Victoria.

An inveterate letter writer with a wide correspondence, Orpen illustrated many of his missives with self-deprecating drawings. Beatrice Elvery (1883-1970), later Lady Glenavy, first met Orpen when they were both students at Dublin’s Metropolitan School of Art. After he returned as a teacher, she modelled for him but focused her own work on sculpture. Orpen’s 1909 portrait of Beatrice, wearing his hat, reveals both her much admired mass of red hair and an impish smile. Today her stained glass windows in Irish churches are probably her best known works.

Dates: September 8-October 14, 2017

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Mearns Centre for Learning—McPherson Library, Room A005

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Beatrice Elvery- Heroes of the Dawn, 1914.

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'The Intruder'. Beatrice Elvery. 1931.

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Fionn fighting Aillen, illustration by Beatrice Elvery in Violet Russell's Heroes of the Dawn (1914)

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Fate Grand Order Servant Comparisons

Scáthach

Left - FGO

Right -  Illustrated by Beatrice Elvery, from Heroes Of The Dawn, 1914

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Miss Elvery (Beatrice Elvery), 1909. William Orpen (Irish, 1878-1931).  

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″She had three children Patrick, Bridget (known as Biddy) and Michael. While they were living in Ireland, the house was targeted by the Anti-treaty side in the Irish Civil War. Elvery objected to the burning of the house and insisted on the raiders allowing her to rescue the books. By the end of the process, Elvery was directing the burning party to remove books, paintings, furniture, and, because it was Christmas eve, the children's presents.” portrait of Beatrice Elvery by William Orpen 1909

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Beatrice Glenavy (Elvery) (1881-1970, Irish) ~ By the Sea, n/d

[Source: deveres.ie]