Posts tagged ireland
History, Fashion, Romance and Deadpan Snarking.
I love how it’s been like three years since the guy fell on the ice in Dublin and people are still talking about it every time it gets a bit cold out
Candlelight vigil to commemorate Savita, on now at the opera house in cork.
mummies in the St Michan’s Church crypt (by Anosmia)
The vaults contain many mummified remains, including a 400-year-old nun, a six-and-a-half foot man popularly believed to have been a crusader, a body with its feet and right hand severed, and the Sheares brothers who took part in the 1798 rebellion. Legend says that Dracula was inspired by Bram Stoker’s childhood visits to St. Michan’s crypt.
Peeps
If you ever get the chance to study abroad, and you want to learn some archaeology, do this program. It will be the best experience of your life.
(via Crawford Municipal Art Gallery | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery (by amki222)
The organ at which Handel composed the Messiah, at St. Michan’s Church, Dublin, Ireland.
Bantry House (by Malcolm Craik)
Dear Santa Letter sent 100 years ago found up chimney
The Irish Times - Wed, Dec 21, 2011
IT MAY have been slightly scorched over the years but a letter to Santa written 100 years ago, which was later discovered in a Dublin fireplace, has the magic of Christmas written all over it.
On Christmas Eve 1911, a brother and sister, who signed their names, “A or H Howard”, penned their personally designed letter to Santa with their requests for gifts and a good luck message at their home in Oaklands Terrace, Terenure (or Terurnure, as the children spelled it) in Dublin.
They placed it in the chimney of the fireplace in the front bedroom so that Santa would see it as he made his way into the Howard household in the early hours of the morning.
Aula Maxima, UCC (by alchemikk)
