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Showing posts with label Co Kildare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Co Kildare. Show all posts
29 October 2024

Daily prayer in Ordinary Time 2024:
172, Wednesday 30 October 2024

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‘Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last’ (Luke 13: 30) … ‘Punchestown Conyngham Cup, 1872, The Double’...
19 July 2022

How James Joyce refers
to Penny Mordaunt’s family
in ‘Portrait of the Artist’

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Clongowes Wood College, Co Kildare … James Joyce’s contemporaries included Patrick Rath, who makes passing appearances in ‘Portrait of the A...
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12 June 2022

Praying with the Psalms on Trinity Sunday:
12 June 2022 (Psalm 109)

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‘Do not be silent, O God of my praise’ (Psalm 109: 1) … ‘A Thoughtful Silence’ by Eleanor Swan, in Glazed Stoneware, the Kildare Gallery at ...
02 April 2021

Poems for Holy Week 2021:
6, Katharine Tynan, ‘All in an April Evening’

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‘Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world’ … the Byzantine-style crucifix by Laurence King (1907-1981) in the crypt of...
12 January 2021

Saint Mary’s: The Parish Church that Looks Like Part of the College

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St Mary’s Church, Maynooth (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020) Patrick Comerford St Mary’s, the Church of Ireland parish church in M...
04 June 2019

Martinstown House, a design
influenced by the cottage orné
fashion and Strawberry Hill

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Martinstown House … one of the few Irish houses designed by the 19th century architect Decimus Burton (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019)...
03 June 2019

Saint Brigid’s Cathedral,
Kildare, stands on a site
over 1500 years old

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Saint Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare … Victorian critics said George Edmund Street’s restoration had spoilt ‘a beautiful ruin’ (Photograph: Pa...
29 May 2018

Harbour House and Duke’s
Harbour: part of Maynooth’s
Georgian past and elegance

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Harbour House or Bean House … a reminder of the Georgian elegance of Maynooth, Co Kildare (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018) Patrick ...