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[edit]Description1929 RELIGIOUS SHRINE AT THE JUNCTION OF REGINALD STREET AND GRAY STREET IN THE COOMBE AREA OF DUBLIN REF-103430 (17108484375).jpg |
I am currently in the process of photographing so called ‘Marian Statues’ in Dublin. My information was that there were at least 28 such statues in Dublin but I am now discovering that the story is a little bit more complicated than expected especially as there are often conflicting histories associated with every structure. I had believed that there was a Marian statue on Reginald Street. When I first saw it a few years ago it reminded of the Victorian Memorial Fountains in Dun Laoghaire, Belfast and Limerick but as I had not examined it in detail I assumed that it was a Marian Statue. I now know that the large canopied structure was originally built as a water fountain until the top was knocked off during the War of Independence. In 1929 the local community converted it into a Sacred Heart shrine [not a Marian Shrine] and then in 1979 it was rededicated for the Papal visit to Ireland.
“Restored to mark the visit of Pope John Paul II to the Liberties 29th Sept. 1975″ The houses in this part of the Coombe were built by Dublin Artisan Dwellings Company which is why they [and similar buildings in Dublin] are now known as ‘Artisan Dwellings’ or ‘Artisan Cottages’. The original structure was a public fountain, funded by Guinness. It may have been a memorial of Queen Victoria’s visit to Ireland in 1897 but it also had the very useful function of water fountain at a time when water was often contaminated and householders filled buckets from unsafe wells. According to some accounts the current structure is not original as it was replaced after the fountain had been demolished by a lorry. I do not know if the lorry accident and the War Of Independence incident were in fact the same event and to complicate the story even more some local historians maintain that pieces were shot off by British ‘Black And Tans’. NOTE: The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, passed by Parliament in 1829, was the culmination of the process of Catholic Emancipation throughout Britain. In Ireland it repealed the Test Act 1673 and the remaining Penal Laws which had been in force since the passing of the Disenfranchising Act of the Irish Parliament of 1728. Its passage followed a vigorous campaign on the issue by Irish lawyer Daniel O'Connell. O'Connell had firm support from the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, as well as from the Whigs and liberal Tories. |
Date | Taken on 10 April 2015, 12:21 |
Source | 1929 RELIGIOUS SHRINE AT THE JUNCTION OF REGINALD STREET AND GRAY STREET IN THE COOMBE AREA OF DUBLIN REF-103430 |
Author | William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland |
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Camera model | NEX-7 |
Author | William Murphy |
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F-number | f/4.5 |
ISO speed rating | 100 |
Date and time of data generation | 12:21, 10 April 2015 |
Lens focal length | 23 mm |
Label | Blue |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.5 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 13:33, 11 April 2015 |
Exposure Program | Portrait mode (for closeup photos with the background out of focus) |
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Date and time of digitizing | 12:21, 10 April 2015 |
APEX shutter speed | 9.321928 |
APEX aperture | 4.33985 |
APEX brightness | 9.23984375 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4 APEX (f/4) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, auto mode |
Color space | sRGB |
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Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 34 mm |
Scene capture type | Portrait |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Lens used | E 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OSS |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:33, 11 April 2015 |
Unique ID of original document | 0784CA61875181CB7984165E0368D328 |
Copyright status | Copyrighted |
Keywords | Infomatique |
Contact information | williamm@infomatique.org
www.streetsofdublin.com 29 Bolton Court, Bolton Street Dublin, , Dublin 1 Ireland |
IIM version | 4 |