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Our Lady of Gyor (opens the original)
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On St Patrick’s Day 1697, Mass was being celebrated at 6am in the Cathedral of Gyor in Hungary. Many were present and observed a bloody sweat to come over the figure of Our Lady in a painting which was known as “Our Lady of Consolation” or “The Irish Madonna”. When the painting was wiped and the blood removed by linen cloths, the sweat broke out again and continued for three hours. Crowds began to rush to the church. The painting was removed from its place in the presence of the crowd. “It is im
Cinema heritage (opens the original)
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On Monday, February 28, 1898, there was an exhibition in Mr Mack’s Assembly Rooms of a new device called the Cinematograph, which could show ‘living pictures’ or ‘moving pictures’ — movies as we would know them today, In 1909, The Original Animated Picture Company brought their cinematography performance and variety entertainments to the Racquet Court, animated pictures showing a variety of films such as Boxing Champions, Logging in Sweden, The Pony Express, etc with no exasperating delays. "The
Yeats’s return (opens the original)
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William Butler Yeats died in the Hotel Idéal Beauséjoue in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in France on the January 28, 1939 aged 73. His wife Georgie and himself had often discussed his death, and he told her, “If I die, bury me up there at Roquebrune and in a year’s time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” His funeral was a discreet and private affair. His body was later exhumed and removed to the ossuary. Because of the outbreak of the war, it was not possible to br
As others saw us (opens the original)
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Last week we showed you some very well researched watercolours of Galway painted in the late 1830s by William Evans of Eton. He had made many careful studies of the types and colours of the clothing worn by native Galwegians, especially the women; of the different types of baskets they wove; the traditional everyday tools and equipment they used such as sleáns, milk churns, cooking pots and spinning wheels; the types of traditional boats they sailed. We have two very different types of illustrat
William Evans’ watercolour studies of Galway (opens the original)
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William Evans of Eton (1798-1877 ) was the drawing master of Eton College in England and an accomplished artist who exhibited widely in London, Dublin, and Paris. He made several visits to the west of Ireland in 1835 and 1838, where he produced many studies and finished watercolours, mostly of Counties Galway and Mayo, a mixture of picturesque landscapes, market and street scenes, and what might be called peasant structures and peasant portraits. Although some were of Galway city, many of his pi
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