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“Sleep now a little while
Till within our dreams we wake
Unfolding our Forever
If only for Never’s sake
And take me to your ever after
Let’s hide behind our eyes
Together pour through that door
Where autumn never dies
And I’ll sift my sands to your side
Before we slip away
Before we’re little more than silt
Beneath the rocking waves
And side by side we’ll fight the tide
That sweeps in to take us down
And hand in hand we’ll both withstand
Even as we drown.” (Kelly Creagh)
Looking West along the South Shiel Ridge from Sgurr an Doire Leathain to Sgurr an Lochain and Creagh nan Damh
"Sleep now a little while
Till within our dreams we wake
Unfolding our Forever
If only for Never’s sake..."
Kelly Creagh, Enshadowed
Mercedes Axor & Actros Flats, Freelands Transport, Aberdeen & Creagh Concrete Products Ltd, Toomebridge, Co. Antrim.
The organ.
The first church on the site was built in the 11th century. This was replaced in 1210 by a Gothic Cathedral. Following the Irish Reformation, a new body was established by decree of the Irish Parliament to became the State Church in the Kingdom of Ireland. The Church of Ireland, as it was named, assumed possession of most church property (and so retained a great repository of religious architecture and other items, though some were later destroyed). The substantial majority of the population remained faithful to the Latin liturgy of Roman Catholicism, despite the political and economic advantages of membership in the state church. Since Christ Church Cathedral was taken over in this way, Roman Catholic adherents were consequently obliged to worship elsewhere.
In the 18th century, the city corporation recommended that the bishop erect a new building. The architect was John Roberts, who was responsible for much of Georgian Waterford.
During the demolition of the old cathedral, a series of medieval vestments were discovered in 1773. They were presented by the then Anglican bishop, the Rt Revd Richard Chenevix, to his Roman Catholic counterpart, the Most Revd Peter Creagh, and are now kept in the Museum of Treasures in Waterford and the National Museum in Dublin.
The present building has been described by architectural historian Mark Girouard as the finest 18th century ecclesiastical building in Ireland
My interest in this hut (at the foot of Buachaille Etive Mhor at the top end of Glencoe) was the initial reason for parking up and making the short hike from the road down to the river. I got across and had a look through the windows. Some raised sleeping platforms and a woodburner is all I could see inside, and it all looked rather dilapidated (sorry, "characterful"!)
After a bit of 'reading around' I think this is the old Creagh Dhu Mountaineering Club hut known as 'Jacksonville'. Is that right? I'd love to know more if anyone has any info..
Dandelion seed sprayed with a fine mist of water.
This is a shot I took using my Canon 40D using a Canon 100mm macro f2.8L IS USM lens.
I processed the raw shot in Lightroom 2 and adjusted the colour to give the vibrant green. In PS I adjusted the levels a bit and gave it a 10mp sharpen.
I hope you like it?
Mercedes Actros Cement Mixer
New - April 2006
Pictured crossing the River Maine at Randalstown County Antrim.
Mercedes Arocs Tipper
New - December 2015
Pictured on the A29 Tobermore Road, Maghera County Londonderry.
The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
Boston
Estes and Lauriat
Seen at the antique mall in Klipsan Beach, Washington
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William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta,[1] British India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864), was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.[2] His father was a grandson of Thomas Thackeray (1693–1760), headmaster of Harrow School.[3]
Richmond died in 1815, which caused Anne to send her son to England that same year, while she remained in India. The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at Saint Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him.
Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became a close friend of John Leech. Thackeray disliked Charterhouse,[4] and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse".
Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six-foot three, postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829.[citation needed]
Never too keen on academic studies, Thackeray left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman.[5]
Thackeray then travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple, but soon gave that up.
On reaching the age of 21 he came into his inheritance from his father, but he squandered much of it on gambling and on funding two unsuccessful newspapers, The National Standard and The Constitutional, for which he had hoped to write. He also lost a good part of his fortune in the collapse of two Indian banks. Forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in Paris, but did not pursue it, except in later years as the illustrator of some of his own novels and other writings.[citation needed]
Thackeray's years of semi-idleness ended after he married, on 20 August 1836, Isabella Gethin Shawe (1816–1894), second daughter of Isabella Creagh Shawe and Matthew Shawe, a colonel who had died after distinguished service, primarily in India. The Thackerays had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella (1837–1919), Jane (who died at eight months old) and Harriet Marian (1840–1875), who married Sir Leslie Stephen, editor, biographer and philosopher.
Thackeray now began "writing for his life", as he put it, turning to journalism in an effort to support his young family. He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon.
Between 1837 and 1840 he also reviewed books for The Times.[6] He was also a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle and The Foreign Quarterly Review. Later, through his connection to the illustrator John Leech, he began writing for the newly created magazine Punch, in which he published The Snob Papers, later collected as The Book of Snobs. This work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob".[7] Thackeray was a regular contributor to Punch between 1843 and 1854.[8]
Tragedy struck in Thackeray's personal life as his wife, Isabella, succumbed to depression after the birth of their third child, in 1840. Finding that he could get no work done at home, he spent more and more time away until September 1840, when he realised how grave his wife's condition was.
Struck by guilt, he set out with his wife to Ireland. During the crossing she threw herself from a water-closet into the sea, but she was pulled from the waters. They fled back home after a four-week battle with her mother. From November 1840 to February 1842 Isabella was in and out of professional care, as her condition waxed and waned.[3]
She eventually deteriorated into a permanent state of detachment from reality. Thackeray desperately sought cures for her, but nothing worked, and she ended up in two different asylums in or near Paris until 1845, after which Thackeray took her back to England, where he installed her with a Mrs Bakewell at Camberwell.
Isabella outlived her husband by 30 years, in the end being cared for by a family named Thompson in Leigh-on-Sea at Southend until her death in 1894.[9] After his wife's illness Thackeray became a de facto widower, never establishing another permanent relationship. He did pursue other women, however, in particular Mrs Jane Brookfield and Sally Baxter. In 1851 Mr Brookfield barred Thackeray from further visits to or correspondence with Jane. Baxter, an American twenty years Thackeray's junior whom he met during a lecture tour in New York City in 1852, married another man in 1855.[citation needed]
In the early 1840s Thackeray had some success with two travel books, The Paris Sketch Book and The Irish Sketch Book, the latter marked by its hostility towards Irish Catholics. However, as the book appealed to anti-Irish sentiment in Britain at the time,
Thackeray was given the job of being Punch's Irish expert, often under the pseudonym Hibernis Hibernior ("more Irish than the Irish").[8] Thackeray became responsible for creating Punch's notoriously hostile and negative depictions of the Irish during the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to 1851.[8]
Thackeray achieved more recognition with his Snob Papers (serialised 1846/7, published in book form in 1848), but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847. Even before Vanity Fair completed its serial run Thackeray had become a celebrity, sought after by the very lords and ladies whom he satirised. They hailed him as the equal of Charles Dickens.[10]
Portrait of Thackeray in his study, c.1860
He remained "at the top of the tree", as he put it, for the rest of his life, during which he produced several large novels, notably Pendennis, The Newcomes and The History of Henry Esmond, despite various illnesses, including a near-fatal one that struck him in 1849 in the middle of writing Pendennis. He twice visited the United States on lecture tours during this period. Thackeray also gave lectures in London on the English humorists of the eighteenth century, and on the first four Hanoverian monarchs. The latter series was published in book form as The Four Georges.[3]
In July 1857 Thackeray stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for the city of Oxford in Parliament.[3] Although not the most fiery agitator, Thackeray was always a decided liberal in his politics, and he promised to vote for the ballot in extension of the suffrage, and was ready to accept triennial parliaments.[3] He was narrowly beaten by Cardwell, who received 1,070 votes, as against 1,005 for Thackeray.[3]
In 1860 Thackeray became editor of the newly established Cornhill Magazine,[11] but he was never comfortable in the role, preferring to contribute to the magazine as the writer of a column called "Roundabout Papers".[citation needed]
Thackeray's health worsened during the 1850s and he was plagued by a recurring stricture of the urethra that laid him up for days at a time. He also felt that he had lost much of his creative impetus.
He worsened matters by excessive eating and drinking, and avoiding exercise, though he enjoyed riding (he kept a horse).
He has been described as "the greatest literary glutton who ever lived". His main activity apart from writing was "gutting and gorging".[12] He could not break his addiction to spicy peppers, further ruining his digestion.
A granite, horizontal gravestone fenced by metal railings, among other graves in a cemetery
Thackeray's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, photographed in 2014
On 23 December 1863, after returning from dining out and before dressing for bed, he suffered a stroke. He was found dead in his bed the following morning.
His death at the age of fifty-two was entirely unexpected, and shocked his family, his friends and the reading public. An estimated 7,000 people attended his funeral at Kensington Gardens. He was buried on 29 December at Kensal Green Cemetery, and a memorial bust sculpted by Marochetti can be found in Westminster Abbey.[3]
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Klipsan Beach, Washington.
Mary Creagh MP (Labour) looking very neat in a stylish leather dress for an event in parliament on September 2017. She was a very effective chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee. Unfortunately she lost her seat in the recent general election.
The 7th. Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army that saw distinguished active service during World War II, where its exploits in the Western Desert Campaign gained it the 'Desert Rats' nickname.
After the Munich Crisis, elements of what would become the 7th. Armoured Division arrived in the Middle East in 1938 to increase British strength in Egypt and form a 'Mobile Force'. The Mobile Force, initially the 'Matruh Mobile Force,' was established on the coast some 120 miles (190 km) west of Alexandria. It was formed from the Cairo Cavalry Brigade and comprised four armoured regiments, 7th. Queen's Own Hussars, 8th. King's Royal Irish Hussars, 11th. Hussars and 1st. Royal Tank Regiment and supported by the 3rd. Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, a company of the Royal Army Service Corps and a Field Ambulance unit. The 1st. Batt. King's Royal Rifle Corps then joined from Burma. These were the first of many units to serve as part of the Division. The Divisions first commander, Major-Gen. Percy Hobart, was an armoured warfare expert and he saw that his troops were properly prepared to fight in the desert despite being poorly equipped. The division was meant to be equipped with 220 tanks, however, at the outbreak of the Second World War the 'Mobile Force' only had 65. On 16th. Feb. 1940, the Mobile Division, which had changed names during the middle of 1939 to be called the Armoured Division became the 7th. Armoured Division.
After the Italian declaration of war, the Western Desert Force was massively outnumbered by the Italian Army, however they had WW1 artillery, no armoured cars and very few anti-tank weapons. As such, it proved to be no match for the British who captured 130,000 Italian POW's between Dec. 1940 and Feb. 1941. The Italians had proven so weak that Hitler was forced to send the Afrika Korps, under Gen. Erwin Rommel as reinforcements.
The British and Germans fought at Tobruk in 1941, First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942 and the Second Battle of El Alamein in Oct./Nov. 1942, which turned the tide of the war in North Africa against the Germans. The fighting in North Africa came to an end in May 1943 with almost 250,000 Axis soldiers surrendering to the Allies and becoming POW's.
The Division did participate in the early stages of the Italian Campaign and came ashore at Salerno on 15th. Sept. 1943 to help repel heavy German counterattacks. Later it was part of the force that took Naples.
On the wishes of the British Eighth Army commander, Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery, the 7th. Armoured Division was recalled to the UK to prepare for the invasion of North Western Europe with the British Second Army. The 7th. Armoured handing over its battered vehicles and equipment to the recently arrived 5th. Canadian (Armoured) Division and left Italy in late Dec. 1943, arriving in Glasgow in early Jan. 1944.
The Division was stationed in Thetford Forest between Jan. and May 1944 while they prepared for D-Day. The Division sailed from Felixstowe on 5th. June with their first tanks landing on Gold Beach on the evening of 6th. June. They participated in Battle for Caenn
and after the Battle of the Falaise Gap, which saw most of the German Army in Normandy destroyed, they took part in the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine. Following the advance across France, the Division took part in the Allied advance through Belgium and the Netherlands, liberating Ghent on 6th. Sept. and securing the River Maas.
The division had a short rest for training in late Feb. 1945. This was followed by Operation Plunder; with the 7th. Armoured Division crossed the River Rhine near Xanten and Wesel and advanced on the German city of Hamburg, where the division ended the war. On 16th. April 1945, the Division liberated Stalag 11B in Fallingbostel, which was the first POW camp to be liberated. The 7th. Armoured Division's final battle of the war was the Battle of Hamburg. In July 1945 the 7th. Armoured Division moved to Berlin where it took part in the Berlin Victory Parade alongside American, French and Russian troops.
The Division remained in Germany as part of the occupation forces and then into the 1950's as part of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), standing watch against the Warsaw Pact. As the British Army became smaller, its higher numbered divisions were removed from the order of battle. The Division's long and illustrious career finally came to an end in this fashion in April 1958, when it was converted into 5th. Division. However, the traditions and iconic 'Desert Rats' nickname of the Division were maintained by 7th. Armoured Brigade, which formed part of 1st. Armoured Division. In 2014 the end of an era was announced by the MoD. As part of the reorganisation of the British Army, the 7th. Armoured Brigade would cease to exist and become the 7th. Infantry Brigade. The new Brigade will continue to wear the Jerboa and carry on the traditions of the Desert Rats, but the reorganisation effectively means that after over 74 years of existence there will no longer be a 7th. Armoured Brigade in the British Army.
The nickname was coined by the first divisional commander, Major-Gen. Percy Hobart on a visit to Maaten Bagush. There he met Rea Leakey, then GSO 3 Intelligence, who had a pet jerboa, or 'desert rat'. Hobart took to the animal and decided to adopt 'The Desert Rats' as a nickname for the division. The shoulder flash was designed by the wife of his successor, Major-Gen. Michael O'Moore Creagh, using a jerboa from Cairo Zoo as a model. The resulting shoulder patches were made of scarlet thread. These were unofficial, the War Office did not adopt the flashes until the summer of 1943 and then redesigned them to look, in the opinion of Leakey, more like a kangaroo than a jerboa. The colour was also changed to black.
On 23rd. October 1998 this memorial to the Division, featuring a Cromwell Mk.IV tank was dedicated at Mundford, in Thetford Forest, Norfolk, by Field Marshall Lord Carver, who served with 1st. Royal Tank Regiment with the Division in 1944 and later Commanded 4th. Armoured Brigade. The Division's six months at Thetford Forest was the only time in it's entire existence that it was stationed in the UK.
Citybus (Metro) Belfast Volvo B7TL ALX 400 Fleet Number 2971 is seen on the Creagh road east Belfast on a short working to Bells Bridge on route 6a
Mercedes Axor 2633 Cement Mixer
New - August 2007
Pictured on the A29 Tobermore Road, Maghera County Londonderry
"You're a dream. Like everything else."
Kelly Creagh, Nevermore
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Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realise they were big things.
With a skip in my step I happily spent a couple of hours playing taxi driver to 2 of my children, and working out how I was going to have a bit of fun with my new lens. Please forgive me…it’s one of those dandelion & water drops images , but it’s something you must try out with the macro lens) The water was in fact rose water. The rooms smells divine now. :-)
Equipment: Canon 40D, Canon 100mm macro f2.8L ISM lens
Converted to B&W in Lightroom 2 and a touch of texture to the side, added in Photoshop CS3
Mary Creagh is another Labour MP who has worn a leather dress in Parliament. Here she wore the dress for an interview on BBC television on 20 March 2017. She was a very effective chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee. Unfortunately she lost her seat in the recent general election.
A party post-holing through deep snow towards the climbing cliffs of Creag Meagaidh
(Fujichrome 100, Olympus XA-2)
The Bowers Walk, which dates back to the 1800s is a two-mile walkway from the town of Ballinrobe along the River Robe, past historic sites like the old Cavalry Barracks and Cranmore House. The Bowers walk originally formed part if an elaborate engineering undertaking that envisaged the linking of Ballinrobe to Galway by means of canals. The River Robe was to be canalised from Ballinrobe to Lough Mask and a huge channel excavated between Lough Mask and Lough Corrib. This would allow trading between Galway and Castlebar, which isn’t that far from Ballinrobe.
The scheme to construct the channel system was abandoned in 1856 due to the lack of funding from the government of the day and also due to the fact the railways were fast replacing the waterways as a means of transport. The present structure was built in 1849. Bollards and mooring rings are still the same as they were when first constructed.
The waterflow from the Bulcaun River was diverted to feed the mill & brewery. The brewery was in full action in 1859 and there were twelve people employed there. The product was single X porter and it had a large sale in South Mayo and North Galway. The brewery was let to a man named Livingston who came from Westport. He also looked after the Flour Mill.The channel, now dry, still exists and can be seen on the far bank.
The Military Bridge, which you pass under, was constructed at this time. The building beyond the bridge was the Cavalry Barracks, which originally was Ballinrobe Castle. It was constructed in the 13th century by the De Burgos. The walk ends at Creagh Road.
Reilig an tSléibhe: This is the famine graveyard in the Waterford Gaeltacht, it is located in An Seanphobal, off the N25 from Dungarvan to Cork just before An Seanachaí pub.
The field itself was owned by the Villiers-Stuart family and was opened in 1847 for the purposes of burying victims of the famine after other burial sites in Dungarvan became full. Henry Villiers-Stuart was chairperson of the Board of Guardians who ran the workhouse at the time.
There are possibly 3 mass graves in the field that were used to cope with the large numbers and as the deaths declined, it is believed single graves were dug. The corpses were brought by pony and trap from the town along what would have been the old Cork road.
A Mr Fitzgerald made this journey with his cart up to three times a day. A Mr Barron was also in charge of the burials. Currently, it is not known how many were buried there but there are certainly 100s if not up to 1000. Officialdom, at the time, had such disregard for the inmates of the workhouse, they only had a number and no names were recorded. Many literally had to dig their own graves a matter of days before they themselves would be tipped in. They were buried without coffins or even shrouds.
There is a local story of a young baby that was about to be buried with a number of other corpses and just before the cart was tipped in, she left out a loud cry. That child emigrated to America and lived into her 90s.
An Seanachaí, which is located beside the graveyard obtained its first licence in 1845, issued to John Ketts. The public house was originally established to provide food and drink for the gravediggers and the Kett family were caretakers of the graveyard in the immediate aftermath of the famine.
A wooden cross was erected in the middle of the field soon after the famine but this had reportedly crumbled well before 1943. In 1953 the 16 ft limestone cross, which still stands on the site, was erected to commemorate the Holy year and a small inscription was included to mention the famine victims.
In 1995 for the 150th commemoration of the famine, a new memorial was created which was inscribed with part of Máire Ní Dhroma's poem, Na Prátaí Dubha. Also to be seen at the site is a solitary figure in mourning, at the side of the field. This sculpture was created by Seán Creagh; he died before it was complete and so the fibreglass structure that would have been used to create the mould for the final piece was erected instead.
There are depressions in the surface of the field that are most likely the burial sites of the mass graves and the single interments. None of the graves are marked in any way. Within the field there is also a headstone where G. R. Jacobs from the HMT Bradford is buried. He died at sea in 1916.
Camera: Contax G1 + Carl Zeiss 28mm f2.8 Biogon lens
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