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The Camo Shorts and Sleeveless Shirts Leonel Set from E. Vary and Mangula. Styled with Army Helmet from [The Forge] , Dirty Black Shoes from CA Caligula, Machine Gun from [MA] MeshAddiction, Daniel Bento Head from Catwa, Gianni Bento Body from Signature and Appliers from Stray Dog.
As April rolls on toward May, there’s hope, at least, that tourists will soon no longer need coats to take a boat ride, though one can never really be certain here. This shot of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue DuSable Bridge looks north from the south side of the Chicago River.
For Our Daily Challenge: Hope; and for Fence Friday. Depending on how one counts, there are at least eight separate fences visible in this image.
HFF!
Onward and upward. Looking eastward towards Winshield Crag my main destination for today I took this photo to show the contrast of the photo I took looking westward a couple of minutes before (Moody sky). Well the cameras out and on a tripod, why not.
Yosemite Valley, Yosemite, California
Autumn rains from a few years ago have swollen the Merced River, now just barely contained within its banks. We’re standing on the El Capitan Bridge looking towards Middle Cathedral Rock. The river takes a right turn to flow past Lower Cathedral Rock and then out of the valley.
One of the things I love about hiking is that perspective and light changes the view. Thus the return trip can almost seem like a different trail. The trail to Observation Point in Zion National Park passes through amazing displays of geology which are a wonder to see coming and going.
To my wonderful friends on Flickr:- I'm away for a week from today. Hope you have a great week and thanks for all your support!
Brakeman Steve Bratina mans the switch at AOC looking onward as the conductor makes the joint on a loaded maleic acid tank car.
Fishing Vessel undergoing repairs on the slipway at Bridlington Harbour, Different angle as seen on previous Photo.
Three days left in 2025 and three more images in my year in review series, starting with this mule deer doe climbing a hill in Badlands National Park.
In October we make our second trip of the year to western South Dakota, visiting three fantastic parks...Badlands NP, Custer State Park and Wind Cave NP.
The three parks offer some dramatic landscapes and abundant wildlife. Hard to beat that combination, make the trip twice every year.
Hey guys got back from my trip to Florida Sea Base. That camp is super cool and if you are in scouting I highly recommend that you go there at least once during your time as a scout. I had an absolute blast sailing the Keys!
In other news, gave this Murican right here some detailed upgrades. Tiny tactical, painting, netting, bunch o stuff...
Enjoy!
Pentax MX / Fujifilm Acros Pro II
Look up Johnny Franco wherever you get music to hear this talented Brazillian/Pacific Northwest musician.
Poznan, Poland
ulica. Podgórna
Winter/Dawn
I love this view during the sunrise when the sun is coming up behind the Cathedral in the distance. So beautiful!
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Kilmainham Gaol (Irish: Príosún Chill Mhaighneann) is a former prison in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland. It is now a museum run by the Office of Public Works, an agency of the Government of Ireland. Many Irish revolutionaries, including the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, were imprisoned and executed in the prison by the orders of the UK Government.When it was first built in 1796, Kilmainham Gaol was called the "New Gaol" to distinguish it from the old prison it was intended to replace – a noisome dungeon, just a few hundred metres from the present site. It was officially called the County of Dublin Gaol, and was originally run by the Grand Jury for County Dublin.
Originally, public hangings took place at the front of the prison. However, from the 1820s onward very few hangings, public or private, took place at Kilmainham. A small hanging cell was built in the prison in 1891. It is located on the first floor, between the west wing and the east wing.
There was no segregation of prisoners; men, women and children were incarcerated up to 5 in each cell, with only a single candle for light and heat. Most of their time was spent in the cold and the dark, and each candle had to last for two weeks. Its cells were roughly 28 square metres in area.
Children were sometimes arrested for petty theft, the youngest said to be a seven-year-old child, while many of the adult prisoners were transported to Australia.
At Kilmainham, the poor conditions in which women prisoners were kept provided the spur for the next stage of development. As early as 1809, in his report, the Inspector had observed that male prisoners were supplied with iron bedsteads while females "lay on straw on the flags in the cells and common halls". Half a century later there was little improvement. The women's section, located in the west wing, remained overcrowded. In an attempt to relieve the overcrowding, 30 female cells were added to the Gaol in 1840. These improvements had not been made long before the Great Famine occurred, and Kilmainham was overwhelmed with the increase of prisoners.
Kilmainham Gaol was decommissioned as a prison by the Irish Free State government in 1924. Seen principally as a site of oppression and suffering, there was at this time no declared interest in its preservation as a monument to the struggle for national independence. The jail's potential function as a location of national memory was also undercut and complicated by the fact that the first four Republican prisoners executed by the Free State government during the Irish Civil War were shot in the prison yard.
The Irish Prison Board contemplated reopening it as a prison during the 1920s but all such plans were finally abandoned in 1929. In 1936 the government considered the demolition of the prison but the price of this undertaking was seen as prohibitive. Republican interest in the site began to develop from the late 1930s, most notably with the proposal by the National Graves Association, a Republican organisation, to preserve the site as both a museum and memorial to the 1916 Easter Rising. This proposal received no objections from the Commissioners of Public Works, who costed it at £600, and negotiations were entered into with the Department of Education about the possibility of relocating artefacts relating to the 1916 Rising housed in the National Museum to a new museum at the Kilmainham Gaol site. The Department of Education rejected this proposal seeing the site as unsuitable for this purpose and suggested instead that paintings of nationalist leaders could be installed in appropriate prison cells. However, with the advent of the Emergency the proposal was shelved for the duration of the war.
An architectural survey commissioned by the Office of Public Works after World War II revealed that the prison was in a ruinous condition. With the Department of Education still intransigent to the site's conversion to a nationalist museum and with no other apparent function for the building, the Commissioners of Public Works proposed only the prison yard and those cell blocks deemed to be of national importance should be preserved and that the rest of the site should be demolished. This proposal was not acted upon.
In 1953 the Department of the Taoiseach, as part of a scheme to generate employment, re-considered the proposal of the National Graves Association to restore the prison and establish a museum at the site. However, no advance was made and the material condition of the prison continued to deteriorate.
From the late 1950s, a grassroots movement for the preservation of Kilmainham Gaol began to develop. Provoked by reports that the Office of Public Works was accepting tenders for the demolition of the building, Lorcan C.G. Leonard, a young engineer from the north side of Dublin, along with a small number of like-minded nationalists, formed the Kilmainham Gaol Restoration Society in 1958. In order to offset any potential division among its members, the society agreed that they should not address any of the events connected with the Civil War period in relation to the restoration project. Instead, a narrative of the unified national struggle was to be articulated. A scheme was then devised that the prison should be restored and a museum built using voluntary labour and donated materials.
With momentum for the project growing, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions informed the society that they would not oppose their plan and the Building Trades Council gave it their support. It is also likely that Dublin Corporation, which had shown an interest in the preservation of the prison, supported the proposal. At this time the Irish government was coming under increasing pressure from the National Graves Association and the Old IRA Literary and Debating Society to take action to preserve the site. Thus, when the society submitted their plan in late 1958 the government looked favourably on a proposal that would achieve this goal without occasioning any significant financial commitment from the state.
In February 1960 the society's detailed plan for the restoration project, which notably also envisioned the site's development as a tourist attraction, received the approval of the notoriously parsimonious Department of Finance. The formal handing over of prison keys to a board of trustees, composed of five members nominated by the society and two by the government, occurred in May 1960. The trustees were charged a nominal rent of one penny rent per annum to extend for a period of five years at which point it was envisaged that the restored prison would be permanently transferred to the trustees' custodial care.
Commencing with a workforce of sixty volunteers in May 1960, the society set about clearing the overgrown vegetation, trees, fallen masonry and bird droppings from the site. By 1962 the symbolically important prison yard where the leaders of the 1916 Rising were executed had been cleared of rubble and weeds and the restoration of the Victorian section of the prison was nearing completion. It opened to the public on 10 April 1966. The final restoration of the site was completed in 1971 when Kilmainham Gaol chapel was re-opened to the public having been reroofed and re-floored and with its altar reconstructed. The Magill family acted as residential caretakers, in particular, Joe Magill who worked on the restoration of the gaol from the start until the Gaol was handed over to the Office of Public works.
It now houses a museum on the history of Irish nationalism and offers guided tours of the building. An art gallery on the top floor exhibits paintings, sculptures and jewellery of prisoners incarcerated in prisons all over contemporary Ireland.
Kilmainham Gaol is one of the biggest unoccupied prisons in Europe. Now empty of prisoners, it is filled with history.
In 2013, Kilmainham courthouse located beside the prison, which had remained in operation as a seat of the Dublin District court until 2008 was handed over to the OPW for refurbishment as part of a broader redevelopment of the Gaol and the surrounding Kilmainham Plaza in advance of the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. The courthouse opened in 2015 as the attached visitor's centre for the Gaol.
When we left the car the temperature was a balmy 6 degrees. We hiked most of the day in sunlight, though a thin cloud layer appeared in the afternoon. The high temperature was a scorching 22 degrees at the hut on the top. when we returned to the car it was 14 degrees.
American Oystercatcher parent is gathering its chicks during the sandstorm conditions.
{ Ostrygojad brunatny, Haematopus palliatus }
Long Island, New York.
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