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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.
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Photo taken with a pole and camranger.
My picture here just 'happened' and I love it. As soon as I saw it in the camera, I knew this was it.
For me, it brought to mind the saying "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". In other words, what I think is beautiful, you may not. In essence, there's a literal meaning - that the perception of beauty is subjective - what one person finds beautiful another may not.
In researching the word I learned that it was Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (née Hamilton) who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of 'The Duchess', who first wrote the actual line in 1878 "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Even before that, however, 16th century author William Shakespeare said "Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues". Then Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote: "Beauty, like supreme dominion, is but supported by opinion." David Hume in his Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, wrote "Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
To make things even more interesting, it seems the saying was known as far back as the 3rd century BC in Greece. Whoever thought that researching just one word could bring up so much interesting information?
The Guide
galvanized steel, acrylic LED light bar
— Phil Proctor (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
— installed: June 2022 (as part of the city-wide Decatur Artway public arts project)
Decatur (Sycamore Ridge), Georgia, USA.
24 June 2022.
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📍 "The Guide is a figurative work fabricated entirely from 8" I-beams. The figure stands in the classical contrapposto pose and holds an acrylic staff that illuminates his path through dark times."
— Phil Proctor.
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📷 Photographer's note:
Taken handheld (at 1/6 second), while lying on my back, looking up.
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▶ A different perspective (taken during the day): here.
▶ MARTA = Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.
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Moving Surfaces, a sculpture by Jill Anholt, at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa. Leicaflex, Summicron-R 50mm f2, Ilford XP2 Super. Scanned with Nikon D7000 and Sigma 150mm DG Macro.
Topping out at the crux of Corvus in the Lake District. Spotted the exceptionally stunning stone circle looking over the valley.
2022-05 Lakes-0410
I thought of the old movie, "Attack of The Killer Tomatoes", when I found this tomato in my garden with a deteriorating face and alien look. I love pareidolia anywhere you can find it. HSS!
It was one of the hottest days this year.
It still was in the evening/at night: 32°C / 90°F at 10 pm.
I think that I already long for winter.
And as we are told to expect some shortages of natural gas in December or so (no need to explain why) I already have one of my garages almost full of wood ready to be put in my fireplace and stove when need arises.
This is a sample of what is still waiting to be chopped and stashed in my basement maybe. One of these days, when it gets colder.
For now it is just something to shoot on the World Photography Day
(in lack of more interesting objects).
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Samsung NX10
and Silver Efex Pro 2
In this striking long exposure photograph, the beauty of St. Paul's Cathedral is elevated to a new level as the sun rises and casts a warm glow on the structure. The cathedral's reflection in the smooth surface of the water is mirrored perfectly, creating a stunning scene of symmetry and stillness. The long exposure allows the colours and details to come to life, as if you can feel the warmth and hear the stillness of the morning air. This image captures the timeless grandeur of the cathedral in a new and unique way, showcasing the power and majesty of both nature and architecture.
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The Chicago Theater is an historic movie palace in the city of Chicago. It's now used mostly as a live music venue, and has been restored to its original splendor. During a tour I noticed the stairs to the upper levels. Pointing my camera straight up, the curves of the bannisters created this graceful effect.
Explore #3 30/07/2022
Elegant isolation - An atmospheric misty dawn reveals the beautiful ruins of Kilchurn Castle reflected in the deafeningly silent and still Loch Awe; hauntingly beautiful in elegant isolation from its normally mountainous backdrop by the dawn mist rolling up the loch.
Dalmally, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Located in Northwest Cove, Nova Scotia, this home is one of several that make up this picturesque fishing village. It is one of many fishing communities that populate the South shore of NS.
This one light bulb keeps fascinating me.
It has an intricate network of filaments that is incredibly long, as it goes up and down along the central tower, in an eight point star pattern.
And it flickers ever so slightly, humming to the tune of passing seconds, in a warm, decent bright orange glow.
Off course I'm usually not using it outdoors, but for this week's Macro Mondays challenge, I've put it in front of the open window to have a nice expressive sky as a contrasting background.
Looking at it from the top and using a wide aperture makes for a mysterious glowing pattern...
The USAF Thunderbirds fly in formation this past Sunday at Airshow London. It was mostly an overcast day but the sun broke through during the highlight performance of the afternoon, illuminating the squadron of F16's on a backdrop of dark skies.
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Photo peint et éclairée par la lumière naturelle de bougies
An autumnal soft-tone macro still life shot in total darkness except 2 candles. Two apples and several mini red and golden apples from my bonsai trees.
Still life sperimentale in totale oscurità salvo due candele, macro "soft" e tante mele, grandi e bonsai, per festeggiare San Martino e, speriamo, il ritorno della primavera per una settimanina :-)
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