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The origins of the cathedral are related to the construction in 445 of a stone church on the Druim Saileach (Willow Ridge) hill by St. Patrick, around which a monastic community developed.[2] The church was historically the centre of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. The cathedral and its assets were appropriated by the state church, called the Church of Ireland, as part of the Protestant Reformation in Ireland. The English government under King Henry VIII of England transferred the assets. It has remained in Anglican hands since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. A Roman Catholic cathedral, also called St Patrick's Cathedral, was built on a neighbouring hill in the nineteenth century. Cordial relations exist between both cathedral chapters.

 

The church itself has been destroyed and rebuilt 17 times. The edifice was renovated and restored under Dean Eoghan McCawell (1505–1549) at the start of the sixteenth century having suffered from a devastating fire in 1511 and being in poor shape. Soon after his death the cathedral was described by Lord Chancellor Cusack as ‘one of the fairest and best churches in Ireland’.[3] Again it was substantially restored between 1834 and 1840 by Archbishop Lord John George Beresford and the architect Lewis Nockalls Cottingham. The fabric remains that of the mediaeval building but much restored. While Cottingham was heavy-handed in his restoration, the researches of T. G. F. Patterson and Janet Myles in the late twentieth century have shown the restoration to have been notably antiquarian for its time. The tracery of the nave windows in particular are careful restorations as is the copy of the font. The capital decoration of the two westernmost pillars of the nave (either side of the West Door internal porch) are mediaeval as are the bulk of the external gargoyle carvings (some resited) of the parapet of the Eastern Arm. Cottingham's intention of retaining the richly-cusped West Door with flanking canopied niches was over-ruled. Subsequent restorations have more radically altered the internal proportions of the mediaeval building, proportions which Cottingham had retained.

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Models: Alita Moxham & Ayleish Cusack

Irlanda - Dunsany - Castillo Killeen

 

ENGLISH:

 

Killeen Castle, located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180. The current building is a restoration of a largely 19th century construction, burnt out in 1981. Killeen was built as one of a pair of castles either side of a major roadway north, the other being the extant Dunsany Castle. The demesne contains the castle itself, a substantial stable yard, a church (sometimes, incorrectly, called "Killeen Abbey"), a holy well (the "Lady Well") a pond, a walled garden and other features. The church, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was erected around 1425, is in the Gothic style and has an adjacent cemetery. It is preserved as a National Monument.

 

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ESPAÑOL:

 

En la localidad de Dunsany, condado de Meath, hay una propiedad que hoy está orientada al turismo pero que se alza en el sitio donde estuvo un antiguo castillo. El edificio actual, que se ha convertido en un hotel de lujo después de una gran restauración, en realidad era una mansión típica del siglo XIX. Pero se quemó en 1981 así que tuvo que ser reconstruida. El castillo que solía estar aquí servía para proteger la ruta del norte y no era el único en la zona pues el Castillo Dunsany mismo está todavía muy cerca. Parece que el castillo original era una fortaleza normanda constuida por la familia de Lacy que después pasó a manos de la familia Cusack y finalmente cayó en la familia Plunkett. Pero fue uno de los Cusack quien en el siglo XII construyó sobre el castillo normando el Castillo Killen mismo. Parece que tenía cuatro altas torres de cinco pisos cada una, murallas, escaleras de madera muy altas, puertas angostas y que estaba construido sobre una loma. Cuando, por matrimonio, el castillo pasó a la familia Plunket, primeros barones de Killeen y ya no lores, la propiedad se divide en dos: a un hijo le toca el Castillo Dunsany y al otro el Castillo Kileen. El castillo decayó en el siglo XVIII y debió ser restaurado en el siglo XIX pero gran parte fue demolido y vuelto a construir siguiendo un stilo que recordaba al Castillo de Windsor. Finalmente el último miembro de los Plunkett, entonces Conde de Fingall, lo vendió en 1955 y por mucho tiempo el sitio funcionó como stud de caballos. En 1981 alguien lo incendió y fue abandonado por muchos años hasta que en 1989 las tierras se vendieron de nuevo y empezó a construirse el hotel de lujo.

 

Irlanda - Dunsany - Castillo Killeen

 

ENGLISH:

 

Killeen Castle, located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180. The current building is a restoration of a largely 19th century construction, burnt out in 1981. Killeen was built as one of a pair of castles either side of a major roadway north, the other being the extant Dunsany Castle. The demesne contains the castle itself, a substantial stable yard, a church (sometimes, incorrectly, called "Killeen Abbey"), a holy well (the "Lady Well") a pond, a walled garden and other features. The church, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was erected around 1425, is in the Gothic style and has an adjacent cemetery. It is preserved as a National Monument.

 

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ESPAÑOL:

 

En la localidad de Dunsany, condado de Meath, hay una propiedad que hoy está orientada al turismo pero que se alza en el sitio donde estuvo un antiguo castillo. El edificio actual, que se ha convertido en un hotel de lujo después de una gran restauración, en realidad era una mansión típica del siglo XIX. Pero se quemó en 1981 así que tuvo que ser reconstruida. El castillo que solía estar aquí servía para proteger la ruta del norte y no era el único en la zona pues el Castillo Dunsany mismo está todavía muy cerca. Parece que el castillo original era una fortaleza normanda constuida por la familia de Lacy que después pasó a manos de la familia Cusack y finalmente cayó en la familia Plunkett. Pero fue uno de los Cusack quien en el siglo XII construyó sobre el castillo normando el Castillo Killen mismo. Parece que tenía cuatro altas torres de cinco pisos cada una, murallas, escaleras de madera muy altas, puertas angostas y que estaba construido sobre una loma. Cuando, por matrimonio, el castillo pasó a la familia Plunket, primeros barones de Killeen y ya no lores, la propiedad se divide en dos: a un hijo le toca el Castillo Dunsany y al otro el Castillo Kileen. El castillo decayó en el siglo XVIII y debió ser restaurado en el siglo XIX pero gran parte fue demolido y vuelto a construir siguiendo un stilo que recordaba al Castillo de Windsor. Finalmente el último miembro de los Plunkett, entonces Conde de Fingall, lo vendió en 1955 y por mucho tiempo el sitio funcionó como stud de caballos. En 1981 alguien lo incendió y fue abandonado por muchos años hasta que en 1989 las tierras se vendieron de nuevo y empezó a construirse el hotel de lujo.

 

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2020

 

Models: Bella Lee-Ball & Ayleish Cusack

When I saw this record shop on a corner in Soho, I couldn't help thinking of Nick Hornby's novel, "High Fidelity." The book was made into a movie starring John Cusack, as the rather lost and bumbling owner of both a failing record store, and a hopelessly plummeting personal life.

 

I remember Rod's Records in San Carlos. It was a dusty, cluttered shop where you could find just about any vinyl record ever made. The owner was a conservative, caught-up-in-his-views kind of guy who droned on and on about the harshness of digital sound vs. the old analog LPs. I'm sure he cringes at current technology, where music is streamed to our ears through electronic devices.

 

Rod's folded years ago, and I admit to missing a casual hour here and there, spent browsing through its eccentric collection of music. Selling vinyl records for a living is a definite iffy proposition these days.

 

I have an uncle who used to tell me, "if you don't like change, become a math teacher." Sounds like a good alternative to vinyl record sales--but alas, perhaps not has much fun.

 

I wonder if this record shop in Soho has survived the times.

 

Anyway, that's what I got.

 

London, England

The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (LRCBH), officially the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, opened on May 21, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada that is operated by the Cleveland Clinic and was designed by the world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. Keep Memory Alive (also known as KMA) was founded by Larry Ruvo, senior managing partner of Southern Wines and Spirits, in memory of his father, Lou Ruvo, a victim of Alzheimer's Disease, together with his wife Camille, Mirage Resorts CEO Bobby Baldwin (who also lost his father to Alzheimer's Disease), and Bobby Baldwin's wife Donna. KMA supports the mission of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and has held several star-studded galas, attended by celebrities and notables from around the world. It has become one of Las Vegas' most important charity initiatives and a key participant in the nation fight against Alzheimer's disease. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $20 million towards achieving its goal – the realization of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Funds committed by such supporters as the Spector Family Foundation, the Roland and Terri Sturm Foundation, Steinberg Diagnostics, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and America Online will be utilized for the construction and operation of this state-of-the-art facility. The Center is planned to become a national resource for the most current research and scientific information for the treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington 's Diseases, Multiple Sclerosis and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) as well as focusing on prevention, early detection and education. The ceremonial groundbreaking of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health occurred on February 9, 2007. Dignitaries who attended the groundbreaking ceremonies for the $70 million project included founder Larry Ruvo, Frank Gehry, U.S. Senator Harry Reid and John Ensign; U.S. Representative Shelley Berkley, Jon Porter and Dean Heller, Gov. Jim Gibbons, Mayor Oscar Goodman, former Gov. Kenny Guinn, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Spacey, and John Cusack. The Center operates as an outpatient treatment and research facility in downtown Las Vegas on land deeded to Keep Memory Alive, the fund raising arm of LRCBH, by the City of Las Vegas as part of its 61 acres (25 ha) Symphony Park. The Center is approximately 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m2) and includes 13 examination rooms, offices for health care practitioners and researchers, a "Museum of the Mind," and a community auditorium. The Center will also serve as the headquarters for Keep Memory Alive, the Las Vegas Alzheimer's Association and the Las Vegas Parkinson's Disease Association. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Ruvo_Center_for_Brain_Health

 

Other Links:

kmaeventcenterlasvegas.com

www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/ruvocenter.htm

Irlanda - Dunsany - Castillo Killeen - Jardines

 

ENGLISH:

 

Killeen Castle, located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180. The current building is a restoration of a largely 19th century construction, burnt out in 1981. Killeen was built as one of a pair of castles either side of a major roadway north, the other being the extant Dunsany Castle. The demesne contains the castle itself, a substantial stable yard, a church (sometimes, incorrectly, called "Killeen Abbey"), a holy well (the "Lady Well") a pond, a walled garden and other features. The church, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was erected around 1425, is in the Gothic style and has an adjacent cemetery. It is preserved as a National Monument.

 

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ESPAÑOL:

 

En la localidad de Dunsany, condado de Meath, hay una propiedad que hoy está orientada al turismo pero que se alza en el sitio donde estuvo un antiguo castillo. El edificio actual, que se ha convertido en un hotel de lujo después de una gran restauración, en realidad era una mansión típica del siglo XIX. Pero se quemó en 1981 así que tuvo que ser reconstruida. El castillo que solía estar aquí servía para proteger la ruta del norte y no era el único en la zona pues el Castillo Dunsany mismo está todavía muy cerca. Parece que el castillo original era una fortaleza normanda constuida por la familia de Lacy que después pasó a manos de la familia Cusack y finalmente cayó en la familia Plunkett. Pero fue uno de los Cusack quien en el siglo XII construyó sobre el castillo normando el Castillo Killen mismo. Parece que tenía cuatro altas torres de cinco pisos cada una, murallas, escaleras de madera muy altas, puertas angostas y que estaba construido sobre una loma. Cuando, por matrimonio, el castillo pasó a la familia Plunket, primeros barones de Killeen y ya no lores, la propiedad se divide en dos: a un hijo le toca el Castillo Dunsany y al otro el Castillo Kileen. El castillo decayó en el siglo XVIII y debió ser restaurado en el siglo XIX pero gran parte fue demolido y vuelto a construir siguiendo un stilo que recordaba al Castillo de Windsor. Finalmente el último miembro de los Plunkett, entonces Conde de Fingall, lo vendió en 1955 y por mucho tiempo el sitio funcionó como stud de caballos. En 1981 alguien lo incendió y fue abandonado por muchos años hasta que en 1989 las tierras se vendieron de nuevo y empezó a construirse el hotel de lujo.

 

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2020

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Last years of old wooden Cusack stand, Croke Park, Dublin.

(1990)

 

T-Max 400 ASA - Nikkormatt SLR

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2022

 

Models: Ayleish Cusack & Ethan Rickard

 

Lismore NSW Australia has experienced the brunt of extreme weather this year in the form of record flood waters.

 

Homes and commercial buildings have been devastated and from where we stand there's a sense of something bigger happening than just more rain.

Day 89 (03.29.2012)

 

Today just sucked. One of my very best friends has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and my heart is just breaking for him, his family, and all of his friends. The shock of it just feels like a big numb void in my heart.

 

Tomorrow will be better, I know. For right now though, I met a few friends out and we decided to focus on how we will spend the half of a billion dollars we plan to win in the lottery tomorrow. Life is too short, live every second!

 

PS: Of course number 1 on our list is to invest every penny needed to cure cancer. Then with the leftovers here are a few of mine:

 

1) That all of my cocktails that I'll be sipping while sitting on my beach on my private island will have full sized umbrellas.

2) That I will rid the world of English peas.

3) To help the farmers and products that rely on English peas, I will have them all replaced with Edamame.

4) I will buy John Cusack and convince him to be a Republican.

5) I will have a different tiara every day to wear.

 

May 2012 Monthly Scavenger Hunt entry - "Numb"

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2020

 

Models: Bella Lee-Ball & Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2020

 

Models: Bella Lee-Ball & Ayleish Cusack

Marcy Avenue Station at Broadway in Brooklyn's Southside

 

At this corner a dramatic shootout between an off-duty police detective and a criminal with mob ties from the movie City Hall (1996, with Al Pacino) was filmed .

 

Originally a black & white image, which I colored to give it an appeal of the 70's.

 

Press "F" if you like it.

  

All of my photographs are under copyright ©. None of these photographs may be reproduced and/or used in any way without my permission.

  

© NGimages / Nico Geerlings Photography

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Models: Alita Moxham & Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

I'm going blank on what the song was. I have a tendency to switch back-n-forth from radio to cd alot. The cd cases go flying all over the place when I'm driving.

 

Went and saw the movie "Martian Child"... also a heart tugger. John Cusack has that ability to make one's heart drop a few inches just by being on the screen.

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Models: Ayleish Cusack & Miss Mcloughlin

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2023

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Irlanda - Dunsany - Castillo Killeen

 

ENGLISH:

 

Killeen Castle, located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180. The current building is a restoration of a largely 19th century construction, burnt out in 1981. Killeen was built as one of a pair of castles either side of a major roadway north, the other being the extant Dunsany Castle. The demesne contains the castle itself, a substantial stable yard, a church (sometimes, incorrectly, called "Killeen Abbey"), a holy well (the "Lady Well") a pond, a walled garden and other features. The church, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was erected around 1425, is in the Gothic style and has an adjacent cemetery. It is preserved as a National Monument.

 

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ESPAÑOL:

 

En la localidad de Dunsany, condado de Meath, hay una propiedad que hoy está orientada al turismo pero que se alza en el sitio donde estuvo un antiguo castillo. El edificio actual, que se ha convertido en un hotel de lujo después de una gran restauración, en realidad era una mansión típica del siglo XIX. Pero se quemó en 1981 así que tuvo que ser reconstruida. El castillo que solía estar aquí servía para proteger la ruta del norte y no era el único en la zona pues el Castillo Dunsany mismo está todavía muy cerca. Parece que el castillo original era una fortaleza normanda constuida por la familia de Lacy que después pasó a manos de la familia Cusack y finalmente cayó en la familia Plunkett. Pero fue uno de los Cusack quien en el siglo XII construyó sobre el castillo normando el Castillo Killen mismo. Parece que tenía cuatro altas torres de cinco pisos cada una, murallas, escaleras de madera muy altas, puertas angostas y que estaba construido sobre una loma. Cuando, por matrimonio, el castillo pasó a la familia Plunket, primeros barones de Killeen y ya no lores, la propiedad se divide en dos: a un hijo le toca el Castillo Dunsany y al otro el Castillo Kileen. El castillo decayó en el siglo XVIII y debió ser restaurado en el siglo XIX pero gran parte fue demolido y vuelto a construir siguiendo un stilo que recordaba al Castillo de Windsor. Finalmente el último miembro de los Plunkett, entonces Conde de Fingall, lo vendió en 1955 y por mucho tiempo el sitio funcionó como stud de caballos. En 1981 alguien lo incendió y fue abandonado por muchos años hasta que en 1989 las tierras se vendieron de nuevo y empezó a construirse el hotel de lujo.

 

North Strand, Dublin 1. View On Black

This image is 6 photos merged with Autostitch.

 

With the rugby on at the weekend I headed over to Cusack's to meet some friends who'd been at the Irish game in Croke Park, God love them...

I'd never been in the pub before, but this time it was packed so it obviously wasn't the best time to have a good look around. However, Mr. Cusack certainly has a love of all things maritime; the place is packed full of nautical memorbillia in every corner you look...you are even greeted by an old fashioned deep sea diver at the door. Quirky. I'll have to go back to see the place when it's less full. It seems to me to be a good spot with a load of character, and from what I've heard, characters.

 

My camera is acting up these days...I mightn't be posting as many shots as I'd like for a while. Hopefully, I'll get it sorted soon.

 

Part of the Boozin' set. See the Slideshow

Or check out the Bar Guide

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

 

CRACKED MIRROR

 

I’m beginning to suspect one of the most common human experiences has to do with feelings of disempowerment.

 

A surprising number of people feel deprived of influence or importance. They feel insignificant or otherwise unnoticeable – hence the popularity of social networks that provide ‘followers’ and ‘likes’ to massage our ego, or distract from our self-critical feelings of irrelevancy.

 

To this end the internet plays a pivotal role.

 

Like no other generation in history, we’re constantly bombarded with images of beautiful, happy people in amazing locations enjoying an opulent lifestyle – everything from clothes and iphones to the latest model Audi or open plan house.

 

We’re constantly reminded of the life we don’t occupy, the places we’ve never visited and the car we’ll never actually own. We’re taunted by beautiful models of people we’ll never meet and the sort of sexual encounters only an Olympic gymnasts could perform!

 

Pornography has penetrated (Freudian slip there) our culture to the extent that products and lifestyles are sold as glossy, sexy extensions of our hedonistic, device-saturated expectation of life, yet in most cases the lives we actually inhabit are very different!

 

The differences between our expectations, hopes and dreams and the hard realities of Mother Earth has never been so great and in the no man’s land that separates the two lies a shared experience of despair.

 

Yet the good news is all of this only takes place in our heads – and thankfully our head-space can change.

 

“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realising on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”

 

Rabindranath Tagore

The Down County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste An Dún) or Down GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Down.

On the 19th September 2010 Down will play Cork for the All-Ireland Senior Football Final at GAA headquarters in Dublin (Croke Park) named in honour of Archbishop Thomas Croke, one of the GAA's first patrons.Although an amateur sport supporters fill Croke Park with capacity of 84,516 tickets are in very high demand.

The highest attendance ever recorded at an All-Ireland Senior Football Final was 90,556 at the 1961 Offaly v Down final. Since the introduction of seating to the Cusack stand in 1966, the largest crowd recorded has been 84,516.

During the Irish War of Independence on November 21, 1920 Croke Park was the scene of a massacre by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). The Police, supported by the British Auxiliary Division entered the ground, shooting indiscriminately into the crowd killing or fatally wounding 12 during a Dublin-Tipperary gaelic football match. The dead included 11 spectators and Tipperary's captain, Michael Hogan. Posthumously, the Hogan stand built in 1924 was named in his honour. These shootings, on the day which became known as Bloody Sunday

Thomas Cusack (October 5, 1858 in Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland – November 19, 1926 in Oak Park, Illinois) was a pioneer and entrepreneur in the outdoor advertising industry and a politician, serving as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Illinois' 4th District from 1899 to 1901.

 

Cusack emigrated with his family from Ireland to New York City in 1861 when he was a young boy. Shortly after the move, his parents died, leaving him and his younger brother orphaned. Cusack was raised by relatives in Chicago, where he received his education and learned how to paint, a skill that ultimately made him a very wealthy man. At the age of 17, Cusack established his own sign painting business, the Thomas Cusack Company, in Chicago, Illinois, making him one of the pioneers in the field of outdoor advertising. The business soon grew to be very profitable, leasing over 100,000 billboards and advertising spaces and turning Cusack into a prosperous and influential Chicagoan.

 

The Coca-Cola sign was painted over another even older sign for Wrigley’s Spearmint gum. The Wrigley name/brand is iconic in Chicago…kinda ironic it was painted over by Chicago’s Cusack company.

 

The 5 cents/bottle (6.5 fl oz) lasted from 1886 through 1959…quite a feat…close to 70 years.

St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh (Irish: Ardeaglais Phádraig, Ard Mhacha) is the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Diocese of Armagh. Although the origins of the site are as a 5th century Irish stone monastery, said to have been founded by St. Patrick, and there has been a significant church on the site since, its present appearance largely dates from Lewis Nockalls Cottingham’s restoration in the years after 1834, although the fabric of Primate O’Scanlan’s 1268 building remains. Over the centuries, the church on the site has been at least partially destroyed and rebuilt 17 times.

 

Throughout the Middle Ages, the cathedral was the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, and one of the most important churches in Gaelic Ireland. With the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, the cathedral was taken over by the Church of Ireland.

 

Following Catholic emancipation in the 19th century, a new Catholic cathedral was built in Armagh, also called St Patrick’s Cathedral, on another hilltop half a kilometre away.

 

Evidence suggests that the hilltop was originally a pagan sanctuary. By the 7th century, it had become the most important monastery and monastic school in the north of Ireland, and monastic settlement grew up around it. Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, visited Armagh in 1004, acknowledging it as the head cathedral of Ireland and bestowing it a large sum of gold. Brian was buried at Armagh cathedral after his death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. Armagh’s claim to the primacy of Ireland was formally acknowledged at the Synod of Ráth Breasail in 1111.

 

The cathedral was renovated and restored under Dean Eoghan McCawell (1505–1549), having suffered from a devastating fire in 1511 and being in poor shape. Soon after his death the cathedral was described by Lord Chancellor Cusack as “one of the fairest and best churches in Ireland”. However, by the end of the Nine Years’ War which devastated Ulster between 1593 and 1603, Armagh lay in ruins.

 

Following the Nine Years’ War, Armagh came under English control and the town began to be settled by Protestants from Britain, as part of the Plantation of Ulster. During the Irish Rebellion of 1641, many Protestant settlers fled to Armagh cathedral for safety. After negotiations with the besieged settlers, Catholic rebels occupied the town until May 1642.

 

As mentioned above, the cathedral largely owes its current appearance to a rebuilding between 1834 and 1840 by Archbishop Lord John George Beresford and the architect Lewis Nockalls Cottingham. The fabric remains that of the mediaeval building but much restored. While Cottingham was heavy-handed in his restoration, the researches of T. G. F. Patterson and Janet Myles in the late twentieth century have shown the restoration to have been notably antiquarian for its time. The tracery of the nave windows in particular are careful restorations as is the copy of the font. The capital decoration of the two westernmost pillars of the nave (either side of the West Door internal porch) are mediaeval as are the bulk of the external gargoyle carvings (some resited) of the parapet of the Eastern Arm. Cottingham’s intention of retaining the richly cusped West Door with flanking canopied niches was over-ruled. Subsequent restorations have more radically altered the internal proportions of the mediaeval building, proportions which Cottingham had retained.

 

Many other Celtic and mediaeval carvings are to be seen within the cathedral which is also rich in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sculpture. There are works by Francis Leggatt Chantrey, Louis-François Roubiliac, John Michael Rysbrack, Carlo Marochetti and others.

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Models: Alita Moxham & Ayleish Cusack

artist: Fred Frith and others

title: Guitar Solos 3

label: Red

country: USA

date: 1989

The third in a series of guitar solos albums Fred Frith released. Among others there are pieces by Henry Kaiser, Keith Rowe, Peter Cusack and Eugene Chadbourne.

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2020

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

A thrill he hasn't felt in ages courses through Dev! A lesser being is lurking nearby! He knows he should inform the city's Commander and put the city on red alert, but he is blinded to his duty by the opportunity to finally kill again!

 

After so many years it is an opportunity he does not plan on letting slip by!

 

When he defeats this invader, he will have proved his worth to the Emperor - surely he wouldn't leave behind for the second time the Dalek responsible for saving the city ?

 

Dev: I - SHAAAL - DE-STROOY -THE -INTRUDER!

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 202

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Models: Ayleish Cusack & Miss Mcloughlin

  

NOT HIDING

 

Ironically, John Lennon was shot to death.

 

Ironic because at the end of his life, Lennon’s basic message was about love. In the simplest of terms he viewed love (in all its forms) as a counter-weight to many of the problems we encounter.

 

He once said: ‘We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practised in broad daylight.’

 

The emotional bonds we share with certain people form the most precious reasons for living and it’s fitting we celebrate them both in life itself and in the things we create.

 

It’s fitting we ground ourselves in love by voicing it, ‘not’ hiding it.

 

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2021

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

  

i was born locked-down

 

locked-down within myself

 

locked-down by my own lack of confidence

my own unwillingness to rise above my fears

 

and take ownership

 

confined, cloistered by something inside

that is solely mine

 

every knock and bruise I’ve encountered

is mine also

 

because there’s no-one here to deal

with their consequence but me

 

no-one to blame, nothing that changes

what was

 

so every word I speak, every move I take,

every choice I make now and forever is mine

 

i was born locked-down

yet have earned my freedom

  

High Fidelity soundtrack. The movie, that is.

Anima Series 6

Lismore NSW Australia 2020

 

Model: Ayleish Cusack

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