Andreas F. Borchert
@afborchert.bsky.social
Computer scientist & church crawler living in 🇩🇪 who loves to travel in 🇮🇪 and 🇫🇷. Photographs are all my own except where noted.
This painting by Sarah Purser is one of two posthumous portraits where this one was commissioned by the RIA and received on 23 January 1893 and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1893. The RIA considered this portrait to be “eminently successful”.
January 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This painting by Sarah Purser is one of two posthumous portraits where this one was commissioned by the RIA and received on 23 January 1893 and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1893. The RIA considered this portrait to be “eminently successful”.
I've been just two times in Glendalough so far (1987 and 2016), so 5 visits to go! One of my favourites is St. Saviour's Priory, founded by St. Laurence O'Toole in 1162 as house of Augustinian Canons. It was dissolved early in 1398. Luckily, its magnificent elements of the Irish Romanesque survived.
January 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I've been just two times in Glendalough so far (1987 and 2016), so 5 visits to go! One of my favourites is St. Saviour's Priory, founded by St. Laurence O'Toole in 1162 as house of Augustinian Canons. It was dissolved early in 1398. Luckily, its magnificent elements of the Irish Romanesque survived.
A unique baptismal font of the 15th or 16th century, prominently displaying the flight into Egypt, is to be found in St. Finian's church in Clonard. The font is probably the work of John Cusack, son of Sir Thomas Cusack who received the remainings of Clonard Abbey in 1551.
January 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A unique baptismal font of the 15th or 16th century, prominently displaying the flight into Egypt, is to be found in St. Finian's church in Clonard. The font is probably the work of John Cusack, son of Sir Thomas Cusack who received the remainings of Clonard Abbey in 1551.
The Augustinian friars are still active in Drogheda. St. Augustine's Church was designed by the Dublin architect Michael B. Moran in an Early English Victorian Gothic Revival style and built in 1856–1866. One of the remarkable features is the 7-light west window from 1934 by Harry Clarke studios.
![7-light west window with scenes from the life of St. Augustine: “St Augustine and St Monica, Augustine as the sledgehammer of heresy, Augustine and St Alypius on their conversion, Augustine alone, Baptism of Augustine, Augustine preaching to Augustinian friars, and [..] the presentation of the cincture to St Monica by the Virgin.” (Quoted from C. Casey and A. Rowan). Created by Harry Clarke studios (after the death of Harry Clarke who died in 1931). The window was erected in memory of Father Denis Crotty who died in August 1932.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gd5e3eaehjtfaaddnbpb5nx4/bafkreid536axantlifozvytptiiouirpwif2hyumpgae5ahydwojselt2m@jpeg)
November 24, 2024 at 9:52 PM
The Augustinian friars are still active in Drogheda. St. Augustine's Church was designed by the Dublin architect Michael B. Moran in an Early English Victorian Gothic Revival style and built in 1856–1866. One of the remarkable features is the 7-light west window from 1934 by Harry Clarke studios.
The engraving was created by Laurence Fagan (1825–1898) in 1858. He was born deaf, showed talent for art, was educated at Claremont where he became later a teacher for art. He sketched numerous scenes from Drogheda and archaeological sites in the area. Some are now in posession of Highlanes Gallery.
November 24, 2024 at 6:13 PM
The engraving was created by Laurence Fagan (1825–1898) in 1858. He was born deaf, showed talent for art, was educated at Claremont where he became later a teacher for art. He sketched numerous scenes from Drogheda and archaeological sites in the area. Some are now in posession of Highlanes Gallery.