Concentration, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.My son and Alan putting a couple of the horses through their paces. The lads and their horses were as one....total concentration from all of them.
Labels: "Horse Racing", Family, Family Horses Racing, Riding, Training
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Our beautiful 4 year old niece at her sister's First Holy Communion - May 2009
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Stacks & Steeples - a Dublin Skyline
Labels: Dublin, Family, Guinness, History, Skyline
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I am delighted to say that one of my photos has been chosen for the cover of the latest novel by Mary Stewart. The publishers have sent the proof to me. There was a little desaturating done to the original and I think it looks great.
Labels: "Book Cover", "Mary Stewart", Thornyhold
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This is the dome in the Rotunda of Dublin City Hall. It was completely refurbished between 1998 and 2000. Like the rest of the Rotunda the gold leaf was replaced. It still looks very bright and new, quite garish. I would have preferred if the gold-leaf could have been aged in some way...but defeats the purpose of the restoration I suppose :-) To really do justice to it I need a much wider lens, or I need to learn how to stitch some photos together.
Labels: "City Hall", Dome, Dublin, Restoration, Rotunda
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Balloons being released in remembrance of brothers, sisters, sons and daughters who died as babies and are buried in the Angels Plot, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. May 25th 2008
Labels: "Glasnevin Cemetery", Angels, Dublin
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Irish Actor Stuart Townsend now based in Hollywood and boyfriend of Charlize Theron was back in Dublin supporting the Harpers for Tara protest in Dublin.
Labels: Dublin Actors Tara Meath
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Myra, this is my old boarding school. Bottom left windows were the parlour rooms (formal reception rooms) of the school. When we were collected by our parents once or twice a term to go out with them it was referred to as 'parlour' meetings. Mum and Dad would be shown into one of the rooms and I would be called for. One of the girls would come looking for me and shout "Mary Parlour". I would run (should have been lady like and walked!)down the stairs and one of the nuns would tell me what room. I was only allowed to leave the convent when I was with Mum or Dad. This side of the convent over looked the gardens where there was a fountain and a statue of Our Lady. We were only allowed to walk around the statue when it was the 1st May or we were having a retreat and expected to walk around praying. Other than that this area was Nuns only! Top right windows were my cubicle windows in my new dorm when I first joined the school. The whole building has been converted into apartments.
Labels: Schooldays
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This is Brenda who has been of great help and support to Eoghan. She is amazing!
Labels: Horses
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I left the picture large. It was pouring with rain and I was trying to hold the camera and an umbrella to protect the camera. This was up on the gallops, doing uphill training to get the horses fit for the forthcoming racing season.
Labels: Family Horses Racing
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Just for you Myra, here is Eoghan training one of the horses, this horse won a couple of weeks ago!
Labels: Family Horses Racing
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Labels: Buildings
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The three-light stained glass crucifixion window behind the high altar of St. Joseph's Church, Terenure, Dublin.
My childhood church holds a very special place in my heart.
Adding colour to many a forgotten spot. Red Valerian, a perennial to be found on broken ground and walls.
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At the Meatloaf concert with my son. No flash photography just playing with the settings and lens on the camera.
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Easter Weekend, Ireland's oldest monastic settlement on the shore of the Shannon river.
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Taken at Cahills Printers Fire.
These lads were giving the Traffic Guard a woeful time trying to get under the tape.
They were very funny and kept asking me to take their photos.
Labels: Candid
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Arbour Hill, Dublin.
The last resting place of the Leaders of the 1916 Rising.
This is part of the monument that commemorates their resting place.
The proclamation was signed by them and it was for this and leading the rising that they were executed.
Labels: History
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Orton Technigue applied to a photograph of a glade in the Botanical Gardens, Dublin
Labels: Orton
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