tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242686622024-03-19T13:11:48.012+00:00Phoenix ParkPhoenix Park in Dublin is home to diverse species, from wandering man to busy ants that spread furze seeds that created the Furry Glen, a protected wilderness area of Phoenix Park, to the fallow deer herd whose ancestors were first stocked there in the 17th century.brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-76184123126735233032012-06-07T08:34:00.002+01:002012-06-07T08:50:32.146+01:00When the Eucharistic Congress came to town<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Preparations were in train in Dublin for the<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> thirty-first Eucharistic </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Congress, held on 23 June 1932, f</span>or several months and the month of </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">June became a period of retreat and prayer. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSy-PNPf8Wvba99P96DwsNCcADbupaSCxMYjBNirYH47-cAlLSyb83OA_eHAhZLFDhucWIZpzUjC0INq_f21h7GC-yMbRaQw1Yr3RRNSPtbvAJmvcJATiG4JqXD9t6wUvyw7J/s1600/eucharisticCongressBadge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSy-PNPf8Wvba99P96DwsNCcADbupaSCxMYjBNirYH47-cAlLSyb83OA_eHAhZLFDhucWIZpzUjC0INq_f21h7GC-yMbRaQw1Yr3RRNSPtbvAJmvcJATiG4JqXD9t6wUvyw7J/s1600/eucharisticCongressBadge.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On the day, almost half a million people were present to </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">witness Papal Legate Cardinal Lorenzo Lauri celebrate mass. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Contemporary estimates record the presence of high church </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">dignitaries including nine cardinals, hundreds of bishops and </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">other clerics representing forty-eight countries. <br />
The newly elected Fianna Fail government under the formerly excommunicated Eamon de Valera went all out to show that the Irish Free State was a country in high standing with Rome.<br />
During the High </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mass, the 1,500-year-old St Patrick’s Bell was used to mark </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the solemn moments. The bell was loaned for the occasion by </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the National Museum of Ireland. Scouts from the newly formed </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland acted as guards at the high altar </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in the park. The High Mass was followed by a procession to </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the centre of the city along the North Circular Road and down </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">O’Connell Street, where, at an altar erected on O’Connell Bridge, </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">solemn benediction was imparted by Cardinal Lauri. <br />
The procession </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to the bridge was some five miles long and was given </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">colour by the hundreds of banners carried by participants who </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">wore the special Congress badge struck for the occasion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The main park gates at Parkgate Street were removed for ease of </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">movement of crowds for the Eucharistic Congress.<br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://phoenixparkbook.com/events.htm">more</a></span> </span></div>brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-1147338301273344392006-05-11T09:58:00.000+01:002006-05-11T10:05:01.283+01:00Park traffic study comments are sought<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/1600/lamptfc.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/200/lamptfc.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The Commissioners of Public Works has commissioned Faber Maunsell Consulting Engineers to conduct a comprehensive study of traffic in the park.<br /><br />The closing date for submissions was extended to the end of May following local complaints that the original closing date was too close to the announcement of the study.<br /><br />Results of the survey are expected to go on public display by the end of the summer.<br /><br />Pressure has been building on the OPW, custodians of the park, to allow the park to be used as a public bus route to ease traffic congestion on surrounding roads.<br /><br />Submissions may be emailed to the consultants.<br /><br />More detail <a href="http://www.liffey-i.com/update.htm#ts">here</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Have your say on any entry by clicking on comment below.<br /></span>brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-1146475453966823502006-05-01T10:17:00.000+01:002006-10-09T13:07:53.163+01:00four in a row and a football match<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/1600/footballer.0.gif"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/200/footballer.0.gif" border="0" /></a> On Saturday April 22 author Brendan Nolan was interviewed on Dublin's Phoenix FM in an extended interview. It was the fourth weekend in a row that the book featured in the media.<br /><br />A local cup match between two teams from St Brigid's GAA club was on that afternoon and Brendan was sandwiched between live match reports, or vice versa.<br /><br />The programme ran for two and a half hours and is to be edited to a 60-minute interview for re-broadcast whenever the station needs an hour-long show to fill a schedule.<br /><br />It could go on forever.<br /><br />For signed copies go <a href="http://www.neteireann.com/shop.htm#ph1">here</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Have your say on any entry by clicking on comment below.</span>brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-1145439175891474552006-04-19T10:18:00.000+01:002006-05-01T10:28:02.106+01:00Signed copies for home delivery<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/1600/Phoenix%20park%20cov%20small.0.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/200/Phoenix%20park%20cov%20small.0.jpg" border="0" /></a>The book Phoenix Park a history and guidebook is going into its third printing since launch on December 8.<br /><br />It has featured on the just published shelves and on the tables in Eason's of O'Connell Street for some 18 weeks without a break, and other outlets are also prominently featuring the book, so it's no wonder sales are staying steady.<br /><br />On the web it is available through Amazon, Eason's, and the publisher Liffey Press websites as well as other sales site.<br /><br />As well, we have added a new sales point for personally signed copies delivered to your home.<br /><br />For signed copies go <a href="http://www.neteireann.com/shop.htm#ph1">here</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">You can comment on any entry by clicking on comment below.</span>brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-1145345362947021012006-04-18T08:19:00.000+01:002006-05-01T10:29:02.083+01:00Three weekends in a row<span style="font-family:arial;">Easter weekend 2006 was the third weekend in a row that the book and or author were featured in newspapers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">On April 1, we were on Mooney goes Wild on RTE radio and in the Evening Herald.<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/1600/BrendanTrooms1ao.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/320/BrendanTrooms1ao.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />On April 8, the book was mentioned in the Horizons column of the Irish Times.<br /><br />On April 15, Easter Sunday, the Irish edition of the Sunday Times ran a two page feature in one of its supplements and Brendan Nolan was interviewed. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sadly, no jacket of the book appeared, nor was the website address included in the factbox and no author picture was used despite an invitation from the paper to be photographed extensively in the Park, which we agreed to do.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">You can comment on this entry by clicking on comment below. </span>brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-1144942249144567662006-04-13T16:16:00.000+01:002006-04-17T09:50:38.956+01:00new roundabout slows traffic<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/1600/rndbt3.3.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/200/rndbt3.3.jpg" border="0" /></a> A temporary roundabout on Chesterfield Avenue is expected to reduce traffic accidents on the park's busiest road.<br /><br />In recent years eight minor roads were closed leading to a 50 per cent reduction in traffic accidents.<br /><br />The latest roundabout is on Mountjoy Cross, one of the busiest junctions in Phoenix Park which currently experiences some 30,000 car journeys a day.<br /><br />more news <a href="http://www.liffey-i.com/update.htm">here</a>brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-1144060286959041702006-04-03T11:25:00.000+01:002006-04-17T09:52:13.296+01:00April Fool in the park<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/1600/protest3.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/200/protest3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Listeners to the RTE radio programme <em>Mooney goes Wild on One</em> were surprised to hear a "live" story from Phoenix Park on April Fool's Day.<br /><br />It was announced that protestors had arrived to demonstrate at what was claimed was a proposal to build a dual-carriageway with ten metre high screening walls down Chesterfield Avenue.<br /><br />It was said to be part of the <strong>A</strong>mended <strong>P</strong>rogramme for <strong>R</strong>ail <strong>I</strong>ntegrated with <strong>L</strong>uas: <strong>F</strong>irst <strong>O</strong>fficial <strong>O</strong>n-<strong>L</strong>ine report.<br /><br /><strong>April Fool<br /></strong><br />We were there. see <a href="http://www.liffey-i.com/update.htm#april">here</a>brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-1143623786570135492006-03-29T10:12:00.000+01:002006-03-29T10:16:26.583+01:00No satisfaction for Stones loversThe Rolling Stones have cancelled their Phoenix Park rock concert schedule for August 18, following legal argument by a rival promoter over procedures to be followed in granting a licence to a promoter to use the public park for the pay-in concert.<br /><br />The concert was to have been part of the Stone's 2006 A BIGGER BANG tour.<br /><br />Instead the band will now perform in Spain on the Dublin date as part of an international tour.<br /><br />The legal row may have repercussions for future concert promotions in the park.<br /><br />More detail <a href="http://www.liffey-i.com/update.htm#ns">here</a>brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-1143188064501930112006-03-24T08:09:00.000+00:002006-03-24T10:33:40.936+00:00Missing man sought by GardaGardaí have appealed for help in tracing a 66-year-old man missing in Phoenix Park.<br /><br />The appeal for information has been reiterated by the Garda on the whereabouts of Seamus Power who was last seen at St Mary's Hospital in Phoenix Park on Tuesday March 21, 2006 at about 6pm.<br /><br />Mr Power – who is 5’9” tall, and is of medium build with grey shoulder-length hair - was last seen wearing a navy jacket and black trousers.<br /><br />Anyone with information is asked to contact gardaí at Cabra station on 01 666 7400.brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24268662.post-1142628418146689432006-03-17T20:42:00.000+00:002006-03-24T09:23:05.020+00:00Talking Trees<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/1600/JohnMcCullen.1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7248/2256/200/JohnMcCullen.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Parks Supertindent John McCullen gave an illustrated talk entitled ‘Trees and Landscapes of the Phoenix Park’ in the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin on Thursday March 23.<br /><br />The talk was organised by the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland and the Irish Garden Plant Society.<br /><br />More updates <a href="http://www.liffey-i.com/phoenixpark.htm">here</a>brendan nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938924300582802396noreply@blogger.com0