Monthly Archives: May 2013

dogboydHe howls for his master.

Like the other parishioners.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

There’s no portrait available of the large Newfoundland sea-dog which haunts St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, but if there were. it might look something like the one in the painting by Edwin Landseer (top).

The dog belonged to Captain Boyd, of the Ajax, who died in Dun Laoghaire Harbour in the great storm of 1861, swept from his vessel by a wave as the two of them were working together side by side rescuing passengers from some of the many vessels lost in the storm.

Left behind, his beloved pet followed the Captain’s funeral procession, howling at a distance, before lying down and starving to death on top of his grave.

Sadly, he did not find him even in death and still haunts the cathedral as a large shaggy form curled up at the base of the Captain’s monument (above). Last reported sighting, c. 1950.

 

The Boyd Disaster (Mariner.ie)

(Pic: St Patrick’s Cathedral)

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You want Feis?

Well, Feis costs.

And here’s where you start paying

A newly-edited compilation of highlights from the Gala Concert at the Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil 2013, held at Dublin’s National Concert Hall in March.

Music makers included: High School Orchestra, Rathgar, Ellen Jannson (Piano), Padraic Rowan (Baritone), Mairead Hickey (Violin), the Leeson Park School Of Music Flute Ensemble, Sinead O’Halloran (Cello) and Gary Beecher (Piano), Donal McCann (organ), the Belvedere College & Mount Sackville School Choir, Miriam Kaczor (Flute), Kelly Lonergan (Soprano), Eneko O’Carroll (Horn), tRIAM – Pheobe White (Violin), Christopher Ellis (Cello) and Emma Gilmartin (Piano), Maria Hughes & Lawrence Thackeray (Vocal Duo), Paul McCarroll (Piano) and Patrick Rafter (Violin).

Bodger was on second tuba.

FeisCeoil

A Doris/Magee film