romancatholiccathedral

Mother Ireland on her knees

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 16 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Delany Archive Ireland
  "Statue to the memory of James Doyle (JKL), Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin
  Statue is in the Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow. The sculptor was John Hogan, Tallow, Co. Waterford. He won the commission to create the memorial statue in 1837 and it was completed in 1839."

• beachcomber australia said:

  "James Warren Doyle, O.E.S.A. (1786–1834) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in Ireland, who used the signature "JKL", an acronym from "James Kildare and Leighlin." Doyle was active in the Anti-Tithe movement. A campaigner for Catholic Emancipation until it was attained in 1829, he was also an educator, church organiser and the builder of Carlow cathedral. ..."
  See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Warren_Doyle

• beachcomber australia said:

  Via Delany Archive Ireland -
  
  
  
  I am not sure about the rules of chess, but the Bishop (and the Actress!) seem to have moved to a window.
  In 2012 via [Andrew Wilson]

• Niall McAuley said:

  Per the DIA:
  
  Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
  Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC)
  Date: 1837-39
  Nature: Marble group, executed in Rome, in memory of James Warren Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1786-1834).

• Niall McAuley said:

  Odd, the Stations of the Cross #11 behind the statue does not match the ones in the modern shot above, but also doesn't match that Delany Archive shot. Nor is the statue in the same position in any of the 3 shots.