{"id":14338,"date":"2011-09-28T16:21:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14338"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:21:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:21:45","slug":"dublin-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/dublin-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin Castle:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14339\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MG_0107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nThis Georgian era statue of Lady Justice is unusual in that it is not blindfolded \u2013 signifying impartiality \u2013 but looks at Dublin Castle. This, in addition to the fact that justice favoured the elite, gave rise to the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lady Justice, notice her station:<br \/>\nFace to the castle and arse to the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those who have followed the ANiC v.s. ACoC court litigation, will note that this sums up those proceedings, too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14340\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MG_0119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the Guinness brewery. This was just her <em>first<\/em> pint; things went rapidly downhill from there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14341\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MG_0189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the advertisement says, Guinness is Good for You: it must be, Arthur Guinness and his wife had 21 children. \u00a0Of course, today she would have had two children and 19 abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Molly Malone who, we were told, was celibate by day, but used to sell a bit by night:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14343\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MG_01981.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A street artist:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14344\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MG_0222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14345\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MG_0142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had dinner in a restaurant that had once been a church. John Wesley preached his first Irish sermon there in 1747, Jonathan Swift used to attend it, Handel used the organ for practice and, as you can see from this plaque, the Rev. John Magill\u2019s remains were deposited in the Vault Beneath. I doubt if even this Divine of Polite Learning and Sound Judgement foresaw that, within a few hundred years, aided and abetted by mainline denominations,\u00a0 Western Christianity would decline to the point that his church would become a restaurant and his final resting place in the vault &#8211; toilets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14346\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MG_0243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have little doubt that St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy will, after the elapse of a decent interval, suffer a similar fate. Perhaps the new owners will offer Michael Ingham the position of head waiter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin Castle: This Georgian era statue of Lady Justice is unusual in that it is not blindfolded \u2013 signifying impartiality \u2013 but looks at Dublin Castle. 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