The last of the religious Still Life shots for the moment. According to my wife, a lot of families would have had The Sacred Heart hanging on a wall - there's space at the bottom for the children's names to be added as they came along. And in Roman Catholic Ireland, they came along not in ones or twos - my wife's neighbours, when she was young, had eleven children. Mostly boys, too. I doubt there was much left on the table after mealtimes in that house.
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| OM1/50mm Zuiko. HP5 on Foma 313 paper, toned in home-brew thiourea. Yes...well spotted, those damn goblets again. They're really annoying me now. |
I'm off now to mount some prints, as I stupidly volunteered to show some at tonight's Club Meeting. What was I thinking...
Some of my relatives in northern Newfoundland had pictures of Jesus on their walls. Names of children were written in family bibles rather than on the pictures. I always thought those sort of pictures were natural in church, but I felt they were a bit out of place in people's homes. A bit too 'serious'. I imagine my relatives thought the pictures of Charlotte Bronte and poems I had written out in calligraphy on my bedroom wall were a bit strange . . . .
ReplyDeleteI would agree, Marcus - it's a bit too much for my tastes, too. The Catholic Church had a major influence in peoples' lives here in Ireland for a very long time. And still does - in schools and hospital policies.
DeleteCharlotte Bronte would have been my pin-up from that particular family, too. A few years back I visited the Haworth Museum - and even had a wee walk up on the moors ;) Wonderful. Did you know there's a Bronte connection to Northern Ireland? Or should I say, a Brunty connection :)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35162924
I didn't know the father was from Ireland. Brontë doesn't seem very Irish . . .
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