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January 16, 2018 7:41 AM Subscribe
Caitriona Dunnett is using a digital-cyanotype process to
photograph Mass Paths - The Secret Paths That Led Ireland’s Catholics to Forbidden Mass
Beautiful work; I'd love to see the prints in person.
I'm taking a non-silver printing class right now and we're starting off with cyanotypes. I'm not actually much of a fan of the standard blue tint and was thinking about toning and love the effect that she gets with tea as a toner.
posted by octothorpe at 8:40 AM on January 16, 2018
I'm taking a non-silver printing class right now and we're starting off with cyanotypes. I'm not actually much of a fan of the standard blue tint and was thinking about toning and love the effect that she gets with tea as a toner.
posted by octothorpe at 8:40 AM on January 16, 2018
These are fantastic.
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 8:42 AM on January 16, 2018
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 8:42 AM on January 16, 2018
Indeed, fantastic photos with an interesting development style, which depict fading markers of a tragic history. Thanks for this!
posted by filthy light thief at 9:03 AM on January 16, 2018
posted by filthy light thief at 9:03 AM on January 16, 2018
These are haunting and heartbreaking. The history goes a long way to explain why I still attend Catholic Church, even though I do not agree with many official beliefs nor with the hierarchy. My Irish ancestors suffered and died to remain Catholic. I cannot bring myself to leave, they would haunt me.
I am wondering if there is one of these paths where my relatives still live, County Galway near Athenry? There is an ancient Holy Well there where Mass is still held every year on the Feast of the Assumption. My cousin's mother had told me that there was a deserted famine village she used to play in as a child in the 1920s-30s. My great-grandfather was illiterate in the early 20th century, I saw a document he signed with an X. The echos of the penal times still echo in rural Ireland.
posted by mermayd at 9:07 AM on January 16, 2018 [9 favorites]
I am wondering if there is one of these paths where my relatives still live, County Galway near Athenry? There is an ancient Holy Well there where Mass is still held every year on the Feast of the Assumption. My cousin's mother had told me that there was a deserted famine village she used to play in as a child in the 1920s-30s. My great-grandfather was illiterate in the early 20th century, I saw a document he signed with an X. The echos of the penal times still echo in rural Ireland.
posted by mermayd at 9:07 AM on January 16, 2018 [9 favorites]
I'm embarassed to say that I had no idea of the severity of the persecution imposed on Catholics, as described in the article. I knew it existed, but, wow.
This falls right in line with the true reasons behind The Great Hunger. State-sponsored genocide.
posted by bwvol at 9:10 AM on January 16, 2018 [5 favorites]
This falls right in line with the true reasons behind The Great Hunger. State-sponsored genocide.
posted by bwvol at 9:10 AM on January 16, 2018 [5 favorites]
These paths exist, but they are not always so accessible. My extended family shared a summer house in Schull west cork and one summer my dad went a bit mad when he came up with the idea of trying to assert right of way along the old mass path into schull village. It was marked on the ordnance survey map but passed over the neighbouring farmers land. If it had been opened it would have given us access to the sea on another side of the headland the house was on. As it was mostly scrubland with brambles and gourse the farmer didn't object to us trying to clear a path. But then he must have known we were doomed to fail. All I remember of that summer is having to battle some of the most evil sharpest brambles you will ever see in your life. It is true you could see the old mass path in places, if you looked carefully enough, just as you can probably still see the scratches in my arms and hands from those fecking thorns!
posted by foleypt at 9:19 AM on January 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by foleypt at 9:19 AM on January 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Beautiful project, and excellent post. Thank you!
posted by stonepharisee at 10:14 AM on January 16, 2018
posted by stonepharisee at 10:14 AM on January 16, 2018
Love those photos.
Where I'm from in Sligo is an area called Ransboro, and I was always told that was because it was named for a wren who had a burrow near a mass rock and would come out and stay on the altar during mass. Over time Wren's burrow became Ransboro.
posted by Fence at 12:03 PM on January 17, 2018
Where I'm from in Sligo is an area called Ransboro, and I was always told that was because it was named for a wren who had a burrow near a mass rock and would come out and stay on the altar during mass. Over time Wren's burrow became Ransboro.
posted by Fence at 12:03 PM on January 17, 2018
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