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Abandoned Ireland.com

Múinteoir · 2009-02-16 11:54:21

A new website that was brought to my attention by this article in yesterday's Sunday Tribune. They photograph old stately country houses that are failing into ruin and record them for posterity as they currently are, on the website. Some very interesting work and you can recommend other buildings to them to photograph.…

16-02-2009 11:54am

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A new website that was brought to my attention by this article in yesterday's Sunday Tribune. They photograph old stately country houses that are failing into ruin and record them for posterity as they currently are, on the website. Some very interesting work and you can recommend other buildings to them to photograph.

http://abandonedireland.com/

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#2 16-02-2009 9:04pm

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Very nice site. Fascinating. The creator posts on boards, http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055326722&highlight=Abandoned+Ireland , a thread about it a while back.

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#3 15-04-2009 1:44pm

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A shame, but interesting nonetheless!

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Update: Tarquin Blake of Abandoned Ireland has written a book 'Abandoned Mansions of Ireland' its available in all good book shops.
http://www.abandonedireland.com/Book.html
http://www.collinspress.ie/products.asp?id=10

His exhibition also opens in Cork Vision Centre, North Main Street, Cork on Saturday October 30th and runs until November 24th. Its totally free.
http://www.abandonedireland.com/Exhibition.html
http://www.corkvisioncentre.com/corkvisioncentre/Main/2010November.htm

RTE are running a documentary on Abandoned Ireland: RTE1 Nationwide 7pm on Monday 1st November

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