Oh it’s six miles from Bangor to Donaghadee by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: Ballymagee Street in Bangor, County Down on a fine day with an omnibus complete with destination plate to put our location on the map, so to speak! I do love posting photographs like this with so much going on, shops, awnings, clothing, traffic etc. The title comes from the song The Auld Orange Flute Oh, it’s six miles from Bangor to Donaghadee Now Bob, the deceiver, he took us all in He married a Papist called Bridget McGinn Turned Papish himself and forsook the old cause That gave us our freedom, religion and laws Photographer: Robert FrenchCollection:Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: Circa 1865 - 1914 NLI Ref: L_ROY_11218 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumbered and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green. There hath he lain for ages, and will lie Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep, Until the latter fire shall heat the deep; Then once by man and angels to be seen, In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Another layer to my lighthouse painting depicting the legendary Kraken of Norse Mythology. #Kraken #Donaghadee #Krita #Huion #fantasy #artistsoninstagram #illustrateyourworld #illustrationartists #digitalart #digitalpainting #DiscoverNI #ExploreNI #irishpassion #Ulster #Norse #Viking #mythology (at Donaghadee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNOAMV1JJnA/?igshid=snh5jhgjrfvd