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You no doubt have heard the expression "Poor as a church mouse"? Well here we have not just a church mouse but a Cathedral cat and rat both of whom starved to death! The fine image from the Mason Collection shows the mummified remains that were found in Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin during cleaning.
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890 - 1910
NLI Ref: M27/6
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Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890 - 1910
NLI Ref: M27/6
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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3 years ago a contributor from Dublin, Ireland suggested this image location is 53.3434, -6.27123
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derangedlemur
You get a lot of dead mice in church organs. You need to hoover them out periodically, or they turn to dust and make the pipes cipher. Dead cats are less common, in my experience.
sharon.corbet
Okay, I know I requested more cat photos, but this wasn't quite what I meant :-)
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Via Trove, this from 1887 - " ... The tomb of the Earl of Kildare, a huge, plain structure, usurped the place of the high altar when altar and sacrifice were no longer needed; and a motley collection of other tombs, tablets, and statues (almost all of Protestant days) perpetuate the memory of local nonentities and historical villains in epitaphs "so flattering to all, that surely death hath claimed the good alone"—an instructive contrast with the plain, unvarnished date tale and the humble orate of the olden Catholic days. On a shelf stand two altar candle-sticks and a gilt tabernacle. An interrogatory look elicits from the custodian the unwilling information that they were kept over as relics of the time when King James set up Roman worship in Christ's Church — for a brief season. In reverent proximity to the tabernacle are the mummified bodies of a cat and a rat, discovered by some workmen wedged fast in a crevice behind the great organ. They are in excellent form and preservation. Every muscle in pussy's frame is strained to the utmost tension in unavailing efforts to reach the little rodent, who has taken refuge in a narrow slit in the wall, just one little inch beyond the reach of his pursuer's deadly claws. The custodian evidently looked upon the mummies as the gems of his collection, speaking of them with unwonted volubility, and "letting-off" for the thousandeth time a venerable jest about the fryingpan and the fire. ... From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170599522?searchTerm=c... (half way down column 4)
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Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2008 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/marto-marto/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/marto-marto/3310221848/
Foxglove
there may be numerous "cat" groups on Flickr that would love this in their sets ..... as long as it is a true BW and not tinted etc, a colleague once found a monkey head and complete pelt behind the shelves of an aged university dept library bookcase; no students ever record as lost in their books
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/129555378@N07/ Sharon, welcome to my World! http://www.flickr.com/photos/37107521@N00/ Cats ??
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
It looks to me as if the rat has been replaced. This theory needs, er, ratification. Paws for thought ...
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] I did have a vague recollection of someone mentioning (possibly on twitter) that the current rat was a replacement. And, yes, according to an article about a different Irish mummified cat, the Christ Church rat had been stolen recently. (The article is from 1990.)
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet A
catrat burglar!DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Very good.
oaktree_brian_1976
well then.
oaktree_brian_1976
I just got the pun. Pray. church... dead prey
Foxglove
as it gets closer to dinnertime my thoughts drift to "biltong". I'm sure that cat could be resurected... to follow church themes