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Woodquay symbols above doors

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    #32
    Davyhal
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    Treadhead wrote: »
    As a kid I used to think it meant there was a Garda living in the house... sure were a lot of Gards in woodquay! ;)

    I believed that it was a Guard lived there as well! I didn't think Guards still lived there, but I thought that a guard must have lived there at some point and the tile was still there....

    I use the past tense "believed" as I learned reading this thread over the last 3 minutes that this is incorrect...


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    #33
    Meemars
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    I heard it had something to do with the Eucharistic Congress in 1932. Perhaps that's when the houses were built.
    My mother was born in 1932, and says that when she and her classmates made their Communion a few years later, they were given medals with the same crest, because their birth year coincided with the Eucharistic Congress. So she figured that any houses with the same plaque must have been built in 1932. (She was not brought up in Galway though, so wouldn't remember the area at the time)


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    dan hibiki
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    im fairly sure that these symbols are an indication that heroin may be purchased from the home owner.


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    #35
    brandnewaward
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    eagle10 wrote: »
    afaik they are blue plaques that at a glance look like little garda symbols.

    They read IHS it means "I have sin(ned)" JUst an old religous thing to the best of my knowledge you see them on older houses around henry street too


    IHS is short hand latin for jesus


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    #36
    Gambas
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    I have sinned?

    I have suffered?

    I Haz Sheezburger!


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    BhoscaCapall
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    dan hibiki wrote: »
    im fairly sure that these symbols are an indication that heroin may be purchased from the home owner.
    Would explain why I'm going out of business. Where can I get one fitted?


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    Mrs OBumble
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    BhoscaCapall wrote: »
    Would explain why I'm going out of business. Where can I get one fitted?

    These days i think you have to apply directly to the Pope.


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    #39
    inisboffin
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    Treadhead wrote: »
    As a kid I used to think it meant there was a Garda living in the house... sure were a lot of Gards in woodquay! ;)

    Forgot I used to as well!

    For those who couldn't be arsed to read the thread, and are having the Latin/Greek/I Have Sweeties debate, here's a linky :)


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    #40
    bagels
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    IHS
    way back in my schooldays i was told it meant "in his name", ie in God's name


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    2rkehij30qtza5
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    bagels wrote: »
    IHS
    way back in my schooldays i was told it meant "in his name", ie in God's name


    IHS means, in Latin 'Iuses Hominum Salvator' meaning Jesus Savior of Men.
    The small blue plaques were put above doors in 1954 to mark the Marian Year. I just asked my mother, she is 100% sure of this.


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    From Galway Independent

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    #43
    Rebloom
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    Amazing that this thread went for 3 pages before someone rightly said that IHS meant Iesus Hominum Salvator "Jesus Savious or men" Latin of course and on His Cross when he dies was written INRI Iēsus Nazarēnus, Rēx Iūdaeōrum Jesus the Nazareen King of the Jews.
    The Symbols were put up in the Marian Year and other similar symbols are on houses in other parts of Ireland I believe I have seen them in Limerick. Marian year of 1954 was decreed by Pope Pius


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    #44
    thesandeman
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    ^
    How the fk did you manage to find this thread?


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    #45
    Mrs OBumble
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    thesandeman wrote: »
    ^
    How the fk did you manage to find this thread?

    Blessed with out-of-this-world Google fu.


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    MixedMessages
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    Not just in Galway

    Ennis has quite a few; Limerick, Cork & Athlone has some.

    Also Ballinrobe, Annascaul, Dublin and Ennistymon


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    #47
    MixedMessages
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    It appears that they were originally made for retreat by Franciscan friar, Fr Francis Donnelly, in 1914.

    In 1932, around the Eucharistic Congress more were fitted - the one in Dublin has 1929 date. When I met a houseowner outside Ennis, I was told the tile was put on house when built in 1932.

    A new range was made in 2014

    http://readingthesigns.weebly.com/dublin-yhs-tiles.html


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