#certeau

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apracticeforeverydaylife.com

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Our legends and ghost stories about place help us understand the otherwise inanimate bricks and stones that line our streets; we feel a need to be haunted by the silent spirits that animate our material environments with our longings [...]. A White Lady is a [...] ghostly presence in the folklore and mythology of many cultures [...]. In Ireland, she may be [...] known as the grieving bride who inhabits Dun Chathail, Charlesfort, a seventeenth-century defensive fortress located near the water in Kinsale [...]. More recently she has appeared as an elderly woman in a remote part of County Tyrone in Northern Ireland [...] near Coalisland [...], attracting many spirit hunters [...] jealous of the young people in the neighborhood upon whom the White Lady has smiled. The White Lady is also a sentinel that haunts and protects our shorelines, such as the weathered, figure-shaped standing stone on farmland in Dunmore East [...] located near a cliff between the small coves of Rathmoylan and Ballymacaw. As she looks out across the Irish Sea, we are left to wonder [...]. [T]oday she gives us her gift of inciting stories about her [...] presence gliding between land and sea. [...]

Earlier this year [2014], artist Kathryn Maguire worked with the young people of Sheriff Street to explore this particular Dublin phenomenon [...] and her psyche of place. [...] [T]he sculptures created by twelve young people of Sheriff Street invite us to walk the streets of Dublin in search of [...] meanings of the White Lady. [...] [H]er presence reminds us of our historic relationship with the docklands, the River Liffey and the Irish Sea. For locals from Sheriff Street to Cabra, she is said to embody the Virgin Mary, Maid Marian or Molly Malone [...]. For still others, she is a beacon of hope, like a lit candle, for families who have a child in Mountjoy prison. Bloggers have suggested other reasons for her popularity: “the twinned statues in upstairs and downstairs windows [function] as a sign that the same person lives on both floors of the house, unlike in tenement times when [...] individual rooms would be occupied by different families”; or: it “means the mother of the family is single or widowed [...].”

Or you can make your own Lady on the Rock. Young people have a gift of seeing the spectral [...]. What did these ten-year-olds have to say about her? She represents: [...] “a Goddess”, “Strength”, “Glamour”, “Hurt”; “she comes alive at night to watch me sleep” [...].

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Karen E. Till. “The White Lady Beckons.” Eye on the World: A blog written by staff and students at Maynooth University’s Department of Geography. 28 December 2014.

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Left behind, #2

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A lovely sans serif typeface called Certeau from the design studio 'A Practice for Every Day Life'

A Practice for Everyday Life is a multidisciplinary studio for graphic design, art direction and type design, based in London.