The north cathedral

This is not a splendid Cathedral. It is officially named St Mary’s Cathedral but nobody calls it that — they say the North Cathedral or the Catholic Cathedral. It is a little bit dulL. Some priests are buried out the front of it. Inside the place is shining in white marble. It used to have a very dark interior. There is a painting of from 1921 when Terence MacSwiney was buried there after his hunger strike in London. The darkness of the cathedral contrasts markedly with the gleam from the Irish Tricolour draped on the casket of the dead Lord Mayor — but perhaps the artist is trying to make a point about the IRA man being ‘illumined in glory’.
Anyhow this cathedral is only a 19^th centur edifice — the historical cathedral having been appropriated by the Church of Ireland at its inception in the 1530s.