MideImage 21-03-2026

The Kingdom of Mide.

Meath (/miːð/ MEEDH; Modern Irish: Mí; Old Irish: Mide [ˈmʲiðʲe]) was a kingdom in Ireland from the 1st to the 12th century AD. Its name means "middle," denoting its location in the middle of the island.

At its greatest extent, it included all of County Meath (which takes its name from the kingdom), all of County Westmeath, and parts of counties Cavan, Dublin, Kildare, Longford, Louth and Offaly.

The Hill of Uisneach sits in County Westmeath, right at the heart of Ireland’s Ancient East and at the geographic centre of the country. Tightly bound in history and spirituality alongside the nearby Hill of Tara, Uisneach is an especially significant site in Ireland’s ancient history. Amongst the scattered monuments on and around what James Joyce once called a “mountainy molehill” are buried tombs and Neolithic chambers, standing stones and holy wells. The stories of Irish legends like St. Patrick, St. Brigid and the Kings of Meath all pass through here.

On the southwest side of the hill sits the Cat Stone, a limestone rock that rises nearly 20-feet out of the ground. The Cat Stone is descibed as an ancient omphalos that marks the centre of the earth for cultures in the region, much like those that once stood at Delphi in ancient Greece and Cusco in Peru. Beneath this “navel stone,” the stories say, rests the goddess Éire, Ireland’s mother earth and the deity from whom the country takes its name. (In Irish, Ireland is called “Éire,” pronounced “air-uh.”) She was one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the Bright and Shining Ones who ruled from here.

What MideImage offers:

High quality image copying either wall mounted artwork (as below) or copy stand and lighted work.
Film negative scanning sizes 35mm to 10x8 plate.
Flat artwork and photo scanning to 10x8.
Original artwork photography.
Historic building photography.

All scanning of flat artwork and negatives via a high quality, professional scanner at sizes and quality to suit the customer.

Files can be provided in both jpeg / tiff format.

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Photographic information.

Images on this site are shot on a variety of cameras- Film, a smartphone (!) and various digital cameras. Mostly Canons. A Canon G5X Mk2 with a 1" sensor for some of the smaller images and a full frame Canon R6 for the rest. Horses for courses. Lenses used are mostly Canon full frame lenses: 16, 35 and 45mm primes with a 24-105 F4 zoom.

The film cameras are a vintage and almost mint 35mm Canon Canonet which provides surprisingly good images at 40+ years old and an even older 1950's Japanese 6x6 roll film camera. Oddly the 6x6 produces the sharpest images of all of them....

Artwork.
Copies of fine art for record and pleasure.

All the above are copies shot from the originals by MideImage.

Please contact the site if the viewer has a query regarding copyright.

William John Leech (Irish, 1881–1968)

Title: "The Sunshade", 1913.

Medium: Oil on Canvas.

Dimensions: 81 × 65 cm.

Location: National Gallery of Ireland.

Sir John Lavery (Irish, 1846-1941)

Title: "The Tennis Match" 1885

Medium: "Oil on Panel"

Evie Hone (Irish, 1895–1955)

Medium: Stained Glass

Location: National Gallery of Ireland.

Patrick Swift (Irish, 1927- 1983)

Title: "Girl in a Garden"

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Location: National Gallery of Ireland.

Mosaic Art.

Mullingar Christ the King Cathedral.

Mosaics By Boris Anrep.

Left side- St Anne Mosaic, Marian Year 1954, by Boris Anrep, Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar.

Right side- St Patrick, Pascal Fire Hill of Slane, Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar.

Wikipedia.

Boris Vasilyevich Anrep (Russian: Борис Васильевич Анреп; 27 September [O.S. 15 September] 1883 – 7 June 1969) was a Russian artist, active in Britain, who devoted himself to the art of mosaic.

In Britain, he is known for his monumental mosaics at the National Gallery, London, Westminster Cathedral and the Bank of England. Being close to the Bloomsbury Group, he was a noticeable figure in London social and intellectual life from 1912 up to the mid-1960s. In Ireland, he is known for his mosaics at Christ the King Cathedral, Mullingar. In Russia, he is associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry as the addressee of many beautiful poems by Anna Akhmatova, including her Tale of the Black Ring. Anrep was also friendly with Nikolai Gumilev, an outstanding poet and Akhmatova's husband, and Nikolay Nedobrovo, a talented critic, two prominent figures of the 1910s in Saint Petersburg.

Wikipedia.

Cathedral of Christ the King (Irish: Ardeaglais Chríost an Rí) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland.[1] It is situated near the centre of Mullingar next to the Royal Canal. The cathedral is both the cathedral church of the Diocese of Meath and the principal centre of worship in the catholic parish of Mullingar, including parts of counties Meath and Westmeath.[2]

Designed to replace the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (1836-1936), planning commenced in 1920. Granite was supplied from the quarries at Barnacullia, County Dublin.[3]: 12:32 William Byrne & Sons of Dublin designed the cathedral to be basilican in form and renaissance in style. Its distinctive twin towers, surmounted by bronze crosses, rise to a height of about 55 metres. It was built with a seating capacity of 5,000. Building began in March 1933 and the foundation stone was laid on 6 August of that year by Bishop Thomas Mulvany. Murphy of Dublin were the builders, while much of the artistic decoration work was completed by Earley and Company of Camden Street, Dublin, and Oppenheimer Ltd., of Old Trafford, Manchester. The formal opening and dedication of the new cathedral took place on 6 September 1936. At the request of Pope Pius XI, it became the first cathedral in the world to be dedicated to Christ the King. It was solemnly consecrated on 13 August 1939.