Do you mean this one?


I suppose one can look at it in a different way. May be it is not an organ but strange pipes (like Scots have pipes) in the middle of a forest. May be people can come up with better ideas.

I don't understand it too, but may be it is a representation of an old Finish instrument (artistic form of it). He is like an old trubadour. In my mind the word means blowing in tubes (in trumpets).
But I am not even sure I spelled it correctly.

Perhaps a set of wind chimes would have been more effective.

No t-p, we have one of these hanging in our porch 


I didn't know about the pipes, I just knew about the nice sculpture

I'm very interested in architecture, though I don't know anything about the study of it. When I'm in a new town, I walk around with my eyes looking up because old buildings have so many interesting features in their upper storeys and roofs. Buildings from a certain period will have windows that get smaller the higher they are (in careful proportions), and buildings from another period will have another feature, perhaps balconies or columns or round windows, but always something. And of course churches are filled with marvellous details inside and out.

You don't see that same kind of detail in modern buildings. Even though some modern buildings look wonderful (I really like The Sage in Gateshead, for example) they never seem to have the same attention to detail that old buildings have. They might have an interesting design but it's the same design all over. They are much more basic and functional.

This is one of two new sculptures in town. This is called emerging freedom. You can see a woman emerging. My friends don't like it. I thought it was not bad. It is by Behan.
He lives in the area and his statue is in front of UN in New York. (It is about famine).
He is an important personality here. There are two statues by him. Out of two I like this one the best. He likes to make statues of sheep and things, but it is difficult to get money because the price of material is so expensive. I thought he was a nice man. I saw him a few times. He was on a committee but never (hardly ever) attended.


The gentleman in the middle is the President of the University.

I don't know why they look so stiff on the picture. I don't know the official man. The are sharing power and this post has a different man (or women) every 3 or 6 months. It seems to me that every time there is a new person wearing that chain around the neck.
I don't know the third man. He is not Behan. The president is a lot of fun. He is going to retire next year. He is mathemetician (statistic I think) by training.
He is so funny and very nice chap (or fellow?). His wife is from Scotland. She grew up in Scotland. She is awfully nice. I love them both very much.
The university has nice traditions. They were very small University (700 students) for a while. But now they are in the XXI century. There are many different programs and many students (I think there are 100 students). There are other institutions in the area. There is GMIT. They are a little like Politech in England. They are University now too. They are doing some other things.
But the "big" University has many research programmes and good science and medico-bioligical studies, computer (artificial intelligence) etc. Medical faculty is connected with the hospital.
University attracted many foreign researchers. The last time at a coffee morning I talked to a nice Indian lady. She is a wife of somebody that just was hired. She complained to me bitterly about discrimination she felt while they lived in Germany (small town).
There are all kind of people here now. English department is very applied. I think they are interested in printing books more than in literature, but I don't really know.

They are University that has to help Irish language. They have an institute or something (School?).

It is kind of an interesting place to see.