Here, again slightly later than advertised, are the results for the picture quiz. The results mind, not the answers, you’ll find those already submitted on the previous post, published a few days ago, (go back there and have a look if there were any pictures you didn’t know) Thank you very much everyone who took… Read More Winners, Prizes, and Reflections, on the Dublin Picture Quiz.
yet another stunning set, of magical photographs, this time of icebergs, found and presented as always by one of my favourite bloggers, the great Morphes. Drink in deeply, inhale and enjoy…
These are the answers and results of the September/October 2013 Dublin Picture Quiz Competition… The answers are just below, underneath each picture. Obviously the competition was over and the winners were announced a long time ago. So don’t send in your answers. But we have left the quiz up online, in case people find it… Read More The Dublin Picture Quiz- the answers page !
Calling all Dubs and Dublin lovers, this is the Dublin picture Quiz. Please note the competition is now closed, (as of Monday 7th October, 2013! ) so we are not accepting answers and obviously the prizes were all given out a long time ago. But you can still test yourself against the pictures below. When… Read More the Dublin Decoded picture Quiz, from Oct 2013.
As an addendum to that last post on the old Library and scrumptious Long Room of Trinity College: a quick respectful nod today, to these lovely sculptural Busts that line the Long Room. Oh, these photos are my own, so if you “borrow” them, no problem for non-commercial purposes but please provide a photo credit, and a… Read More The Pantheon in the Library- the Sculpture Busts of Long Room Trinity College, Dublin
Here is a sight to which Dubliners, or indeed many who’ve visited Dublin, will need no introduction. (my photo) Yes, it’s the famous, justly famous, Long Room of Trinity College. It sits as the top level, the top two levels really, of the Old Library, that handsome old building which divides Library Square from Fellows’ Square in… Read More The Long Room | From superb to sublime.
Back in 2013, I invited readers of my blog to identify this mysterious looking map, below. As many people either knew or guessed, it’s a sketch concerning Ulysses, the legendary novel routinely claimed as the best or most influential tome of 20th century literature, and written of course by James Joyce (below). I had come across the… Read More Nabokov, Perec, Joyce & Bloom; Ulysses, Maps & Games.
Recently, we asked readers to identify what this drawing below was, and why it was never built. Many of you wrote in to say, very correctly it was Edwin Luytens’ design (one of at least two he did) in the 1900s, for the art collector and gallerist Hugh Lane. (Above: Hugh Lane, painted by John… Read More The Bridge, the Poet, the Aesthete, and his aunt.
Another dashed off post, and mini-quiz, not an easy one, but something a few readers may find it intriguing… Question 1- What is this? – above (author/artist and the subject please) Question 2- (tough) This is by a genius, about a genius, but i am pretty certain I’ve spotted quite a big error. Can… Read More What is this ?
Originally posted on Arran Q Henderson:
the following is a collection of images, collected over the last Open House weekend, last November, 4-5 months ago, from various walks, talks, visits and peregrinations during that lovely weekend… A few of these i’ll post on at some future point, but for now perhaps the images speak…
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