This text is moving. This feast is moving. Hi to all my kind, loyal and highly-discerning readers and visitors. Please note, I’ll be posting more and more of my posts on the new Blog Dublin Decoded and I’d love to take you with me, so if or when you vist, please take a second… Read More Moveable Feast, and Moving to Org.
In the car yesterday, on the way to the second year of the wonderful History Festival of Ireland. The Festival itself was super, and I’ll post about that directly in the next few days. But even the trip down, through the landscapes of county Kildare and county Carlow, was a treat too, with mad mix of… Read More Driving into History, and towards Ducketts Grove.
A week or so back you may recall, we walked Dun Laoghaire’s west pier, home to this lovely Green painted light house. (below) From here we could look across the harbour, to the East Pier, and its Red painted lighthouse, a hundred metres or so away. This looks tempting, no? So today, in the interests… Read More East is East | Dun Laoghaire’s Piers, part deux.
Yesterday I made my first appearance on radio, live from the gloomy majesty of old Saint Patrick’s Cathedral here in Dublin. It was both a great privilege and, quite frankly, absolutely terrifying. Hang on, does one even “appear” on radio? Oh well, anyway. I was in Saint Patrick’s as the guest contributor to the lovely DublinCity FM radio… Read More Dublin Decoded on the radio… how will we sound? (Gulp)
Just scarcely over 5 years ago, this May, my great friends Lindsey & Ed got married in excellent Gunthorpe, this rather splendid old English country house below. The whole thing set in its own estate, amid the countryside of lovely rural Norfolk, and the whole glorious ensemble includes terraced gardens with fountains, a walled herb… Read More Gunthorpe Revisited.
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 better for themselves. Taken together,… Read More The Things I see…
Just a few days after posting on First World War recruitment posters, (seen at an exhibition in Collins Barrack in Dublin) it is now Saint Patrick’s weekend here in Dublin. Earlier today, myself and a friend participate in a treasure hunt around the city, and on our tour, we come across this image above. I felt… Read More Addendum: “Be Honest with Yourself… ” & Kitchener versus Beckett.
Every autumn, there are two wonderful events in Dublin. The first, in September is called “Culture Night” which is pretty self-explanatory but covers all the arts. The second event is called “Open House”. It aims to interest and engage and to give people direct access to architecture, from old medieval and Georgian buildings, to the latest bits of… Read More Autumn, when Dublin comes to Life. a little picture essay of Pearse St.
I was about to abandon the little memoir of my recent Paris jaunt, and blog instead about other things. Time- after all- marches on. Tempus fugit and all that. But then I looked at some photos saved on the computer, of statues, saints and angels, one of Mary Magdalene even. Inevitably, thoughts turned to Paris… Read More Another day in Paris-dise (or Hell for the unlucky)
Since Christmas is a time for families, and since my sister and my niece were not with us this year, my mother and I made a slightly late-in-the day, slightly haphazard and snap decision to go to Paris for 5 days, setting off the morning after Stephen’s Day. I am not going to pretend it… Read More We’ll always have Paris.
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