in the coloured 1798 map above, the tiny, modern-day lane-way known now as Balfe St, very near the busy central shopping thoroughfare of Grafton St. was previously “Pitt St”. Can you see it above? If you follow Anne St right to left across Grafton St you’ll spot it. The name Pitt comes of course… Read More changed utterly: Dublin’s Streets and Mrs Peg Leeson.
Photo credit Declan Hackett Could there be anything nicer to do on a Sunday afternoon than a History walking tour, followed by wonderful concert of ultra- high quality music, performance, poetry, with a sociable glass of wine after? Well, what about if the concerts took place in some of the most beautiful historic… Read More History walking tours, followed by music, poetry and wine.
Recently we posted a picture quiz on Italian Renaissance artists. Press that link to have a go? before you read the answer below! Readers simply had to try to identify the artists, and/or their works, using the questions and hints below… Here are the answers! First section. Proto- Renaissance. Question #1 What’s the name… Read More Answers to Italian Renassaince Artists Quiz…
Originally posted on Wide and Convenient Streets:
Nearly one hundred and nine years ago, Colonel George W. Addison R. E. represented the Iveagh Trust at a ceremony to formally hand over the new Iveagh Markets to Dublin Corporation. Giving his thanks on receiving the deeds of conveyance and keys, the Lord Mayor expressed the hope that…
The novelist Will Self, and cartoonist Martin Rossen debate, or rather seem to generally agree on, the limits and responsibilities of satire, who the easy targets might be, and critically, where the real scrutiny and ire should be aimed, but usually isn’t. It made me wonder why not? The Charlie Hebdo editors, artists and staff… Read More What is satire for?
One of my favourite bloggers on Art, e-Morfes, here profiling in pictures the thought-provoking ideas and exquisitely made fabrications of UK artist Dominick Wilcox. I know you’ll enjoy these. 🙂
First Editions is a lovely little bookstore tucked into the quiet Pembroke Lane, the mews lane that connects Waterloo to Wellington Road, although sitting nearer the corner with Waterloo. Many years ago, this premises was “the Wee Stores” a grocer selling milk and newspapers, tea, tobacco and coal. As recounted by historian and writer Hugh… Read More First Editions: a treasure trove of books hidden in Ballsbridge.
Affectionately known as “the Dead Zoo” to Dubliners, the Natural History Museum on Merrion Square was founded in 1856. Mercifully almost untouched ever since, it’s now a bewitching Victorian legacy, regularly described as a “museum that belongs in a museum”. As a regular devotee and fan, I’m honoured to show you just a few of… Read More Animal Magic, and dramatic tableau, at the Natural History Museum of Dublin.
the ancient city of Kilkenny lies on the west bank of the River Nore as it runs North to South. The southern end of the town is dominated by the huge Butler castle, while to the north, just outside the lines of the old city wall, towers St Canice’s Cathedral. The geography is clear from… Read More St Canice’s Cathedral of Kilkenny
When the weather is fine and bright as it was today, (after some truly but unusually Biblical scale rainfall yesterday) there are few greater pleasures in life than a long rambling walk through the historic parts of old Dublin city. This piece of modern street art, at the start of my epic circumnavigation, summed up… Read More a Dublin city walk along Thomas St, via St Catherines & James Gate, to Dean Swift’s St Patricks Hosptital
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