historysI’ve been loving finding out where my family was in 1911.
My maternal grandmother, Mary, was one year old. Her dad, Denis, was a “General Labourer”. Her mother was Julia, née O’Reilly. They lived in a room in a tenement block with her infant brother in Smithfield North Side, Dublin. (Probably within a stone’s throw of [...]
Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. One of his great works, the notebook called the Codex Leicester, is on display in Dublin at the moment. I went along to re-acquaint myself with a man I haven’t really considered since school, and I found myself in [...]
Lennox Robinson’s 1926 play, The Big House, resurrected after 75 years at the Abbey Theatre in a production by Conall Morrison, is, on the face of it, something of a curate’s egg. The important questions, whether it is worth reviving, and whether or not I would recommend it, are not easy to answer.
In order to [...]
Interesting
