Does anyone in the great wide world know if multiple award-winning coachbuilder W. Dwyer of Sydney is related to award winning coachbuilder John Dwyer of Castlebar, Co Mayo? Both were working in the 19th, early 20th centuries. I believe the enterprise in Castlebar didn’t close till the mid-to-late- 1920s. This is what the National Library [...]
I was looking forward to Paula Meehan’s reading in the National Gallery here in Dublin today at 1pm, but I just couldn’t get myself into gear. Damn! Sorry Paula. I’m sure it was jammed, knowing your fanbase of old. And then one of my cousines, Marie-Claire, rang me to let me know of an interesting [...]
Casimir Markievicz: portrait of the artist, by Wanda Smolin in the Polish House, 20 Fitzwilliam Place on Thursday, February 19th at 7.30pm. Wanda Smolin is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow where she studied History of Art. She has worked in the National Gallery of Ireland from 1981 to 1989 and subsequently as [...]
To those who pop in from time to time to see what’s here, apologies that there hasn’t really very much for a very long time. I hope to be back in the swing of things before too long. Meanwhile, enjoy the sleet, wind and snow… Philip