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KaaBloomsday, June 16, 2010 

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Philip Casey
James Joyce and Kaa Boyd

you can click to enlarge and see slide show (hover mouse over middle right or left edge). June 16 is of course famous throughout the world as Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce first walked out with his future wife Nora Barnacle, an event he marked by setting his novel Ulysses on that day. [...]

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Dwyers: 19th Century coachbuilders 

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Philip Casey
Dwyer and Son, Dublin Spring Show

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 [...]

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