Jun 2009
Ten Years Tasting the Delights of Tuscany
27 June 2023
Christie's introduce an Old Master auction with a difference
Christie's, the London fine art auctioneers, have introduced a new kind of Old Master auction bringing together early Flemish and Dutch paintings, Italian Renaissance masterpieces and great works from the 19th century. The first sale under this mixed dispensation takes place on July 7. Read More...
Christie's, the London fine art auctioneers, have introduced a new kind of Old Master auction bringing together early Flemish and Dutch paintings, Italian Renaissance masterpieces and great works from the 19th century. The first sale under this mixed dispensation takes place on July 7. Read More...
Still celebrating Joyce with relish
20 June 2023
The Bloomsday festivities are a fitting tribute to this great writer
Tuesday was an impeccable Bloomsday, the morning weather as fine as we have seen in recent years for this event and it brought out the faithful, the curious and the hungry to feed at Caviston's in Glasthule -- one of the great Dublin food institutions -- as well as at other hostelries around the city. Read More...
Tuesday was an impeccable Bloomsday, the morning weather as fine as we have seen in recent years for this event and it brought out the faithful, the curious and the hungry to feed at Caviston's in Glasthule -- one of the great Dublin food institutions -- as well as at other hostelries around the city. Read More...
I will arise and go back to Sligo
13 June 2023
Looking back on 50 years of the Yeats Summer School
I shall be returning to Sligo for the Yeats International Summer School in August. The occasion is the 50th anniversary in a not untroubled history. The Yeats Society was founded in 1958, the year I first visited that part of Ireland and met the agreeable founder of the Yeats International Summer School, Tom Henn. He was the cousin of a Sligo friend and lived in a beautiful house in Co Clare called Paradise. He was then a well-known academic at Cambridge and famous among Yeats lovers for his early work of critical interpretation, The Lonely Tower. Read More...
I shall be returning to Sligo for the Yeats International Summer School in August. The occasion is the 50th anniversary in a not untroubled history. The Yeats Society was founded in 1958, the year I first visited that part of Ireland and met the agreeable founder of the Yeats International Summer School, Tom Henn. He was the cousin of a Sligo friend and lived in a beautiful house in Co Clare called Paradise. He was then a well-known academic at Cambridge and famous among Yeats lovers for his early work of critical interpretation, The Lonely Tower. Read More...