Nick Maxwell By Tim Carey One of the best-known images of Dublin’s mid-twentieth-century cultural life is a cartoon called Dublin Culture. In it are nearly 40 people—all men—in the back room of the Palace Bar on Dublin’s Fleet Street. Among the tables and drinks there is a unique generation of journalists, writers and artists: Flann O’Brien is … Read more
By Madeline O’Neill In 1900 in Pienaarspoort, some fifteen miles east of Pretoria in the South African Transvaal Republic, an Irish Catholic major in the Connaught Rangers, Maurice George Moore, considered the orders forbidding him to provide supplies for a group of Boer women and children who had been removed from their farms. Insufficiently supplied … Read more
By Clare Moriarty The topic of mathematical beauty is not a new one. Aristotle, in Book 13 of the Metaphysics, ruminated on the beauty of various mathematical ideas and theorems, chastising those who sought to deny mathematics its aesthetic merit: ‘[T]hose who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good … Read more
By John Martin Many visitors to Killiney Hill Park stop at the viewing point just below the obelisk to enjoy the superb panorama over Killiney Bay and the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. Most of them would be surprised to learn that the wooded hillside sloping down to the Vico Road was the site in 1840–1 of a … Read more
By Damian Murphy The Curvilinear Range, considered the finest glasshouse in Ireland, was constructed by the notable Dublin ironmaster Richard Turner (c. 1798–1881) and the Hammersmith Iron Works. But while Turner was a constant presence on the project, several architects and builders had a hand in its creation. The origins of the glasshouse date back … Read more