BY TONY CANAVAN Big plans for small paintings put on hold The exhibition of a collection of Irish miniature portraits, which took more than 40 years to assemble, has had to be put on hold because of COVID-19. Sold recently at auction in London for £98,000, the Comerford Collection, which consists of 121 items, has … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY JULY 04/1931 Willie Millar, actor, born in Glengormley in north Belfast, one of nine children of a poor Presbyterian family. Back in 1959 the must-see movie was the William Wyler-directed adaptation of the Lew Wallace bestseller Ben-Hur (1880), or Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, to give it its full title, a … Read more
BY FELIX M. LARKIN Martyn Turner, the Irish Times cartoonist since the 1970s, recently announced in the ‘Irishman’s Diary’ column in that newspaper that he had become an Irish citizen. Congratulations to him on that, but let’s hope it doesn’t diminish the acuity with which he comments in his cartoons on our follies and foibles. … Read more
BY JAMES O’NEILL On 22 May 2020, archaeologists in Valladolid, Spain, reported the discovery of bones at an excavation to find the last resting place of Red Hugh O’Donnell, lord of Tirconnell. The news provoked significant interest from both the national and social media, with much tweeting and comment on the possible rediscovery of one … Read more