LONG LIVE LIFE! CASIMIR MARKIEVICZ: A POLISH ARTIST IN BOHEMIAN DUBLIN

By Emily Mark-FitzGerald and Kathryn Milligan On a Paris evening in early 1899, two Polish friends arrived at a ball attended by fellow international art students, drawn to the hedonistic atmosphere of the fin-de-siècle city and its artistic charms. One of the young men—the writer Stefan Krzywoszewski—was struck by a young Irishwoman present, ‘who appeared … Read more

ON THIS DAY

BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 17/1349 ‘Seeing these many ills and how the whole world is, as it were, in an ill plight among the dead expecting death’s coming, I have set them down in writing, truthfully as I have heard them and tested them; and lest the writing should perish with the writer and the … Read more