@MiriamOCal Observed and admired from his UCD days, first caps, schoolboy ticketd to Landsdowne games. At school with a cousin. His amusement about autographs. Fine head of hair.
'So off they started about Irish sports and shoneen games the like of lawn tennis and about hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation once again and all to that. And of course Bloom had to have his say too ...'
[U]
Patrick Pearse was born, 10 November 1879, at 27 Great Brunswick (now Pearse) Street in Dublin city centre. His family lived above his father's stone carving business and in his unfinished autobiography, he recorded his vivid evocative memories.
'Stephen looked at his thinly clad mother and remembered that a few days before he had seen a mantle priced at twenty guineas in the windows of Barnardo's.'
#Otd 2000: The original manuscript of James Joyce’s Ulysses went on display at the @CBL_Dublin in @dublincastleopw! The exhibition ran from June until October 2000. https://t.co/6bVtX3d5UQ
'The devil mostly speaks a language of his own called Bellsybabble which he makes up himself as he goes along but when he is very angry he can speak quite bad French very well though some who have heard him say that he has a strong Dublin accent.'
Devil in Red
Edward Hopper.
@lorraineelizab6@NLIreland My uncle, Noel, shortly after joined RAF, was in Radar.
Thought the Luftwaffe were overhead to bomb Granny's on Seville Place.
Adolf's orders.
Leonard Cohen and Sonny Rollins playing “Who By Fire” on NBC’s one of a kind Nightmusic (1989). We have the late Hal Wilner and David Sanborn to thank for dreaming up and producing the greatest music show that’s ever been on tv.
WATCH: Reception to honour the Irish rugby team that won the Grand Slam in 1948 RTÉ News reports #OnThisDay in 1986 https://t.co/8SjVwSMqZb From the RTÉ Archives News Collection