Broadsides – A collection of bits and pieces
"Unprovided with original learning, uninformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog”
The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, holds a series of coffee morning talks on the paintings on exhibition in the gallery. Such talks are for about 40 minutes, followed by questions and then to coffee for a continuing discussion. This was my talk, on the 22nd June 2016, given before the great canvas (10' x... Continue Reading →
The Road to the Rising was an RTE History Festival held on O'Connell Street in Dublin on Easter Monday the 6th April. Over 50,000 people attended, dipping into and out of exhibits, street theatre, lectures, music, re-enactments and the screening of historical films. The Big Personalities series of lectures were limited to 20 minutes for each... Continue Reading →
None of the leaders of 1916 have touched the Irish as much as has Casement. He dreamed of the destiny of Ireland. And he was hung for his dreams. When his body, or the remains and traces of his body, came home to a free Ireland, a sovereign Ireland, then the Irish for whom he... Continue Reading →
In 1914, with war raging in Europe, Sir Roger Casement, a retired Irish born diplomat of the British Consular Service, with a distinguished record of service in Africa and South America, traveled to Germany, on behalf of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, with an audacious plan to persuade captured British soldiers of the Irish Regiments, to... Continue Reading →
John LAVERY (1856-1941): High Treason 1916. Oil on canvas, 214 x 322 cms . The canvas is huge: ten feet by seven feet and it hangs at the foot of the great marble staircase within the King's Inns,Dublin where it dominates the descent of the Benchers as they process on their way to dine. It... Continue Reading →
Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces 