Here’s a question: When does Christmas start? This year, I saw adverts for Christmas party nights as early as July; Christmas merchandise was creeping into the shops in August; and by the time Hallowe’en came around, the witches’ hats and Batman outfits vied for shelf space with the Singing Santas and fairy lights. We’ve all [...]
I don’t know the contents of the late Charles J Haughey’s wine cellar but I believe they were impressive. But however extensive his cellar was, I’m sure it could not compete with the cellars stocked by Jacques Chirac when he was mayor of Paris. Apparently Jacques liked to entertain in style and still does. The [...]
Up until relatively recently, I was quite content that I knew who I was and where I came from. I remember both my grandmothers and, whereas both my grandfathers were deceased before I came on the scene, family stories abound about them and their fathers before them. Both my parents’ families hailed from the locality [...]
My interest in the role of arts in health began over four years ago as an undergraduate music student in Trinity College Dublin. I recall being intrigued and inspired by a Monday afternoon colloquium on music therapy presented by Dr Jane Edwards, University of Limerick. This presentation of Dr Edwards’ work with burns patients had [...]
Paolo Uccello is regarded as one of the most distinctive artists of the early Renaissance period and his painting Virgin and Child in the Irish National Gallery is regarded as one of his masterpieces. He was called ‘Uccello’, meaning ‘bird’ as he loved animals and kept many paintings of birds in his studio. Our first [...]
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