Dr John Wallace looks at a new book on Trinity College Dublin and its progression through the acdemic year. Its history goes back much further, however, to 1166. The Trinity Year is a tribute to Ireland’s earliest university. Trinity College, unusually, is located in the middle of a capital city and is known for both [...]
Foodies braved the threat of bad weather to sample what Dublin’s best restaurants are offering at the Taste of Dublin festival, writes Niamh Mullen. Food heaven is the best way to describe the Taste of Dublin festival. Now in its fourth year, the festival took place from Thursday, June 11 to Sunday, June 14 — [...]
Dr Charles Dupont offers some helpful hints that you should bear in mind, if you are considering recording your memoirs for posterity. When a reporter once asked Noel Coward, ‘Is it true that you drink champagne for breakfast?’, he replied, ‘Doesn’t everybody?’ If somebody enquires as to whether you intend to write your life story [...]
Giovanni Morelli writes that Diogenes, who spent his days living in a barrel, reminds him of a novel scheme where customers can buy barrels of their own wine ‘What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others’ — Diogenes. In these times of despair and depression, perhaps Diogenes (who lived around 400 [...]
Niamh Mullen speaks to Prof Colin Bradley, whose photographs are on exhibition in UCC, along with those of Dr Colman Casey and Dr Frank van Pelt Accidental artist Prof Colin Bradley’s first exhibition of photography runs at the Jennings Gallery in University College Cork (UCC) this month. The head of the Department of General Practice [...]
Berna Cox says that she used to be a loyal shopper but she now sees the value in being able to go anywhere and buy anything without ‘thrift guilt’. A couple of years ago, I was doing my supermarket shopping one day and when I got to the checkout, I put my loyalty card on [...]
Dr John Wallace looks at the major exhibition in Dublin of the work of the short-lived Wexford painter Thomas Roberts. Roberts is considered to be a painter of European significance — despite being virtually unknown outside of Ireland. Thomas Roberts, the greatest Irish landscape painter of the eighteenth century, died of consumption in Lisbon in [...]
Shirley Lanigan writes that now is the time to really get busy in the vegetable garden and you will soon see the fruits of your labours… literally! Ornamental gardens are generally at their best at this time of year. This means that for a few weeks at least, it is possible to sit back and [...]
Berna Cox on the spate of books that asks women to return to the model of the perfect housewife that existed in the 1950s — which is just not on in the modern world, she says. Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. This is the first line of Tammy Wynette’s famous song. Sometimes it’s [...]
Shirley Lanigan says that now is the time to get planting beans, courgettes and pumpkins and offers some tips for getting the most out of these plants this year While many of the vegetables that we can grow outside are already in the ground and faring nicely, there are some crops that really must wait [...]
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