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‘Small things like these’
Read more…: ‘Small things like these’Christmas is coming. And maybe this time, instead of Dickens, we could read Claire Keegan. Instead of A Christmas Carol, Small Things Like These, a Booker Prize finalist from three years ago. A moving story full of Christmas spirit, about the power of everyday choices. How small acts of kindness can save lives and stand…
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Virginia Woolf’s London [1]
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Read more…: Virginia Woolf’s London [1]22 Hyde Park Gate While visiting London recently, I couldn’t resist returning to this place. I sat on the steps across the street and gazed at the stately townhouse where Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882, as Adeline Virginia Stephen, the youngest daughter of the successful author and critic Sir Leslie Stephen. With…
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The Gravediggers
Read more…: The GravediggersGlasnevin Cemetery in Dublin is a national cemetery for the Irish, established in 1832. It is the final resting place of over a million people, including many famous and distinguished Irishmen. Right next to one of the cemetery gates is a pub with the charming name ‘The Gravediggers’, founded by John Kavanagh in 1833. Kavanagh…
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The House of the Dead
Read more…: The House of the Dead15 Usher’s Island in Dublin, Ireland, is a classic Georgian townhouse overlooking the River Liffey. It’s an important part of literary history. In the late 1800s, the house was home to the grand-aunts of writer James Joyce, who also ran a music school there. Their home later became the setting for one of Joyce’s most…
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The Five
Read more…: The FiveInspired by a winter read, I decided to spend the summer walking through the streets of London’s East End, which in the late 19th century became the stage for one of the darkest stories of modern times. In the summer and autumn of 1888, five women lost their lives in the alleys of Whitechapel: Mary…
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Music is a woman!
Read more…: Music is a woman!A few thoughts from the borderland of literature and music, marking today’s International Music Day. When reading the novelised biography The Pianist: Clara Schumann and the Music of Love by Beate Rygiert, one cannot help but wonder: how many talents have been lost or forgotten simply because they belonged to women? Clara and her art…
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Remembering the Aran Islands
Read more…: Remembering the Aran IslandsWhile reading So it goes. Travels in the Aran Isles, Xian and places between by Nicolas Bouvier, I recall my visit to Inis Inis Mór, the largest of the Aran Islands on the West coast of Ireland. And while life on the island may seem blissful and idyllic in the innocent July weather, the truth…
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