I f the buildings around St Patrick's Tower in Dublin are now the Digital Hub, as they are, then I suppose the tower's green dome must be the Digital Hubcap. But the upper reaches of what used to be a windmill are still off-limits to the public. And the f... See more
S eventy years ago this Friday, October 23rd, 1956, thousands of protesters gathered at a square in Budapest to demand the end of communist rule. It was the start of the Hungarian uprising, which lasted for 15 days until brutally crushed by Soviet tanks a... See more
Tom Shortt is a brother of Pat , the comedian. But when, in describing an event he invited me to in Tallaght last Friday night, he used the term 'breakout exhibition', I don't think it was meant as a joke. The affable Tom is arts officer with the Irish Pr... See more
T he mysterious smashing of a Chinese porcelain bowl in the British Museum recently appears to have been the work of a notorious recidivist vandal, celebrated in verse. The rare, 300-year-old artefact fell from a shelf in its case on October 4th and, so d... See more
Down around World's End Lane on Wednesday, for the Dublin Festival of History table quiz, I was struck by a sudden gloom. It was cast not just by the onset of October but also by the Loop Line Bridge, which was over my head at the time. 'The what lane?' y... See more
