Author: admin
-
Style Moment | Ballinderry Park, County Galway
“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements of human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” John Lubbock (1834-1913) English biologist
-
Weird but Wonderful | Double Meaning
“Man eating chicken.” Sign in front of a restaurant in Dublin, Ireland
-
Eye on Design | Dublin | Avoca Style
Avoca is a fabulous store in Ireland that sells all manner of great Irish products…but it was in the café where I found eye-catching design ideas, including the magnificent Mediterranean platter laid out on a vintage wooden cutting board like a work of art.
-
Style Moment | Mantle in a Georgian house, Ireland
“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.” William Morris (1834-1896) English textile designer, artist, and writer
-
Connemara | A Savage Beauty
I’m a “details” kind of person . . . my eagle eye can spot a treasure among any flea market heap. Because of this, I find myself dumbstruck among vast expanses of scenery. Nowhere was this more true than in the extraordinary Connemara region of Ireland. There’s a road, aptly called Sky Road, that curves…
-
Style Moment | Ballinderry Park, Ireland
“Beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist
-
Ireland | Two Days, Three Counties | Day Two
Ireland is the living, breathing definition of the word “enchanting.” Just look at the scene above if you have any doubt. (Truth be told I was in such a state of euphoria that I first thought the white horse might be a unicorn.) Okay, let’s get back to reality, and the two day, three county…
-
Weird but Wonderful | Testing Fate
Cruise ship in Cobh harbor, Ireland…last port of call for the Titanic.
-
Ireland | Two days, Three Counties | Day One
Ireland is a country full of wonderfulness, split up into charming counties that each have multitudes of things to see and do. Really, you could spend months there and not see everything. As it happens, I had two days.
-
Style Moment | Irish pottery
“Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has ever known.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish writer and poet
