Tag: Ireland
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Dublin | The Little Museum
There’s a Georgian townhouse on St. Stephen’s Green in which the history of twentieth century Dublin fills the rooms. It is called The Little Museum of Dublin. It’s like being in the home of an elderly aunt that can’t get rid of anything – except that, in this case, each and every one of the…
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Dublin | The Fumbally
On the corner of New South Street and Fumbally Lane in Dublin is a large, modern apartment building. Follow your nose into the door at its corner, and step into the cavernous, cozy, warm, welcoming café that is The Fumbally. Here’s the exterior: And here’s what you encounter when you step through the door: The…
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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
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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
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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