Visiting the Celtic countries is always a sobering experience for an English woman interested in history. The long and bloody past of the Irish has always hung heavy on me. I came to understand quite clearly, with the instinct that a teenager has for bull-shit, the meaning of the word propaganda. I knew I was …
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Marsh’s Library
Marsh’s Library The smell of ancient books; fusty, dusty and acrid. So deliciously noxious. As though with every breath, particles of history sweep into your lungs and enter your bloodstream. Mr Joyce (James of course) met Mr Stoker (nephew to Mr Bram Stoker that is) in October 1902 in the reading room. Apparently there were …
Where there’s muck there’s honesty
I saw the film Made in Dagenham – set in 1968 and about the dispute which led to the equal pay act in Britain. It is not the attitudes which take me back – it is the griminess that evokes the era for me. Brick walls, crumbling concrete and a feeling of decay – old …
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