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Showing posts with label Blessington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blessington. Show all posts
30 September 2024

Two Saint Johns in Hampstead:
200 years of controversies at
Saint John’s, Downshire Hill

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Saint John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead … a proprietary chapel that is not a parish church in the Diocese of London (Photograph: Patrick Come...
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13 August 2024

The Iveagh Gardens, one
of the best-kept secrets
in Dublin, and the challenge
to defend human rights

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The Iveagh Gardens in Dublin were designed by Ninian Niven in a mixture of the ‘French Formal’ and the ‘English Landscape’ styles (Photograp...
25 May 2019

A tangled family tree saw
the loss of a great house,
art collection and family titles

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Russborough House, near Blessington, Co Wicklow, home to generations of the Leeson family and the Earls of Milltown (Photograph: Patrick Co...
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20 November 2016

Winter begins to close in on
the mountains and the valleys

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Winter skies near Blessington, Co Wicklow, this evening (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2016) Patrick Comerford Autumn has turned to w...
07 February 2016

The kidnapped schoolboy
who inspired novels is still
remembered in Bunclody

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James Annesley (1715-1760) … the schoolboy from Co Wexford whose story inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ Patrick Comerford ...
23 August 2015

A tour of Russborough House in the rain
to delight historians of art and architecture

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The Library in Russborough House, near Blessington, Co Wickow, with one of the three stucco ceilings in the house by the Lafranchini brothe...
21 November 2014

Even the glamorous and famous
need love and crave approval

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The exhibition on Marilyn Monroe runs for a week in Newbridge (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2014) Patrick Comerford I was badly in ne...