Corravahan House, near Drung, Co. Cavan, is a mid-nineteenth-century glebe house of the middle size, constructed in the Italianate classical style. Thanks largely to lengthy occupation by the Leslie family, […]
Read More →Within the Black Abbey in Kilkenny stand three figures carved as one from alabaster: it is an image of the Holy Trinity. Crowned, bearded and majestic, God the Father raises […]
Read More →It does not take long to notice that the dove of the Holy Spirit on the Black Abbey Trinity has been damaged. Was it broken by accident, or was it […]
Read More →Judging from the number of alabasters that survive in Ireland today, the size of the Irish market for English alabasters would seem to have been fairly modest. Yet the alabasters […]
Read More →Sir,—Can any reader identify this group of IRA Volunteers or name any of them individually? The photograph was discovered in recent years and was the property of Mrs Molly McGovern […]
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