“We read real books, right from the age of four up to 17. We also read history books. But it always seemed to me that history books were written by people who were trying to explain some enormous mess that we’d all got into but were never going to be able to explain. Whereas novelists… Continue reading Remembering Jennifer Johnston: A Voice That Bridges Generations
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Randolph Caldecott print
Framed, with a red mount by the Neptune Gallery, Dublin in the 1970s for Susan Browne, who was born in New York to Irish parents. Susan returned age 18 years of age in the early 1970s, to study history in Trinity College Dublin. Randolph Caldecott was an English artist and illustrator and the creator of… Continue reading Randolph Caldecott print
Out Goes She
By Leslie Daiken Published by the Dolmen Press, Dublin 1963 From the streets of Dublin, Leslie H Daiken’s collection of children’s street-songs, war-cries and samples of oral literature. From the McAllister Collection. Donated to the Museum of Childhood Ireland 2023 About Leslie Daiken: Leslie Herbert Daiken Born in Dublin on June 29th 1912 – died… Continue reading Out Goes She