Notes on Salthill and Monkstown, County Dublin

Notes on Salthill and Monkstown, County Dublin

Homing in some of the icons of Monkstown’s history such as John Travers and James Eustace who occupied Monkstown Castle, the regicide Edmund Ludlow, Owen Guinneas, (ancestor of Arthur Guinness), the Waterloo surgeon Dr. Matthias Kenny, and astrophysicist Lady Margaret...
Past Tracks – An Illustrated Journey Through Irish History

Past Tracks – An Illustrated Journey Through Irish History

  Like Paddington Bear, the Past Tracks project came to life on a railway platform. In fact, so did Algernon Worthing in Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, ‘The Importance of Being Ernest.’ I was standing on the platform at Hazelhatch, near Celbridge, County Kildare,...