(For S.H.) It was a year after the artist was drowned that the loan exhibition of Hugo Blake’s paintings was opened in Philadelphia by Maeve. “Whom the gods love die young,” people said. To remember those paintings is like remembering a dream-life spent with the Ever-living in an Ireland untrodden by men. Except once he …
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Group photograph of members of the Women Writers' Club and Dorothy Macardle. Reproduced by Kind permission of UCD-OFM Partnership. For the most up-to-date consideration of Macardle's life and work, see Leeann Lane's new biography Dorothy Macardle, published by UCD Press in 2019. Dorothy Macardle's entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography here. In 2018, Kilmainham …
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