"The National Gallery of Ireland was founded in 1854 and has since acquired an extraordinary collection of masterpieces by artists such as Caravaggio, Lanfranco, Poussin, Rubens, Uccello, Velázquez, and Vermeer, as well as British artists such as Gainsborough and Reynolds and the leading lights of Irish art, from James Barry to Jack Yeats. The Gallery has expanded steadily, benefiting from the royalties to the works of George Bernard Sha ..."
An Irish Childhood(Updated) by PeterSomerville-Large Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Constable & Robinson Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84119-708-1, ISBN: 1-84119-708-4
"Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin from which they could watch Fitzwilliam Place far below, with the horse drawn delivery vans, the animals being driven to market and their father's patients arriving to visit the consulting rooms on the ground floor. The family had houses in the country too, with livestock and vegetable gardens and a bevy of eccentric relations, ..."
"This book celebrates the artistic achievement of Anthony Barry who captured the spirit of his native city of Cork in a remarkable collection of photographs. The photographs in this book are drawn from an archive of seven thousand pictures which portray Cork life in the 1950s and 1960s. Over twenty years, during his leisure time, he walked around Cork with his Leica and Rolliflex and took pictures of every aspect of the city. This collec ..."
"Take the extent of death and destruction caused by the western geo-Christian
civilisation in America alone. ... was estimated at 79 + million [American Indian
Holocaust and Survival - a population history since 1492 by Russell Thornton
University of Oklahoma Press p.36]. ... A Samuel Huntington writes a book 'Who
Are We?"