Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institution, as its members subsequently admitted. The question has been raised as to what would happen to Westminster Abbey and the great cathedrals, in the event of disestablishment. In Ireland this point was settled by the simple process of leaving the cathedrals in the possession of the Episcopalians. In Dublin there are no less than two Protestant Cathedrals, Christ Church and Saint Patrick's, both Episcopalian. There is one Catholic cathedral in that city, the Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough...
...common man as well as for the poet and painter open a new field of vision, a combination of many memories that in waking consciousness could never be produced. To illustrate his point he told of a dream wherein he found himself flying above the rooftops of his native Dublin. As this happened long before the days of airplanes, it gave him an entirely new conception of the houses, and he later painted a picture from this dream perspective...
Most Ulysses readers know that the book covers the events of one day among a group of Dublin bourgeois. Gilbert even knows what day it was: June 16, 1904. Each of Ulysses' 18 episodes, besides parelleling similar scenes in the Odyssey, represents a different Art (e. g. architects philology) and Bodily Organ (esophagus, heart) and is told with a different and appropriate technique (narrative, catechizing). With his running comment, frequent quotations, scholarly footnotes, Translator Gilbert gives you almost a substitute for the book itself...
...GILHOOLEY-Two sterling performances by Helen Hayes and Arthur Sinclair in a solid play about life in Dublin...
...GILHOOLEY?Adequate drama of life in Dublin, with Arthur Sinclair and Helen Hayes (TIME...