The Laois laureate
Cecil Day Lewis, Poet Laureate born Ballintubbert Co. Laois 1904 lived at 6 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8HL. He died at Lemmons, Hadley Common, EN5.
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Where you can find the London addresses that were important to famous Irish people and of people who were important to Ireland.
Archive for the category “literature”
He Died For a Dream
Tom Kettle, Nationalist MP and poet born Artane, Dublin is commemorated on the Parliamentary War Memorial in Westminster Hall.
He left us the lines, “…Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor But for a dream, born in a herdsman’s shed And for the secret scripture of the poor”. From, To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God.
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Nineteen names and a big thank you
A big thank you to the increasing number of followers, commenters and visitors. You make it all worthwhile. Wishing you all the happiest of new years. And, thank you, to many of these other bloggers whose work I am enjoying.
The list of names here so far features a range of great Irish names from diverse fields (and mostly good London addresses!). There are more ready to be posted and yet more under research. I hope they will surprise and inform in equal measure. As a reminder here they all are, in reverse order, not forgetting the thousands commemorated at the Crown, Cricklewood,
William Butler YEATS
Sir Francis BEAUFORT
George Bernard SHAW
Sir Ernest Henry SHACKLETON
Dr Thomas John BARNARDO
Duke of WELLINGTON
Francis BACON
Countess Constance MARKIEWICZ
Erskine Robert CHILDERS
Daniel MACLISE
Oliver GOLDSMITH
Bernardo O’HIGGINS
Daniel O’ CONNELL
John Henry FOLEY
Bram STOKER
Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
St Oliver PLUNKETT
Katharine O’ Shea
Louis MACNEICE
Snow time
Louis MACNEICE , poet (born Belfast 1907 died 1963) lived at 52 Canonbury Park South, Islington, N1 from 1947 to 1952. Perhaps a good time of year for his poem ‘Snow’ follow the link below to read it and hear it read aloud it only takes a minute. I hope this is the kind of site that takes you on paths less well trodden.
http://www.thepoetryexchange.co.uk/uncategorized/snow-by-louis-macneice-2/
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Was ‘A School for Scandal’ inspired by Dublin or London?
A very warm welcome to the new followers of On Pavement Grey.
Please bear with me as I get comfortable with this whole scene. I hope this blog returns at least some of the pleasure yours have already given me.
Among other achievements, today’s notable wrote the play A school for Scandal. He was also a member of parliament and owner of the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane.
Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN, dramatist born Dublin 1751 lived at 10 Hertford Street, London, W1 from 1795 to 1802. Buried at Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey 1816 – see the entry for Oliver Goldsmith. To defend the honour of his lover he fought a duel on the site of what is now Apsley House – see the entry for the Duke of Wellington.
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‘Dracula’ was born in Dublin but lived among us in London
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Bram STOKER, author of ‘Dracula’ was born in Clontarf, Dublin 1847 and lived at 18 St Leonard’s Terrace, London SW3. He died in 1912 and is buried in Golder’s Green, London.
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