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25 Jun 2015

Ireland’s largest emigrant takes centre stage

Photo: Natural History Museum London by Denis Bourez (France) via WikiCommons Media – our thanks and appreciation.

London’s Natural History Museum announced recently that the skeleton of a blue whale will become their central exhibit in the Museum’s Hintze Hall from summer 2017. The whale was found injured in Wexford Harbour in 1891 and sold to the museum by William Armstrong. An example of the largest creature on Earth, she was 82ft long and weighed about 160 tonnes.

She replaces Dippy the diplodocus dinosaur – any suggestions for a name for the Irish blue whale?

Posted in conservation, environment, science, zoology and tagged 10 Downing Stret, animal kingdom, bigget creature, blue whales, conservation, dinosaur, diplodocus, dippy, endangered species, environment, largest creaure, mammals, marine life, Natural History, oceans, Wexford harbour, zoology | Leave a comment

16 Jan 2015

It’s a long way from Tipperary to 10 Downing Street

Dignitaries on the terrace at the Citadel overlooking Quebec Harbour, 18 August 1943. Seated are Anthony Eden (Foreign Secretary); President Roosevelt; the Countess of Athlone; Winston Churchill. Standing are the Earl of Athlone (Governor General of Canada); Mackenzie King (Prime Minister of Canada); Sir Alexander Cadogan (Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs); Brendan Bracken (Minister of Information).

Photograph: H 32144 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums via Wikimedia Commons. Photograph of No. 10 taken by Leonard Bentley via Wikimedia Commons.

Brendan BRACKEN, Minister for Information during World War II, Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, Privy Counciller and publisher born near Templemore Co. Tipperary 1901 lived on North Street (number required) and, for the duration of the War, at 10 Downing Street. Having led a full and prosperous life (he was a founder and Chairman of the Financial Times), he died in 1958.

Recommend looking up Bracken House, Cannon Street/Friday Street, near St Paul’s London EC4. This fellow blogger has a very authoritative feature, https://baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2015/01/

Posted in Ireland, politics, Publishing, War and tagged 10 Downing Stret, Bracken, Cannon St, Financial Times, FT, London, London Irish, Minister for Information, North Street, Number 10, Privy Council, Templemore, Tipperary, Winston Churchill, World War II, WW2 | Leave a comment