Maurice Craig might have Milltown Park i mind when he coined this phrase, but curiosuly he never recorded it. Peter Somervile-Large is charmed by a return visit to its secluded setting in County Offaly.
Peter Somerville-Large recalls the largesse of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty as highlights from his bequest to the National Gallery of Ireland go on view at the Chester Beatty Library this autumn.
A lack of exhibition space and restricted budgets dog many museums, not least Ireland’s National Museum whose African artefacts Peter Somerville-Large recalls last viewing as a schoolboy
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