The Duke of Edinburgh s Links to Irish Sailing Were Many & Varied
12th April 2021
Bloodhound racing in Cowes Week, Duke of Edinburgh on helm. In theory she was the Royal Yacht, in reality she was the People s Boat
When the Duke of Edinburgh died aged 99 on Friday, it took a while before the hundreds of public appreciations of his remarkable life began to mention the fact that sailing played a very important role in it. Yet although non-active in the sport for his last dozen or so years, he had continued to take a fatherly interest in both its general administration and the many technical developments, while retaining several honorary positions in leading sailing bodies.
Died: April 6th, 2021
Denis Donoghue, who has died aged 92, was one of the worldâs foremost scholars of modern literature. He published more than 30 books and held professorships at New York University and his alma mater, University College Dublin. Writing for the London Review of Books, Frank Kermode described him as âa literary critic of the first rankâ.
Initially made an assistant lecturer in 1953, Donoghue taught at UCD for close to three decades. The quality of his publications brought the college unprecedented prestige in the international literary world. Tall in stature, extemporising his lectures without notes, and combining a rare command of the spoken word with a gift for powerful critical insights, he struck an impressive and even intimidating figure to undergraduates. One former student recalled that âit was easy to mistake his grand, rolling cadences for the voice of Godâ.
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Denis Donoghue: President leads tributes to late scholar and literary critic Father of novelist Emma Donoghue held professorships at New York University and UCD
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Denis Donoghue: the academic and literary critic has died aged 92
President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Denis Donoghue, the scholar and literary critic, who has died at the age of 92. He published more than 30 books and held professorships at New York University and his alma mater, University College Dublin. His daughter Emma, the acclaimed novelist, posted news of his death on Twitter overnight.
“An authority on Irish and American literature in their fullest sense, Denis Donoghue was one of the foremost experts on the literary legacies of Ireland, the United States, and England,” the President said.
Historic Royal St George Yacht Club Ensign a Reminder of Vexillatious Issues
5th April 2021
The Royal St George Yacht Club in 1846 - its last year as the Royal Kingstown YC - is pictured in the Illustrated London News as flying a somewhat ambiguous ensign
The learned word for the study of flags is vexillology . Had we been told that it shares its roots with vexation , it wouldn t have surprised us at all, living as we do just down the road from a region where the interpretation of flegs n omblums is a deadly serious business.
But in fact, it goes back to the vexillum , the special distinctive banner-flag carried by the Roman legions, which thereby became a clear symbol to all those peace-loving primitive tribes, getting on with their idyllic back-to-nature lives out in the boondocks, that trouble was on the way.