Hill Street Views: The hidden histories of Dundalk
Opinion, views and commentary from former Democrat editor David Lynch
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I’ve viewed it from a speeding car, hurtling past at about 120km/hr for the best part of 20 years or more.
Always there to the right-hand side when you drive down the motorway onramp and steer the car in the general direction of Dublin.
It sits obvious in the field – prominent, grey, ruined, proud. There’s a rather unsightly-looking crack running from top to bottom; almost cleaving the tower structure in two.
When your life is limited to a 5km radius you start to see familiar things a little differently; see them with fresh eyes again. It helps that the mind is more idle these days; looking for anything new within a limited vista.
A Ford family estate is auctioning off 650 treasures worth more than $5 mn
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Last Updated: Feb 15, 2021, 09:21 AM IST
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Christie’s will auction items from the estate of the late Kathleen DuRoss Ford, the widow of auto titan Henry Ford II.
The third wife of the industrialist split her time between a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, the Belgravia apartment, and Turville Grange in Buckinghamshire after his death in 1987. (Image: Mrs. Henry Ford II’s Palm Beach residence/christies.com)
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On March 30, Christie’s will auction about 250 lots from the estate of the late Kathleen DuRoss Ford, the widow of auto titan Henry Ford II. A few weeks later, the auction house will host a separate sale from her estate in London, where she had an apartment on Eaton Square.
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It is hard not to warm to the personality of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656–1733), the most celebrated and eccentric collector of antiquities in early 18th-century Britain. In Lord Wharncliffe’s description a century later, the earl ‘distinguished himself chiefly by odd whims and peculiarities; one of which was a fixed resolution not to believe that any thing he disliked, ever did or could happen’. At the same time, he was a serious figure at a time of extraordinary transition in the scholarship of classical antiquities, when erudite antiquarians were seeking to make sense of classical art on the basis of a sometimes formidable knowledge of ancient literature and coinage, but with little access to comparative material and no established methodology. The signal achievement of Pembroke’s intellectual life was the formation of a huge collection of ancient and modern sculptures at the family seat of Wilton House in Wiltshire –