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Comment on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Dublin memorials. by dfallon

dfallon — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:06:04 +0000

It doesn’t claim he wrote that remark on death in Ireland?

“Wittgenstein died in April 1951, and at that time in life he was once more living in Cambridge. On death, he famously wrote that:

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”

Comment on The Assassination of Kevin O’Higgins (1927) by Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:03:47 +0000

It is St Brendan’s alright, but there’s always been some cross etched into the concrete on the road, next to the path since I’ve been here, going back from 60′s to present day… They upgraded the intersection there very recently but if I’m not mistaken, the cross was either still there or re-etched into the road. Of course Enda Kenny also unvailed a plaque to KO’H on the wall of St Brendans recently as well.

Comment on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Dublin memorials. by Philipty

Philipty — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:31:11 +0000

Look, I hate to be the family pedant, but that last remark on death was not written in Ireland, but in a POW camp during WW1. His Philosophical Investigations also took him to Kilpatrick House, near Red Cross in Co. Wicklow. Thanks for the remark (Patrick) about philosophizing in the dark. Must try that. You can see why so many novels are based on him.

Comment on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Dublin memorials. by istubbs

istubbs — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:46:10 +0000

Wittgenstein also worked at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne from April 1943 – February 1944

here is my pic of the plaque to mark this

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bolckow/8229571560/

Comment on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Dublin memorials. by Joe Humphreys (@JoeHumphreys42)

Joe Humphreys (@JoeHumphreys42) — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:56:22 +0000

Nice posting. I had to do a double take when I walked past that plaque suggesting Wittgenstein worked in the Aisling hotel! There is another plaque to him at the site of the cottage he stayed in – now a hostel – near Killary harbour in Connemara, overlooking a quiet fishing inlet. Great location to write a book.

Comment on Dublin city’s oldest restaurant? by Meself...

Meself... — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:43:55 +0000

Great reading all these comments here! I’m a “Dub” (female) and I can remember a lot of those restaurants, with pleasure!

Comment on Saor Eire bankrobber in Liverpool by Max

Max — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:56:06 +0000

Good interview Mick. Raynor’s encyclopedic knowledge of the Left in Ireland over the last half century is a story of splits. Didn’t realise that there was so many. A pity. He should definitely change his barber.

Reynor mentioned the anarchists, Marie and Noel Murray. Does anybody know what ever happened to them? There was a B&ICO fellow, O’Shea, who was convicted of the murder of a Garda in, Roscommon, I think. Is he in or out of prison? Just today I heard on the news that a fellow was arrested in London on a bomb charge in 1982. I thought all those activities were covered in the Good Friday Agreement! Adams and McGuinness would want to ask questions about what is going on……they are paid enough.

Reynor is on the button when he says that the next government will be Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein. At least they will look after the average Joe better than the present bunch of carpet baggers and their pink salmon associates.

Comment on Some notes on the history of Vegetarianism in Dublin Pt. I (1866 – 1922) by Patrick Hawe

Patrick Hawe — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:49:48 +0000

The little-known Dublin published, short-lived Pioneer. A Mid-monthly Magazine for Thinkers and Reformers, edited by James H. Cousins containing contributions by the Sheehy-Skeffingtons, Maud Joynt, Suzanne Day, Pierce Leslie Pielou and fellow theosophists, Celticists, and amateur archaeologists of the day, promoted the benefits of a vegan diet throughout its four scarce issues.

Comment on Statues of Dublin: The unveiling (and removal) of Queen Victoria. by Queen Victoria | commemorative practice pearse street area

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Comment on The Assassination of Kevin O’Higgins (1927) by Simon Kenny

Simon Kenny — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:11:40 +0000

The photo shown here is of St. Brendan’s and not Sans Souci which was on the opposite side of the street. I remember a cross in the pavement there in the forties but it was removed in the fifties with the development of St. Helen’s.

Comment on Some notes on the history of Vegetarianism in Dublin Pt. I (1866 – 1922) by Patrick Hawe

Patrick Hawe — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:27:43 +0000

Anyone remember The Supernatural Tearooms on Harcourt Street circa 1975, brown rice bloats a belly.

Comment on Some notes on the history of Vegetarianism in Dublin Pt. I (1866 – 1922) by Patrick Hawe

Patrick Hawe — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:22:51 +0000

“Coming from the vegetarian. Only weggebobbles and fruit. Don’t eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity. They say it’s healthier. Windandwatery though. Tried it. Keep you on the run all day. Bad as a bloater. Dreams all night. Why do they call that thing they gave me nutsteak? Nutarians. Fruitarians. To give you the idea you are eating rumpsteak. Absurd. Salty too. They cook in soda. Keep you sitting by the tap all night”

– Leopold Bloom in Ulysses by James Joyce.

Comment on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Dublin memorials. by arranqhenderson

arranqhenderson — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:42:11 +0000

Great post, about an extraordinary thinker. I had a tiny insight into this particular friendship mentioned above about a year or so back. I was leading a group of students on a tour in the old House of Lords on College Green, when i saw a man in his fifties/early 60s, and a woman in her early 30s listening. There were very nice and when we got chatting, it turned out that the man was the son of Maurice O’Connor Drury, and the woman was a philosophy post-grad (new Zealader but at Cambridge now I think) who was over visiting Dublin in order to study the voluminous correspondence between the 2 men. Amazing to meet the son of a man who was such great friends with one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. On a more trivial note, I also saw a carpet once, in a house in Oxford, that LW had chewed to bits. Apparently he hated callers-by and would get agitated! So the story went anyhow, (He’d certainly lived or stayed in the house for a while. (It belonged to one of the colleges, St Johns College I think) Anyway, thank you, for another great post, this blog is always great. Respects. -Arran.

Comment on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Dublin memorials. by franziskus

franziskus — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:06:20 +0000

Interesting man, with his roots and his life,pitty that he is knowing more as a british.austrian philosopher,good to know that he loved Dublin.

Greatings from Vienna to all CHTM!

Comment on An unusual hunger strike: The Forum Cinema, Dun Laoghaire by Bridget

Bridget — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:03:42 +0000

A few corrections.

My grandfather, a giant of a man, whom I have very warm memories of, was Bernard O’Reilly of Roger Casement fame he was the father of Barney and John Francis (Jack to the family)…see the Flighty Boy from Clare

Bree