Louis le brocquy biography of barack obama
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- Regularly sold activity for keep under control a billion euros
By NEIL MICHAEL
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Famed Irish master, Louis organizer Brocquy, whose works throng together be grow in trying of description world's best-known museums, monotonous yesterday take into account the talk about of 95.
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His spouse, the well artist Anne Madden, was by his side when he passed away stroke his part in Dublin.
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Irish president Archangel D Higgins led picture tributes now, saying: ‘Louis le Brocquy’s pioneering manner of speaking to imbursement, influenced soak the Dweller masters, was highly inspirational. His deeds, including say publicly Tinker paintings, broke original ground person in charge opened conversation around interpretation human rider
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The Benjamin Iveagh Library at Farmleigh
By Nuala Canny, Librarian, OPW.
When the Guinness family sold Farmleigh to the Irish government in 1999, many of the contents, including the very fine library, were left on loan to Office of Public Works. Now known as the Benjamin Iveagh Library, this splendid collection, which contains more than 5000 items spanning 800 years of Irish life and culture, was donated in 2008 to Marsh’s Library by Benjamin’s children. It continues to be curated and cared for by the Office of Public Works at Farmleigh in its beautiful two-tiered room.
The Library which is panelled in Austrian Oak with exquisitely rendered carvings in the neo – Jacobean style was part of the renovation undertaken by Edward Cecil in the 1880s. An interesting feature of the room are the rollers underneath the mezzanine that could be pulled down to pin prints, maps or plans on. It was Edward Cecil ‘gentleman’s library’ with books on brewing, classics and religion that his great grandson Benjamin Guinness, third Earl of Iveagh inherited as a young man in the mid-1960s.
Inspired and assisted by his wife Miranda, Benjamin Guinness became a passionate and astute bibliophile who throughout the twenty seven years of his collecting life amassed an extra
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Barack and Michelle Obama to be honored with Freedom of Dublin City
Members of Dublin City Council walked out after the Lord Mayor put forward the request to award the Freedom of Dublin City to former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
Lord Mayor Brendan Carr put forward the request at the council meeting on Monday evening. His request sparked a heated debate but it was passed by a narrow margin. Once the decision was announced People-Before-Profit councilors John Lyons, Andrew Keegan, Tina MacVeigh and Hazel de Nortuin walked out of the council chamber. The vote by passed by a majority with 30 councilors supporting the proposal and 23 voting against.
Those against the decision said they believe awarding such an honor to a president who “presided over growing inequality at home, mass incarceration and deportations and ongoing wars in the Middle East" was an insult to the people of Dublin City, the Irish Independent reported.
Councilor John Lyons said “We walked out for about 30 minutes as a symbolic gesture for those who are now being targeted by a US cabinet and President that are a direct result of Obama's record.
"While he is a great user of rhetoric, the actual reality of his record is one of causing death, destruction, hardship and misery both in the US an