Category: Ita’s World

Connections between Ireland and India are the focus of temporary exhibitions in Dublin’s Trinity College Old Library and Chester Beatty Library in 2010. The July/August special issue of Ireland’s history magazine is dedicated to Ireland and India with a number of articles and archival images dovetailing the current exhibitions. The issue contains stories of prominent people who came from India to visit or settle in Ireland and those who became established and well respected who settled in India. Articles…

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An exhibition of Irish High Crosses is at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, in Dublin. The six plaster-of-Paris casts featuring religious and contemporary figures were chosen for their unique styles, exemplary sculpture and stylised motives. High Crosses of early Christian Ireland were decorated with pictures which taught biblical stories to the largely illiterate population. Some medieval treasures are also on display with special lighting making it easier to observe fine detail of the sculptures often unnoticed in…

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