Some years ago, the writer, essayist and filmmaker Jonathan Meades decided to produce an achingly intellectual televisual riposte to the ‘The Only Way is Essex’. Determined to demonstrate that there…
In Merrion Square, the languid figure of Oscar Wilde slouches on a quartz-like rock hewn from the Wicklow Mountains. Created in 1997, it constitutes a belated tribute to one of…
So Mark Selby is the new world champion! I have always enjoyed snooker although I could never understand why my grandmother was so absorbed in a game that she watched…
It was a rainy morning in the Spring of 1984. Raindrops slid lazily down the panes of the windows in the prefab classroom of my primary school. The baby thrush…
Saturday evening walk with the girls Leadership of a school community requires a good deal of strategic planning. During the last year, we have all had to respond swiftly to…
It is almost a century ago that the infant Prince Philip was smuggled out of Corfu in a fruit box, aboard the British naval vessel HMS Calypso. Like so many…
Dear all, On Tuesday evening we gathered in the Square to mark the passing of a year since the official start of the first lockdown. There is no denying that…
Dear all, As the green shoots of Spring gradually appear, we find ourselves in a position where we need to look to the future and begin to emerge from the…
Dear All, The wind is howling and the rain is falling but we are absolutely delighted to have our school community back together once again. Smiling faces and the excited…
