![]() ![]() We were up with the lark (9 o’clock) to see Andy Pollak talk about whether the South is ready for re-unification. I took myself back to the house with the paper and made my own cup of tea. It was 4 in the afternoon and the only suggestion the woman in the newsagent’s could make was that I could get a takeaway tea from the Spar. Michael retired to the house after our cultural odyssey but I went into town to see whether I could find a paper (yes) and a cup of tea (definitely not). He’s the man who worked out that the date of creation was 22 October 4004 BC. Archbishop Ussher was also a big name locally and a first edition of one of his works was displayed. There was Swift’s own first edition of Gulliver’s Travels where he had made slightly irate amendments to the text which the publisher had changed without Swift’s permission I think because the publisher didn’t want to go to gaol. She also left a pair of magnifying glasses. And then she left us alone with all the books without so much as a velvet rope to impede access. The librarian was lovely and very helpful. This did not happen but it was not for the want of trying on his part. Archbishop Robinson was the big cheese locally and established both the library and the observatory and was determined to make Armagh a university city to rival Dublin. Coincidentally, I think the Piranesi books we saw in Dublin were actually on loan from the Robinson Library. We went to the Robinson Library which both of us really liked. Waffle says that they must have brought home a boatload when they were coming apparently the one on Dun Laoghaire pier is very similar. We went to the county museum on the Mall which was small and contained the charming, slightly random, exhibits I associate with local museums. Anyhow, eventually we finished up and Michael and I went out for a look around Armagh. It seems extraordinary how much one can do online now (old crone speaks). I spent a good part of the morning doing logistics with herself for her trip to Paris in September. ![]()
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