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Tycoon king of the castles: Magnate Hearst built pleasure-domes from California to Galway (opens the original)
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George Bernard Shaw is said to have remarked after spending time at the enormous castle built by the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in California, that it was what God would have built if God had had the money. Constructed between 1919 and 1947 for an estimated $40 million, the Hearst Castle at San Simeon was the centrepiece of a 250,000-acre ranch reaching to 2,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It comprised the Casa Grande (Big Ho
Legacies of the printing pioneer Johannes Gutenberg linger everywhere (opens the original)
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âPrinting is an army of 26 soldiers, with which you can conquer the worldâ, said Johannes Gutenberg, whose invention nearly 600 years ago has enabled you to read these words in print. Born in Mainz, Germany, around the year 1400, Gutenberg was in his early to mid-50s when he created a hard metal alloy from which he fashioned the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet into individual characters or type. He arranged the letters into straight lines of words, covered them in ink (made from soot, resin
From Homer to Heaney: Ray Burke on Irelandâs enduring connection to The Odyssey (opens the original)
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âThere is a stranger outside your house,â writes classicist Emily Wilson in the final paragraph of her 91-page introduction to her own translation into 21st century English of Homerâs ancient Greek epic poem The Odyssey. âHe is old, ragged, and dirty. He is tired. He has been wandering, homeless, for a long time, perhaps many years,â she says. Dialogue from some of Wilsonâs straightforward translation of the poem is used in this summerâs Hollywood blockbuster film version, which co
Good going: The horse-training landlord who helped thousands of tenants survive the Famine (opens the original)
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Itâs not unusual for thoroughbred Irish racehorses to be flown to the Middle East or Far East, or to the US or Australia, for meetings, but to send elite horses from the west of Ireland to England in the midst of the Great Famine â and in the decades before railways, motor transport or aviation â was a trailblazing achievement of Mayo landowner George Henry Moore. Among the horses he sent to win in England from stables beside his ancestral home at Moore Hall near Ballinrobe in south Mayo w
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