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The case of the missing skulls from Inishbofin
Updated / Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021
13:57
The Haddon Dixon Collection in the Skull Passage in Old Anatomy. Each skull was kept in a protective cover and labelled with its catalogue number in preparation for a conservation programme that is ongoing. Photo: Ciaran Walsh
Analysis: The colonial legacies of universities and museums have become an issue, especially culturally sensitive material like human remains in anthropological collections that were tainted by colonial violence and scientific racism.
John Millington Synge poked fun at colonial science in The Playboy of the Western World when he referred to an anthropological collection in TCD. Did you never hear tell, Jimmy asked Philly of the skulls they have in the city of Dublin, ranged out like blue jugs in a cabin of Connaught?
Died: April 6th, 2021
Denis Donoghue, who has died aged 92, was one of the worldâs foremost scholars of modern literature. He published more than 30 books and held professorships at New York University and his alma mater, University College Dublin. Writing for the London Review of Books, Frank Kermode described him as âa literary critic of the first rankâ.
Initially made an assistant lecturer in 1953, Donoghue taught at UCD for close to three decades. The quality of his publications brought the college unprecedented prestige in the international literary world. Tall in stature, extemporising his lectures without notes, and combining a rare command of the spoken word with a gift for powerful critical insights, he struck an impressive and even intimidating figure to undergraduates. One former student recalled that âit was easy to mistake his grand, rolling cadences for the voice of Godâ.
Denis Donoghue: President leads tributes to late scholar and literary critic Father of novelist Emma Donoghue held professorships at New York University and UCD
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Denis Donoghue: the academic and literary critic has died aged 92
President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Denis Donoghue, the scholar and literary critic, who has died at the age of 92. He published more than 30 books and held professorships at New York University and his alma mater, University College Dublin. His daughter Emma, the acclaimed novelist, posted news of his death on Twitter overnight.
“An authority on Irish and American literature in their fullest sense, Denis Donoghue was one of the foremost experts on the literary legacies of Ireland, the United States, and England,” the President said.
Renowned soprano Veronica Dunne dies aged 93
Updated / Monday, 5 Apr 2021
20:27
News Correspondent
The death has been announced of the internationally renowned soprano and music teacher Dr Veronica Dunne. She was 93 years old.
A renowned singer in her own right, Dr Dunne also trained some of Ireland s best known classical singers, and established the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, which is dedicated to discovering the best classical singers of the future.
Born in Dublin, Veronica Dunne who was known to her friends as Ronnie, began her vocal studies at the age of 12. She studied in Rome in the 1940s and made her operatic debut in 1948 with the Dublin Grand Opera Society, and her Italian debut in 1952. She later joined the company of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.