The jig that welcomed General Humbert to Co Mayo can still be heard in Kilcummin and Amsterdam

Fanlight statuettes were a nod to politics, insurance policies and personal tragedies

New generation is transfixed by The Meeting on the Turret Stairs

An amphibious invasion boded ill after a foray to liberate some 1798 spirit

She took an exotic name and wed the unlucky-in-love Hollywood heart-throb Rudolph

Short poem in The Irish Times was too obscure for some, but Beckett’s time in Saint-Lô warranted a verse with deep meaning

Magheracloone holds the only Irish deposits of gypsum, while the French capital was extensively mined to make plaster of Paris

This ferociously busy route was clearly not built with pedestrians in mind and hitchhiking didn’t seem safe to attempt

Mayan folk beliefs mingled with Leonora Carrington’s inherited Celtic ones in a heady concoction

Location in the Liberties ‘approved as part of a wider community regeneration project intended to provide a permanent market and community space’

The event brought strangers together as few things do at the city’s numerous vantage points

Closure was provided 41 years later when a driver from the Westmeath town got me to a screen showing the All-Ireland final

This dramatic change in the landscape around Dublin had somehow passed me by

Plus a suspicious detail about a banshee’s ominous cries

Extraordinary sound – ‘neither voice nor instrument’ – heralded baron’s death in 1801