UK Archives - Katherine Dolan Writes

10 Portraits of Scottish Women

UK May 15, 2023

On a quick trip to Edinburgh we stopped in at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, which was a really beautiful and well curated art...

Glasgow’s British Imperiorium

Travel May 6, 2023

“Glasgow,” I said one day, “I am going to have a look at you.” I got up early and set out from our hotel,...

Scottishness North and South

History May 1, 2023

We were just in Glasgow for a couple of months and my abiding impression is that it felt like home. There is a pretty...

Hotel Horror

Travel April 16, 2023

John has been having a hard time lately; he has not been very well since a dentist pulled out one of his molars a...

Elizabethan Writers & Ireland

Europe April 21, 2021

One of the most surprising things about Youghal, to me anyway, was that Sir Walter Raleigh used to live there. His house, Myrtle Grove,...

Running Away from Newtownards

History February 24, 2021

We've been having an unsettled week here in Northern Ireland. The house we booked for December turned out to have an intractable internet problem...

Picturing the Coastal Path

Travel February 16, 2021

For the past few weeks we've been doing a lot of walking around the town of Bangor (N.I.) and its attendant bays. One of...

Walking to the Shop in Bangor, NI

Travel November 16, 2020

For a couple of weeks now we've been in the seaside town of Bangor, Northern Ireland. The winter weather here is not infrequently 'manky',...

Rounding the Ards Peninsula

Running November 4, 2020

This week we moved to an apartment by the sea in Bangor, Northern Ireland (i.e. not Wales or Maine). The first thing we noticed...

MacNeice in Ireland: A Prism of Delight & Pain

History January 2, 2021

Until recently, I knew three things about Louis MacNeice (1907-1963): that he was from Ireland, that he was friends with Auden and that he...

The DeLorean in Dunmurry

History April 29, 2021

I’ve been wondering about the DeLorean for a couple of months because this space-aged car of stainless steel played a big (albeit brief) part...

Risking a Trip to Titanic Belfast

History September 23, 2020

It seems kind of weird that Belfast would capitalize on its links to a terrible shipping disaster, but that’s what it has gone and...

UK

Portal to Ur

The Other Gallipoli

Beach Walk

Tolkien in Italy