R. Butler

May 17, 2020March 16, 2020

WEEK 131: (17th – 22nd May 1920)

“I went to the Coliseum to see Her Barrier was objectionable enough to complain to the theatre committee about – Miss Doyle had been telling D. – it was awful. It was rather beastly, & such rot! But there was a comic one before it where three men were killed & went to hell & were shut into a pit of fire by devils with huge red hot pitchforks, which was lovely.”

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April 21, 2020June 16, 2020

WEEK 127: (21st – 25th April 1920)

“I went to the Tech & worked at the Brooch of mine that Aunt H. gave Brenda, which needs a good deal of repair. In the evening B. and I went to the Coliseum, and saw a very funny sheriff’s-daughter story about fool & robbers, & a piece of a serial about a circus man whom a gang of scoundrels were trying to kill – he was good-looking – and a tiresome thing about Charlie Chaplin as a pawnbroker’s assistant – & a whole story called “Words & Music by” which was far the best of the evening. “

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March 8, 2020January 21, 2020

WEEK 121: (8th – 14th March 1920)

“Callaghan came back refused from Maunsell’s. I wish they would give some idea of why they refused it. I went to the Tech & worked on the turquoise pendant. Dorothea & Ben went to Tráit Mór in the afternoon, for Ben to say goodbye to Midvale, & no sooner were they gone than Grace Bell & Ruth came to pay a visit.”

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December 1, 2019July 8, 2019

WEEK 108: (1st – 7th December 1919)

“Kathleen Hicks came to supper & was very interesting. She approved the idea of getting C. na mb. Branches to demand that the vacant seats in Dáil Éireann should be filled by women, or attempted to be.”

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June 2, 2019December 18, 2018

WEEK 82: (2nd – 8th June 1919)

“In the afternoon we went in to town in the motor and visited at Suirview and went to the theatre to see “David Garrick” by a company belonging to a man named Macready who gives the impression of thinking a lot of himself, and seems much admired. The play was no good; the only pleasant things in it were some parts of the drunken scene, though as a whole that was deplorable (“me murdered love!”) and the beautiful legs of one of the lowbred commercial guests, who otherwise was supremely hideous. Garrick might have made himself fairly goodlooking, but so much depends on dress & hair in those 18th century plays…”

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May 21, 2019December 18, 2018

WEEK 80: (21st – 22nd May 1919)

“I had to go to the Club in the evening to a meeting about the new register, & was told off to visit sympathisers along Newtown Rd and get names of everyone in their houses who should have a vote.”

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January 27, 2019November 5, 2019

WEEK 69: (27th Jan – 2nd February 1919)

“Tash came to afternoon tea, and Nancy too, so that they could see each other. They talked about houses, and Nancy scorned Waterford because there are not enough houses built here, & also scorned the notion of any distance being too far to walk to work. She told us more about her house than I ever knew before; it must be a frightful place, with a pump opposite the hall door, & no other water.”

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September 2, 2018October 16, 2018

WEEK 49: (2nd – 8th September 1918)

“Wheeler informed me they wanted to make Gallagher vice president, so I said I had no objection, though I don’t think much of him for the post, & they wanted me to be financial see, but I repelled the idea.”

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