WHEN a posh school like Alexandra College in Dublin has an art exhibition you can bet it's not going to be the usual mixture of unintentionally abstract oils and only the artist's mother could love watercolours.
For their Hermione Art Exhibition, the school managed to persuade some very well known artists including Pauline Bewick, Felim Egan and Michael Mulcahy to take part, with a small percentage of any sales going directly to the school.
At the opening of the show, guest speaker Desmond Fitzgerald, the Knight of Glin, reminded his long time friend the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Caird, when and where the two first met.
Dr Caird was Bishop of Limerick, at the time and he called around to the Fitzgeralds. It was a sunny day so the family members were in the garden, as was the poet Robert Graves, who was busy trying to, climb a tree. As the sombrero wearing poet was then in his 80s, he soon had to be rescued by the rather startled onlookers.
This was "one of the very good humoured Dr Caird's last `official' duties as he will be retiring on Easter Monday. Happily, tree climbing is not on his retirement agenda. Instead he intends to spend more time bird watching in Dingle and visiting America with his American wife Nancy.