WE hear that in digging the foundation of one of the new buildings on Summer Hill, a crown, of very curious construction, and of great value, has been found by some of the workmen. It is a golden one, and studded with brilliants. Some antiquarians and virtuosi are employing themselves in examining whether it was the crown of one of our Irish Kings, or of some foreign Prince, English or Danish, killed in the battle of Clontarf.

A correspondent, who yesterday was at Ringsend, acquaints us, that the arches of the new bridge, building there on the site of the old one, will be a great deal higher than those of the latter were, and consequently future torrents will have the less force. The timbers, for turning them upon, being fixed up, he presumes that they will be covered before the next winter sets in, and the bridge entirely finished in the course of the next year.

The same correspondent, upon his return to town from Ringsend, passed along a range of miserable old houses at the place called the Folly; and it was with fear and trembling he walked by them . . . on surveying them with his eye, he observed with astonishment, some persons standing at the windows upstairs. Those houses threaten immediate destruction to the inhabitants. And the unwary passengers by their fall. If want and misery compel the former to venture their lives there, surely they should be carried to the House of Industry, or some other place of safety, and those shocking ruins pulled down to the ground. If the proper Commissioners have any feelings of humanity, or a proper sense of their duty, they will immediately cause the same to be done, and not suffer the next stormy blast to destroy human lives.

Irish Independent 2 September 1947

MUSIC, songs and stories, and scenes from Irish life, were recorded by a BBC Group on a tour of some of the maritime counties of Ireland, which has just concluded. Details of the tour were given by Mr Brian George BBC Recorded Programme Director at a press conference in Dublin yesterday. The tour was arranged in collaboration with the Irish Folklore Commission and the party were introduced in the various districts by Mr S Delargy, Director of the Commission, Mr Sean O'Sullivan, Mr Ernie O'Malley, Mr Seamus Ennis, Radio Eireann outside broadcaster and S Mac Reamonn.

In Dingle the group interviewed the famous Peg Sayers, who, now in her 75th year, is in Dingle Hospital where she recorded a number of Irish stories. All the BBC men spoke highly of the impression which the Kerry lady made on them. In Listowel, Bryan McMahon, the well-known short story writer, recorded stories for the party, and gave them an insight into the cultural life of the district. They recorded portion of the proceedings of Puck Fair Killorglin, as well as songs and stories from Seamus Sheridan, son of the leader of a famous tribe in the South.

In Galway and Connemara songs and stories were recorded, as well as proceedings at a ceilidhe in Carna. On the way to Sligo the party interviewed Pat Healy, who, now almost a hundred years old, is the last surviving speaker of the Leitrim dialect of Irish, and made a record of his talk for the Folklore Commission.

After visiting Donegal the party returned via Cavan to Dublin where they recorded a 'chapter' to be broadcast next Sunday in the BBC Country Magazine.