Philosophy and common comfort's by horourke

Dublin - Ireland, Dublin In the PalmHouse at Dublin,s otanic Gardens there is a proud claim to association with Wittgenstein. Cynfcally I suspect he was a refugee from poorly heated rented accommodation of the rather deprived conditions existing in Ireland in the winter of 1948/49

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jacko1 - Dec, 27 2009 06:12am I am inclined to agree Hugh, I spent some time in Dublin in 1958/9 and there was a lot of poverty in the areas outside of the city centre, I imagine it was the same or worse 10yrs earlier. horourke - Dec, 27 2009 11:12am And indeed for a while afterwards. A funny thing happened to my brother in the mid 1960s on the airport bus. An american husband observing the delapidation of neglected Georgian houses said tio his wife "Gee Honey these people must have gone through hell during the war" There was of course virtually no bombing in Dublin.