I am delighted to advise that last night The Irish Aesthete was declared Ireland’s Best Arts & Culture Blog 2013. Many thanks to those awarding the titles and also to all readers whose encouragement and interest are always so appreciated.
The accompanying illustration depicts the Conolly Folly, designed by Richard Castle and built at the request of the widowed Katherine Conolly in order to provide relief to the local poor during he famine of 1740-41. It is, of course, also the symbol of the Irish Georgian Society.
Well earned.
Thank you Susan, I shall be in touch in the coming days and hope to see you later this week…
Well deserved accolade!
Thank you Homan as always for your support.
Splendid – victor ludorum
Congratumalations! That’s great news and well done. GV
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Well done!
Oh congratulations. Well done. Am in Wiltshire and have given Solveig and H your Knight book. Kxx
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Congratulations and well deserved!
I only discovered this site a month ago and have been checking in daily ever since. It is by far the best website concerning the built heritage of Ireland in my humble opinion, its absolutely fascinating.Thank you for your valuable contribution to the documentation of that which is slowly and regrettably being lost to us.
Congratulations and very well deserved!
Many Congratulations… from this recent but already devoted convert .Patricia
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Wonderful news and well deserved!
congratulations Robert Olivier
Congratulations and very well deserved.
Oh how brilliant. What do you get as the prize? Look forward to the ‘Followers’ Dinner!
Dear Robert,
Many congratulations. Wish you were in London so that I could pour champagne down your gullet.
Love,
Penny
Congratulations to the Irish Aesthete. A well-deserved award for so many lively and fascinating blogs, which we were delighted to help you celebrate last night.
Heartiest congratulations! Keep up the fine work.
Wonderful informative blog -richly deserved! -Congratulations!
Hello from America!
Congratulations on the award and well deserved. Your blog is always a pleasure to read. Do keep those posting coming!
Cheers,
Brendan McConville
Absolutely well deserved, I’m so thrilled to have even been considered as a finalist! Congratulations again!
Glad it went your way. I thoroughly enjoy all of your posts, keep them coming!
Warm regards and congratulations!
Congratulations, well deserved.
Thanks to everyone who has sent me such kind comments in the past 24 hours. As a rule, I try to reply to each message, but given the numbers on this occasion, I hope you will accept this collective thanks, but each of them has been savoured and appreciated.
And jolly well deserved too. Congratulations Robert, you must be thrilled. Mark
Well done you! I love your ‘blogs’!
Delighted to have found your blog as a result of this Award and very well-deserved.
Thoroughly deserved award. Consistently interesting work and excellent photographs. Congratulations.
Thank you Robert, look forward to seeing you and catching up at book party next week…
Many congratulations…thoroughly deserved. Belinda
Thank you dear Belinda, sweet of you to write!
This prize, and the “inspiring” notice for you and the blog in October’s US Architectural Digest…..
Bravo!
Thank you, yes it was terribly kind of Mitchell Owens to note the Irish Aesthete in October’s AD, glad you had noticed.
Robert brings a side of Ireland I was privileged to “glimpse” once upon a magical time.
He brings you there and back again with detail that relieves the past reality and marks it for present day enjoyment
Thank you Danne, that is most kind of you and I hope this finds you very well in Los Angeles…
Congratulations Robert! Your blog is simply the best. With love and admiration, Marion xxx
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And you, my dear Marion, are simply a darling! Rx
Love your blog ,Robert ..CONGRATULATIONS ! So well deserved !
You are a great teacher .What a wonderful way to learn about our Irish heritage . Your brilliance has enhanced us all ..xo
Dear Eileen,
You are kind to write, thank you so much for your generous words which are very much appreciated. And I hope we shall see one another again before too long.
Robertx