Friday, December 28, 2012

Any good Dublin hotels near Leeson Street? (Promised 5 stars for bestanswr!)?

Q. (appart from Leeson Inn)..

A. There are plenty of good hotels around that area- St. Stephens Green Hotel, The Fitzwilliam Hotel, Shaw Court Apartments, Shelbourne Meridien, Stauntons on the Green, to name a few.
Try google "Dublin Hotels" and you'll get your answer.

hitler son or daughter?
Q. Did Adolf Hitler had any son or daughter whose generation is still carring on.

A. NO ... PERIOD ... BUT ... Adolf Hitler had an older half-brother, Alois, who was a bit of a ne'er do well and a wastrel and who had already been in prison twice for theft, before he went to Dublin, Ireland via Paris around 1909 where he worked in the Shelbourne Hotel as a waiter. There he met an Irish girl, Briget (or Brigid â the spelling varies!) Dowling and the two of them eloped to Liverpool, England where they married.

Her family were most upset by this marriage and were not reconciled to her until, in 1911 William Dowling, Brigid's father, attended the christening of his grandson, William Patrick Hitler in Liverpool.

At this time the Hitler family were living at 102 Upper Stanhope Street in Toxteth, a Liverpool suburb.

In the 1930s young William Patrick Hitler became a socialite and decided to trade on the glamour of his surname. He moved to Germany in the hopes that his connection to Uncle Adolf would guarantee him an easy ride in the Third Reich.

He bummed around Berlin and the Führer was not impressed. He was working in Germany in the '30s, and he'd gone there hoping to benefit from his uncle's position. At that time, having a Hitler in Germany, there was a good chance he was going to get a good position, but he found that he was kind of knocked around -- he worked at a lowly bank job, he worked in a car factory, never really getting any decent money or any position. He sent a blackmail letter to Adolf, basically saying: If you don't give me a better job and treat me a little bit better, I'll go public with the speculation within the family that Hitler himself had a Jewish grandfather ... Hitler kind of bowed down to it, this lowly nephew, and did give him some money, which is kind of curious, of all the terrible things that Hitler did, the one person that stood up to him seems to have been his own nephew, and who went away with the equivalent now to a quarter-million dollars.

In early 1939 William Patrick and his mother, under the aegis of William Randolph Hearst left England and went to the United States on a lecture tour where he had audiences of up to 1,500 a night.

After War between Germany and England broke out the two decided to remain in the United States.

In 1944 American moviegoers were startled to see flash on the screen. "Hitler joins US Navy". It was true, but it was William Patrick they were talking about.

Almost unbelievably, the man who signed William Patrick into the US navy carried the surname Hess.


Hitler's great nephews After the war, William, having become a phlebotomist moved to Long Island where he set up a blood analysis laboratory.

In 1947 he married Phyllis whom he had first met in Germany before the war. The two had four sons. Howard, the most out going of them was killed in a car crash in the 1980s.

The other three, who are in their late 30s to early 50s, are reported to have taken a pact *** at the behest of the American Government *** that they will have no children so that the Hitler blood line will die with them.

Two of them work in their own landscape gardening business in Long Island. The other brother, Alexander Adolf, is a social worker.

Alex was reported as saying that his father was an Englishman, he is an American and that while he has been to Germany several times as a tourist but he has no real interest in that country.

help please?
Q. Does anyone know any sites have reliable information on it about Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, and if you do would you be as kind as to give me the specific address.

A. Elizabeth Bowen was born Elizabeth Dorothea Cole in Dublin in 1899, taking her literary name from the family home Bowen's Court, in County Cork. Her novels include Encounters (London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923); The Hotel (London, Constable, 1927); The Last September (Constable, 1929); Friends and Relations (Constable, 1931); To the North (London, Gollancz, 1932); The House in Paris (Gollancz, 1935); The Death of the Heart (Gollancz, 1936); The Heat of the Day (London, Jonathan Cape, 1949); A World of Love (Jonathan Cape, 1955); The Little Girls (Jonathan Cape, 1964); The Good Tiger (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1965); and Eva Trout (Alfred A. Knopf, 1968). Her short story collections include Ann Lee's and Other Stories ( London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1926); Joining Charles and Other Stories (London, Constable, 1929); The Cat Jumps and Other Stories (London, Gollancz, 1934); The Demon Lover and Other Stories (London, Jonathan Cape, 1945); Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1959); and A Day in the Dark and Other Stories (Jonathan Cape, 1965). Her non-fiction includes Look At All Those Roses (London, Gollancz, 1941); Bowen's Court (London, Longmans Green, 1942); Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood (Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1942); Anthony Trollope: A New Judgement (New York & London, Oxford University Press, 1946); Why Do I Write: An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V.S. Pritchett (London, Percival Marshall, 1948); Collected Impressions (Longmans Green, 1950); The Shelbourne: A Centre in Dublin Life for More Than A Century(London, George G. Harrap, 1951); A Time in Rome(New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1960); Afterthought: Pieces About Writing (London, Longmans Green, 1962); and The Mulberry Tree, (London, Vintage, 1999). Elizabeth Bowen died in London in 1973.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/elizabeth-bowen/




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