Lingering at the window of the Curiosity Shop opposite Dun Laoghaire library, I noticed a Penguin edition of ‘Dr Johnson and Company’ by Irish journalist and essayist, Robert Lynd (1879-1949).
Lynd was born in Belfast and moved to London in 1901. He was a clubbable man, a companion of the Cheshire Cheese, ‘fragile in his Rhymesters’ black cloak’. He and his wife , Sylvia, a poet and novelist, entertained in great style. He spoke at James Connolly’s funeral in 1916. He was a friend and admirer of Roger Casement.