Thomas Kabdebo

Thomas Kabdebo

THOMAS KABDEBO (Budapest, 1934) attended school in Baja, and university in Budapest, studying Hungarian language and literature. He took part in the1956revolution and had to escape from revenge. He settled in Britain where he took further degrees concluding in PhD in history. He taught military history in Manchester, and then directed the university libraries of Guyana, the University of Westminster and finally the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He published forty books in English and in Hungarian as well as forty translations. His awards include: the Middle Cross of Hungary, the József Attila Prize, the Arany János Prize, and the Füst Milán Prize. He is the author of Danubius Danubia and Dictionary of Dictionaries. His present field of research is Hungarian-Irish historical connections.

AISLING IN HEAVEN

Aisling was a tourist guide working in the great house of Castletown, in Celbridge, arriving daily to her place of work on horseback. She lived in a cottage on the left side of the Liffey, where her mother kept horses and a llama. Aisling was a pretty girl but not

PENDRAGONIA – IN MEMORIAM KLÁRI SZERB

PENDRAGONIA1(IN MEMORIAM KLÁRI SZERB)2 This story within a story is told as it happened, without frills and as close to the facts as the writer’s memory allows given the distance of scores of years. When Klári Szerb arrived in London and László Cs. Szabó3 called me to meet her, I

FERENC PULSZKY

One of the most interesting figures of Hungary’s 19th century, Ferenc Pulszky was born in Eperjes on 17 September 1814 and died on 9 September 1897 in Budapest. He was a politician, a writer and a scholar: a man of multiple talents and of encyclopaedic knowledge. Eperjes in the 19th

A TEARDROP IN THE SEA (‘GOCCIA SCORRE NELLA PIANURA’)

On 15 June 2013 the new wing of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth Library was officially opened. The building now has the capacity for one million printed books, journals, and countless other texts, pictures, drawings and soundtracks, materials with which, between 1983–2000, I had endeavoured to fill this house

WILLIAM SMITH O’BRIEN’S HUNGARIAN JOURNEY

One hundred and fifty years ago, in the summer of 1861 William Smith O’Brien, one time Irish MP at Westminster spent three weeks in Hungary, recording almost every day of his visit in his Journal. He was a leading member of the Young Irelanders. In the summer of 1848 he