Café Racer The Motorcycle: Featherbeds, Clip-ons, Rear-sets and the Making of a Ton-up Boy. Parker House (2008). Welte, Sabine, Cafe Racer. Bruckmann Verlag GmbH, 2008.
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Essentially the cycle parts of the ES2 and a 600 cc Dominator 99 engine, it was in production at the same time as the Dominator 99 as a sidecar motorcycle but was dropped from production after 1957, when sidecar Featherbeds were introduced.
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St Kevin's Reformatory was operated by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI). For most of the year, the boys were housed in the rear building, which now stands derelict. On several occasions, boys attempted to escape back to Dublin. In 1878, a young student Shane Bodkin died from exposure on the Featherbeds after trying to leave the school.
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They married in the University Church, St Stephen's Green on 2 May 1919, with Keating listing her religion as "independent" on the marriage certificate as she identified as agnostic. They first lived in rooms on Parnell Square, and later moved to a small rented cottage at Featherbeds, Killakee, County Dublin. They had two sons, Michael (1927–2001) and Justin. She was a frequent model for her husband's paintings.
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The River Dargle rises on the northern flank of the mountain, close to the source of the River Liffey in the Featherbeds; they rise either side of the catchment boundary, the Liffey flowing west and the Dargle flowing east. Powerscourt Waterfall, one of the highest waterfall in Ireland, lies on its eastern slope. Djouce overlooks to the west the highlands around the Sally Gap; to the east the Roundwood / Calary Bog plateau. It also overlooks the corrie lake of Lough Tay to the southwest.
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The window was donated by Charles Henry Crompton-Roberts, of Drybridge House, a local business man and landowner who was a substantial benefactor to the town."From Featherbeds to Bridges": The story of Drybridge House and the Crompton-Roberts family, p.49 After Kempe's death, his company also undertook the Four Edwards Window on the South wall, completed in 1911. It features Edward VII, a close friend of Lord Llangattock of The Hendre, a local landowner, as well as Edward the Confessor, Edward I and Edward, the Black Prince.
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Following the breach an attempt was made to storm the city, but the defenders repelled the charge. According to an account at the time by Lord Byron, the breach was stopped up with woolpacks and featherbeds from all parts of the town. One can see to this day the repairs made to the wall, the section of which is next to the Roman Gardens (see photo below). On the evening of 23 September 1645, King Charles I entered the City of Chester with 600 men via the Old Dee Bridge.
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After the Dissolution of the Monasteries it became the property of the Duke of Somerset. By 1562, when a 21-year lease on the building was taken out by George Cowdrey, it was described as "in such great ruin that it is likely that in default of repair within a few years the rent will not be answered" but included "six featherbeds". In 1658 the property was divided and a horsemill installed to grind malt. The building was also used for meetings and inquiries for example by Royal Commissioners (in 1672) and the Quakers (in 1691).
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Some commentators have claimed that Edward's escape was actually successful, and that someone else was later murdered in his place. Historical sources record that Edward was murdered there on 21 September 1327. Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1587 edition), drawing on earlier sources, describes Edward's murder in detail: > they [the murderers] came suddenlie one night into the chamber where he laie > in bed fast asléepe, and with heauie featherbeds or a table (as some > [sources] write) being cast vpon him, they kept him down and withall put > into his fundament [i.e., his anus] an horne, and through the same they > thrust vp into his bodie an hot spit, or (as other [sources] haue) through > the pipe of a trumpet a plumbers instrument of iron made verie hot, the > which passing vp into his intrailes, and being rolled to and fro, burnt the > same, but so as no appearance of any wound or hurt outwardlie might be once > perceiued.
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