In their performance piece “Gnome Core,” artist Alex Tatarsky plays a cranky hermit with one of the worst jobs in history. Artist in residence Alex Tatarsky developed their performance while exploring ...

If you’re a gardener, this time of year likely has you thinking about the backyard. Your plans might include moving the flower beds or restocking the fish pond. They do not, most likely, involve ...

Who would be a hermit? Dwelling in solitude with just a few books, choice objects and spiders for company, sleeping on a rude wooden bed, feasting on herbs and berries, contemplating oblivion… Well, a ...

Wealthy people in 18<sup>th century Britain would pay people to live as hermits on their estates so they could show them off to friends. The bizarre practice has been explained by Prof Gordon Campbell ...

This week, for the first time in years, I am home alone. No beloved Rose. No beloved children. No beloved children’s friends sleeping on sofas and floors. ‘Happy the man,’ wrote Alexander Pope when he ...

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The 300-year-old Queen Anne style home fronting the Liffey at Leixlip dates from a time when gardens had live-in hermits for decoration, writes Mark Keenan The Queen Anne style home with fishing ...