The Bram Stoker plaque, which had been missing from the facade of 30 Kildare Street, Dublin, mysteriously reappeared over the weekend. It had been absent for three, possibly four, years. I’ve previously written about the plaque for the Guardian here, and on the blog here.
Dr Albert Power, of the Bram Stoker Society writes:
‘On Tuesday 17th I drove specially into the city to check for myself, and – yes, there it was! [...] There’s no doubt that it’s the original plaque and not a replacement. The most recent photograph of it I had seen was John Moore’s from May 2008, when it had been coloured brown: it was blue back in 1983. Furthermore, upon close examination there looks like to be a faint shading or patina along its inner rim, which would suggest storage in a damp place or having been secreted under something which had left an impression. It also looked to me that it was hung ever so slightly askew. [...] It’s quite a while, to the best of my knowledge, since any of us did anything about this, and I for one had regarded the battle (with much sadness) as lost. Maybe the cumulative effect of all these efforts took its intended toll.
30 Kildare Street before the reinstatement of the plaque
Fearghal
January 20, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Just in time for his centenary too!
I’m heading to walk about in Bran, Transylvania, tomorrow.
On the Dracula theme this might interest http://infocult.typepad.com/dracula/2009/05/harker-travels-east-via-google-maps.html
Bram Stoker plaque rises from the dead « Dumb Riffs
January 27, 2012 at 9:24 am
[...] about the plaque’s disappearance: my Guardian article from 2010 here and previous blogposts here and here. Stoker plaque at 30 Kildare Street. Photo by Warren Whitney. No [...]