One gets the sense that Ralph Cusack was always looking for the next project in which to throw himself, writes Adam Pearson
A restless and somewhat illusive figure, Ralph Cusack is a name that recurs often in the Irish art and literary scene of the 1940s and 1950s. Born in 1912 to an established Anglo-Irish family, Ralph Desmond Athanasius Cusack was the son of Major Roy Cusack, a Dublin stockbroker and president of the Royal Irish Automobile Club in the 1930s. The family home was Drumnigh House in Portmarnock, while Roy’s older brother owned Abbeville, later to be the home of Charlie Haughey. As a child, Ralph shared a governess with Terence de Vere White in Portmarnock where, according to the latter’s autobiography, he already had a penchant for causing trouble.
The Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick is now one of the most digitally advanced libraries in the world, writes Judith Hill