User:Flowerpotman/ttd

Things to do
If you do happen across this page, essentially it's a scratchpad - a Post-It note if you prefer - for things I want to do, should do or indeed should have done but haven't got around to, as well as random thoughts that may go some place some time, but not necessarily in the near future. So, if you are expecting cohesion of thought, detailed explanations of the logic used to arrive at a conclusion or exemplary adherence to the laws of grammar or spelling, this ain't the place. But if you do see something that you want to ask about or have a comment, you are more than welcome to drop a message on my User Talk Page.

TTD

 * Burnchapel Whaley, (Buck's less charming father. Buck Whaley article itself still needs expansion and more sources. Two of those I used (at least) draw from Sir Edward Sullivan's introduction to Whaley's memoirs, which they readily admit, but more sources that have different ancestry should be used; his politcal career needs some more expansion, even if he did spend most of the time he should have been in the Parliament around the corner in the gambling den.


 * Articles on the La Touches, even if only stubs to aid the disambiguation of all the LaT's who had seats in the Irish House of Commons for the one constituency, leaving aside the other LaT's who had seats elsewhere. (Haven't seen any source explicitly say it, but I assume Newcastle was a pocket constituency and they did have big pockets. And they were the bankers for the Whaleys, so Buck Whaley's tenure in one of the seats at age 18 seems......errr.....not unconnected. That said, have't seen a source saying that explicitly either.) Certainly the BOI founder David LaTouche should be deredlinked quickly anyway at least; although all the LaTouches are pretty much automatically notable as MPs, but sourcing for more than "they were MPs" would be harder (for me, with what I have) than the Bank of Ireland founder


 * Ballsbridge Embassy (had a better draft for expansion, but managed to lose the file, so definitely has to be redone. My gah there for leaving it so long).


 * Wide Streets Commission and its works: sourcing/expansion for the Commission and a couple of the streets (eg Westmorland Street) that came about as a result. (Note on WSC: fairly sure Essex Street bridge was a separate commission's work before the establishent of the WSC - there were smaller commissions of a similar nature before the WSC - so need to check that this weekend while I have the books.
 * King John's Castle (Limerick) Refs (and couple of other things: post 1922 housing estate in the courtyard for example and then the renovation in the 90s)


 * The Fall of the City and possibly Air Raid: two Archibald MacLeish radio plays from the 1930s, both considered influential and I have the sources to say so :). Although seriously, some of the sources raise the thorny question of how much you rely on Google book extracts rather than the actual books. But I did find enough by way of other sources to think of creating Fall of the City, at least. Surprised that article hasn't been created yet; also, at the risk of this turning into a blog entry, while a tad melodramtic in parts, the play makes darn good radio and is well worth a quick Google search and download.

Maybe?
Lewis' Toplogical Dictionary of Ireland (or Lewis himself?)