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    A triumph of mutual accord

    Mar 10, 2021 2 minutes

    WHEN was sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, the 39-year-old director of the National Gallery in Dublin, Sir Hugh Lane, was numbered among the dead. Improbably, he has been in the news again this week, but—Athena is pleased to say

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