Scene and Heard: Clive James and Jonathan Miller pass away

One of the other big deaths this week was Clive James, and while we haven’t been able to find any Leeside branches in his family tree, some might remember his visit to the Everyman in 2006 as part of a tour around his memoir, North Face of Soho.

CORK CONNECTIONS: Several well-known figures from the arts/ents world passed away this week, including Jonathan Miller, the British theatre director who had an interesting connection to Cork.

His mother was Betty Spiro, the Cork-born daughter of a prominent Jewish family in the city. In Kate Bassett’s biography of Miller, she describes how his grandfather Simon got death threats during the War of Independence, for working as a justice of the peace in the court system.