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Month: August 2015

Posted on August 31, 2015August 31, 2015

Review of The Sancy Blood Diamond: Power, Greed and the Cursed History of One of the World’s Most Coveted Gems. Susan Ronald. TLS May 5 2005

This is a pretty good example of the capsule reviews I started out contributing to the TLS. Capsule reviews impose a certain discipline on the reviewer – longer word counts…

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Posted on August 30, 2015August 30, 2015

Review of Wolves in Ireland by Kieran Hickey, TLS, April 2012.

Going through my writings, I realise how little deals with something of great personal importance to me; nature and the natural world. Of course, semantic quibbling teaches us that “nature”…

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Posted on August 29, 2015March 23, 2017

The Last Battle of World War II, piece about Die Hard, originally written for Miscellany (TCD magazine, possibly during its brief UCD/TCD existence)

This ultimately ended up as a review on the Internet Movie Database . Originally it was a piece for Miscellany. Miscellany is a TCD magazine with a long history. For one year,…

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Posted on August 29, 2015

Review of “Adaptation”, Limerick Event Guide 2003

In early 2003 I lived and worked in Limerick, a much maligned city that I remain very fond of. I contributed to a local magazine with the self explanatory name…

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Posted on August 28, 2015May 16, 2018

“Somewhere Near Venice”, from Shelf Life Magazine Issue #14 – I wrote this in early 2011 and it was published online in early 2012

Shelf Life Magazine is now defunct. When I look back at my early student writing, this is the kind of thing I was doing – I believe described by Michael…

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Posted on August 28, 2015August 28, 2015

Writings 1996 to date

Hello I have written a lot of words since 1996. Indeed, confining myself to non fiction, I have well over 150000 collected already (and possibly lots more when some of…

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Posted on August 28, 2015

Hello world!

This is your very first post. Click the Edit link to modify or delete it, or start a new post. If you like, use this post to tell readers why…

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