Fiction updates
A while ago (during November, to be exact) I blogged that I was using NaNoWriMo as a framework for trying to finish a story I was writing. I wrote that I…
Month: January 2016
Atlas Maior of 1665 / Philip’s Universal Atlas of the World. TLS 10th February 2006
Originally published in the TLS – original link available only to subscribers. With thanks to Maren Meinhardt for supplying me with the printed text. This is one of those pieces…
The Casebook of Carnacki, The Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson. SF Site 2014
I came across this book in a Clonmel bookshop, and it became one of the pieces I submitted to SF Site based on my own reading, rather than a book…
Robert MacFarlane’s “Landmarks” and the literature of nature
I should love Robert MacFarlane’s “Landmarks”, but it is proving strangely difficult to get through. Normally I reserve any kind of reviewing judgment on books until I have completely finished…
The Solitary Golfer, nthposition, March 2012
From about 2010 I began to submit my stories to various publications with mixed results. Around the same time I discovered duotrope.com and how accessible the world of literary publications…
Côte de Granit Rose and Magheragallon
The Pink Granite Coast of Brittany, along Ploumanac’h is an enchanting, strange landscape. My then two year old leapt to his heart content up and down boulders, perhaps to a degree…
The Jumping Church of Ardee, Co Louth.
This is a video I took a few years back of the “Jumping Church” of Kildemock, near Ardee, Co Louth. Rather embarrassingly, part two never appeared. Not far…
Knockroe Passage Tomb, Kilkenny
Knockroe Passage Tomb is one of the most impressive megalithic structures I have seen around Ireland. In another country, or even in Northern Ireland, it would be a celebrated and…
Séamus Sweeney 