“a confidence man, ivory poacher and all-round rogue “
The opening line of John Seabrook’s Wikipedia bio is pretty impressive, but here we find a better: Pseudonym of UK-born author William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940), who emigrated to the USA…
Month: January 2018
“a media to look at rather than to read”
This article from Politico on Robert D’Agostino, the man behind the website Dagospia, is an interesting read on both Italian media/politics and the general mental landscape of the internet. I…
Reading on the bus: a literary bus conductor from Arnold Bax’s Farewell My Youth.
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“The pilgrimage is not all plain sailing, not all peak experience” – Peter Reason on the messy human reality of pilgrimage
One of the charms of Peter Reason’s “In Search of Grace” is his human honesty at the gap between the lofty ambition of pilgrimage and actual experience. At the very outset of…
Peter Reason on pilgrimage, ecology and in-between space.
From “In Search of Grace”: “In modern times, the idea of pilgrimage falls within so many cultural and spiritual traditions that it holds no single meaning. However, it usually entails…
“woefully unstable and vain”: Darrell Figgis, forgotten and despised man of the Irish Revolution
(edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on a strange experience in Dunfanaghy and here on a literary bus conductor. And I feature a seasonal…
Hearing secret harmonies in Dunfanaghy – Arnold Bax in Donegal, from “Farewell My Youth”
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A cobbler in stained glass: St Crispin from St Peter and Paul’s, Clonmel, courtesy of Munster Shoes Limited
It’s been a while since I have posted any Tipperary Stained Glass posts. I suppose the best explanation is that the chance hasn’t presented itself – this is very much…
Séamus Sweeney 