Os Guinness on suffering in the digital age
The Table podcast features an interview with Os Guinness by Evan Rosa. Os Guinness is indeed the great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness. This hasn’t exactly insulated him from suffering – two…
Month: December 2018
The Horgan Brothers’ film record of pilgrimage to St Declan’s Holy Well, Ardmore, 1910 — via Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland
Via the everfascinating Pilgrimage in Medical Ireland blog here is a post on pilgrimage to St Declan’s Holy Well, Ardmore, Waterford featuring footage from 1910 The footage is from the…
Review of “The Raw Shark Texts”, Steven Hall
A book from way back in 2007 which I initially reviewed for Nthposition and then a slightly different form on SF Site. A relatively grumpy review. From his Wikipedia page,…
Are Daffodils a native Irish flower?
The thought occurred to me randomly, and wasn’t sorted out by a few seconds of Ecosia searching (but it’s not Google) – only this article by Dick Warner from 2011:…
Monday Monster Movie: Shin Godzilla
Like an Aaron Sorkin-scripted movie, “Shin Godzilla” features lots of serious looking people in suits striding around giving orders. Proof perhaps that Japan is not the isolated culture people sometimes…
“I’m actually a quite different person, I just never get around to being him.”
I came across this quote by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys via The Frailest Thing blog – the concept of the “ever denser web of deadlines required by the various social spheres” reminded…
Séamus Sweeney 