Stained Glass from Powerstown, Clonmel, Tipperary Part 1
I have decided to take a slightly different approach to my posts on the Stained Glass of Tipperary churches (other prior posts here and here) – rather than an accumulation of blurry images I…
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Betty Corrigall
From First Known When Lost Betty Corrigall lived on the island of Hoy in Orkney in the 18th century. When she was in her late twenties, she was abandoned by her…
Review of “The Mystery of Being Human” by Raymond Tallis, TLS, 15/02/17
Behind a paywall online, I have a review of Raymond Tallis’ The Mystery of Being Human : God,Freedom and the NHS, in the current TLS. Here’s the bit that you…
Who does IBM Watson say that I am?
Recently I came across IBM Watson Personality Insights. This purports the following: Personality Insights extracts personality characteristics based on how a person writes. You can use the service to match…
The St Mary’s medieval parish church, Cahir Co Tipperary
Originally posted on Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland:
Each year thousands of tourist come to to the town of Cahir in Co Tipperary primarily to see the wonderful castle. Cahir Castle…
Bird feeding mid February
My last “Bird feeding notes”, was from mid November. One of the nice things about bird feeding is the heightened awareness of the passage of the seasons, and how even…
Vampirism as Mental Illness: Myth, Madness and the Loss of Meaning in Psychiatry
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
This is certainly the academic paper I have been involved with which has garnered the most media attention. Brendan Kelly and myself intended to write…
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