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Posted on February 27, 2019February 27, 2019

Tipperary artist Claire Mulholland: stained glass window of St Elizabeth of Hungary, St Peter’s Church, Partick, Glasgow

I came across this striking window in St Peter’s Church, Hyndland Street, Glasgow: Here is a reflection by the artist: And another angle of the Saint: And what do you…

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Posted on February 25, 2019February 27, 2019

Apologetic temperance

At The Frailest Thing, LM Sacasas has a post on digital detox provoked by this New York Times piece by Kevin Roose. The whole thing (in both cases) is worth…

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Posted on February 23, 2019February 23, 2019

“To Scale: The Solar System” a film by Wylie Overstreet and Dylan Gorosh

This wonderful short film takes a very simple idea and executes it brilliantly, and in the process brings home forcefully the smallness of our world in the solar system and…

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Posted on February 23, 2019February 22, 2019

Happy Real Bread Week to (and with) the Auld Mill Bakery in Grangemockler

It is Real Bread Week. As I am sure you knew. The Real Bread Campaign is encouraging people to bake their own, or to buy additive free locally made loaves.…

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Posted on February 21, 2019February 21, 2019

The lost worlds of Debois and Julieta Guipeal at the Tipperary County Museum

This is Portrait of a Man, by Julieta Guipeal: Apologies for the photo quality – this was taken with my phone’s camera in a well-lit (and thereby reflective) space. It…

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Posted on February 21, 2019

You are not alone: the word “sonder”

I recently came across the word “sonder” Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that…

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Posted on February 21, 2019

“F***lands 1982”, E J Peters

Currently this piece by the late E J Peters – based apparently on an actual small ad – is on displayin Tipperary County Museum in Clonmel as part of their…

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Posted on February 19, 2019

Prometheus Unbound in Callan

I spied this mosaic on the wall of Callan Fire Station: On closer inspection, it turns out to portray the bringer of fire himself, Prometheus: Here is the website of…

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