All The Time In The World: Disconnecting to Reconnect
Trailer – All the Time in the World from Suzanne Crocker on Vimeo. All The Time In The World is a charming documentary which follows a Canadian family of five…
Category: adventure
Peter Reason on being a pilgrim and being a tourist
I recently re-blogged a section from Peter Reason’s new book, In Search of Grace. I’ve been reading it over the weekend and am sorely tempted to simply copy out sections.…
Panoramas from Lough Mohra Looped Walk
I am unsure if the panorama function on a phone camera is all that effective, but for what its worth here are some made on Lough Mohra looped walk. This…
Frank Ebrington, The Dubliner who was The World’s Fastest Man
From “Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time” by Simon Garfield Before sport became a subject for record books, there was just the realisation that humans (upright, no tail)…
“occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist”
Reading F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up I came across a reference to a William Seabrook: William Seabrook in an unsympathetic book tells, with some pride and a movie ending, of…
Laptop Warriors – on the “Stealing the Network” series. SAU Blog, October 2007
As it stands, my last contribution to the Social Affairs Unit blog is this piece on two novels written by (firstly) Ryan Russell, Tim Mullen (Thor), FX, Dan “Effugas” Kaminsky, Joe Grand, Ken…
Fifty Years On: “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”, Margaret Craven
Originally posted on Leaves & Pages:
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ~ 1967. This edition: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1977. Softcover. ISBN: 0-7720-0617-2. 138 pages. My…
Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Laboured Modernisation
From The Social Affairs Unit blog on January 5th 2005. Since this was written, and even more “modernised” version, the BBC’s “Sherlock”, has been made and widely celebrated. While I initially…
Séamus Sweeney 