Knockroe Passage Tomb, Kilkenny
Knockroe Passage Tomb is one of the most impressive megalithic structures I have seen around Ireland. In another country, or even in Northern Ireland, it would be a celebrated and…
Category: adventure
“The Gap in The Curtain”, John Buchan
Inspired by this post on The Dabbler , I purchased the slightly incongruously named Sir Edward Leithen Megapack a while back. I was using the comments section of the same Dabbler post to update an…
Review of “The Extra”, Michael Shea, SF Site 2010
I began writing for SF site to try and shake up some of my writing and reading choices. I recall this review as one where I felt I found my…
Review of “Through A Distant Mirror Darkly”, by Mark Lord. SF Site 2014
I read Tim Severin’s The Brendan Voyage over the last few days – a wonderful adventure story and a stirring depiction of how medieval technology was adapted to the conditions it faced.…
A note on whales and silence from The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
“But on the voyage itself none of Brendan’s crew guessed what was about to happen, not even Trondur, who had a great deal of experience of whales and whale-catching. Day after…
The Last Battle of World War II, piece about Die Hard, originally written for Miscellany (TCD magazine, possibly during its brief UCD/TCD existence)
This ultimately ended up as a review on the Internet Movie Database . Originally it was a piece for Miscellany. Miscellany is a TCD magazine with a long history. For one year,…
Séamus Sweeney 