Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
Recently I came across Butler House, the former dower house of Kilkenny Castle. In its topiaried gardens I came across this: Not sure how legible that is. I recall Nelson’s…
Reading the Wikipedia page on Dungannon, Co Tyrone I came across this: An interesting feature of the town is the former police barracks at the top right-hand corner of the market square…
Recently I came across the placename Geneva Barracks, near Passage East in Waterford. Obviously a slightly unusual name, I wondered was it an Anglicisation of something – but in fact…
It’s from way back in 2012 and the second issue of the now sadly defunct Alt Hist, but David X Wiggins’ “The Apollo Mission” is a story that has stayed…
A few years ago I came across this obituary in the Daily Telegraph. It seems a little parochial to wonder if, in the midst of a busy and incident-packed life,…
A Queens University Belfast study on medieval knowledge of astronomy touches on a recurrent theme here: the false myth of the Dark Ages: “The idea for this study came about…
At the now defunct Sci Phi journal, here is an interesting story by G Scott Huggins, “The Unbelievers”. The story has a fairly clear theological point, but also reminded me…
My story “The Granddaughter Paradox” was published about this time last year in Sci Phi Journal. Unfortunately, I have now discovered, Sci Phi journal is no more (although the website is still…
Séamus Sweeney 