“Alone”, Edgar Allan Poe – read by Basil Rathbone
“Alone” By Edgar Allan Poe From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring—…
Category: art
The Hippo Gargoyle of Laon
Among Laon Cathedral’s sculpture, I thought one gargoyle deserved a post of its own. Here is the façade of the cathedral And here is a gargoyle of a hippo, of…
Statuary from Laon Cathedral
I don’t pretend these random shots capture the glory of Laon Cathedral and I did not get an adequate picture of the highly impressive oxen statues in the tower (see…
A medieval wooden stature of St Molua at St Molua’s Church, Killaloe, Ballycallan, Kilkenny
St Molua’s Church, Killaloe, Ballycallan Parish, Kilkenny, is not to be confused with St Molua’s Church in the other Killaloe in Country Clare. And indeed one must not confuse Molua…
Wallace Holy Water Font, Ss Peter and Paul’s Church, Clonmel
“Designed, sculpted Presented J Wallace Clonmel January 1853” is inscribed on this HOly Water Font located in the narthex (fancy word for a church lobby, I just looked this up…
“loneliness, the toxic by-product of freedom which generates ad-hoc, fragile communities among people who have escaped conventional backgrounds and who, after dreaming of cosmopolis, wake up atomized.”
A few weeks back I came across a brief review in the New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl of the current Whitney Biennial, which turned out to be a condensed version…
#MarianMay – the playlist
After the enormous success of #ChoralMarch and #AprilCountry, #MarianMay did not perhaps set the Internet on fire, but I did enjoy exploring the wide range of Marian-inspired music, with a good representation from contemporary, living…
Séamus Sweeney 