#ChoralMarch – the playlist
Not sure how many people care but here are the Choral March selections of, um, choral music in playlist form..
Category: art
Stained Glass from Our Lady Queen of Peace, Kilmanagh, Kilkenny
Our Lady Queen of Peace is one of the × of Ballycallan Parish, and is the most “modern” in architecture. Indeed, from the outside it is rather unprepossessing. Inside however,…
“the only wisdom within our grasp during our stay in the insoluble mystery of who and where and when we are is the wisdom of humility?”
Comment sections have a bad press, and one can understand when even the most innocuous YouTube video can have all sorts of rabid anger unleashed below. Sometimes, however, comments can…
Sacred Music from Notre Dame Cathedral, Tonus Peregrinus
A few weeks ago I posted tracks from this album as part of the ChoralMarch blog series. It is hard to believe the cover of this album – with Notre…
“Walkies”, Sean Walsh
Sean Walsh is a contemporary artists living in Cahir, Co. Tipperary. “Walkies” is painted on crushed stone. I highly recommend attending one of his exhibitions and he is a plessurw…
In Memoriam Mark Hollis: On April 5th, here is Talk Talk with April 5th
One of the first, if not the first, albums I bought independently with my own hard-saved chore money was the Talk Talk compilation Natural History. It turned out this was…
“O Believe , My Heart, O Believe!” – #ChoralMarch concludes March 31st with finale of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”
It’s the end of my #ChoralMarch project. Thank you to those who commented kindly and Liked etc. I would like to go out on a high note, with the choral…
Flannery and Dante – a poem by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
At The Other Journal I come across this poem “riffing on Flannery O’Connor’s fandom for Dante” as the site itself puts it: Flannery and Dante For my money Dante is about as…
Séamus Sweeney 