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Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019

#ChoralMarch – the playlist

Not sure how many people care but here are the Choral March selections of, um, choral music in playlist form..

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Posted on April 25, 2019

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,…

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Posted on April 23, 2019April 23, 2019

“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…

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Posted on April 15, 2019

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…

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Posted on April 11, 2019

“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…

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Posted on April 5, 2019April 4, 2019

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…

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Posted on March 31, 2019March 30, 2019

“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…

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Posted on March 29, 2019March 29, 2019

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…

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