Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
I didn’t realise that this piece is from as far back as 2006. Twelve years ago! Charlie Booker’s persona can grate after a fairly little while, but on Banksy he…
“All are drawn unwittingly into the structure of violent reciprocity -which they always think they are outside of- because they all initially come from the outside and mistake this positional…
I have posted photos of Glencomeragh in February and photos of Glencomeragh in August. Glencomeragh was a Rosminian retreat centre near Kilsheelan (which is in Tipperary, but Glencomeragh is across the Suir…
Around the time I wrote this I was partial to insider accounts of film-making, and was favourably impressed with the sheer amount of time wasting this seemed to involve. I…
On Bastille Day 2005 this piece appeared on the Social Affairs Unit blog. The only chance, so far, I have had to deploy Frangere dum metuis, franges crystallina, peccant / Securae nimium solicitaeque…
From The Nationalist (current edition): Close up on the story itself: Close up on record holder Tommy Noonan: Close up on the man with the 20 euro:
As this page points out, faith communities tend to own and manage considerable land (also quite spread out round the country). It is good to see this kind of outreach…
Aldo Leopold died of a heart attack while battling a fire on a neighbour’s property on April 21, 1948. He is one of those literary figures better known and much…
