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Via the everfascinating Pilgrimage in Medical Ireland blog here is a post on pilgrimage to St Declan’s Holy Well, Ardmore, Waterford featuring footage from 1910 The footage is from the…
I had a recent visit to The Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin. It was a highly pleasurable experience – which was reassuring, because I had found recent trips to bookshops…
The singer Sonny Knowles “known as The Window Cleaner to his fans,”, a staple of the Irish showband scene, has died. Via Wikipedia I came across this, which I screenshotted…
Made in Inchicore, Ritchie’s Milky Mints (and their other products) have a cheeringly straightforward design aesthetic which is blissfully immune, it seems, to rebranding. I was glad to recently see a van in…
As demanded by absolutely no-one, here are all the posts I have done this month on species extinct in Ireland since the coming of humanity…. Extinct in Ireland: September 1st,…
The final species I have selected for this month of Irish extinctions is the crane. The crane only went extinct in late medieval times, and features much in Irish poetry…
Clonmel Apple Fest is here. Clonmel Applefest is a brand new festival which aims to celebrate the unique ‘sense of place’ emanating from Clonmel’s special location and mix of industrial…
From Whittled Away: Bred at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon, until 1957. This 2015 Irish Examiner piece gives more of the story: The species once had a special relationship with Ireland; a County…
Séamus Sweeney 