Beshoff’s Chip Shop Founder was Last Survivor of Potemkin Mutiny
From his 1987 New York Times obituary: Ivan Beshoff, the last survivor of the 1905 mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin, a harbinger of the Russian Revolution, died Sunday, his…
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Choctaw artist/writer Waylon Gary White Deer to lead Tipperary Famine Walk 28th July 2018
Choctaw artist Waylon Gary White Deer to lead Tipperary Famine Walk in Ballingarry on 28th July. From the Ballingarry Facebook Page: You are invited to this year’s Famine 1848 Walk…
Stained Glass from St Mary’s Church, Aughnacloy, Parish of Aghaloo and Carntell, Co. Tyrone
This parish has three Churches – St Mary’s Church Aughnacloy, St Joseph’s Church Caledon & St Brigid’s Church Killens. St Mary’s Church is located just beyond the main road of Aughnacloy in…
Stained Glass from St Patrick’s Church, Crossmaglen (Creggan Upper Parish), Co. Armagh
This is the parish church of Upper Creggan parish in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh. St Patrick’s Church has a photo gallery on Flickr and an informative website. In 2015 this fine…
“Conas tá an misneach?” / “How is the courage?”
I have been reading the beautifully produced book Aneas – Saíocht ó thraidisiún Gaelach na Mumhan. This book features various proverbs, sayings and idioms of Munster Irish, with a text…
“Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven: The Phenomenon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond” – a paper by Michael McCaughran links the Kilnaruane Pillar, Françoise Henry and Seamus Heaney
Via Medievalists.Net, I came across this paper from 1998 this paper (on page 175 of the PDF): Abstract : This paper explores the phenomenon of ships voyaging in the sky.…
“The Best Lack All Conviction, while the Worst / Are Full Of Passionate Intensity”
According to this article from August 2016, lines from Yeats’ The Second Coming were quoted more often in the first seven months of 2016 than in any of the prior…
See the Domnach Airgid (or Domhnach Airgid) in Dublin
A while back I blogged about the Domhnach Airgid, an artefact in the National Museum which is a shrine for a manuscript of the Gospels. It turns out that the…
Séamus Sweeney 