Literary graffiti in Clonmel
The other day I spied this scrawled on a wall in Clonmel: Impressively erudite, and with correct use of apostrophes. Although I did find the need to specify that these…
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Sci Phi journal no more
My story “The Granddaughter Paradox” was published about this time last year in Sci Phi Journal. Unfortunately, I have now discovered, Sci Phi journal is no more (although the website is still…
The past and future of handwriting- David Rundle in the TLS
In the current TLS there is an excellent review by David Rundle of two recent books on handwriting. Anyone who knows me, or more specifically had had to read my…
Textspeak in the 18th Century – the case of Pot-8-Os
Once, Prince’s use of “U” for “you” and “2” for “to” (or “too” or “two”) was seen as an example of his supposed eccentricity. Now, of course, it is all…
“Fearful of My Joy” – Adam deVille on cooking, feasting and the sacramental
I am running the risk of turning this blog into nothing but reposting of Adam deVille, but I could resist this 2013 post on cooking, feasting, joy, and the sacramental…
“the vulgar and rather infantile things you really do want” – Adam deVille on prayer and psychoanalysis
I have linked before to Eastern Christian Books, the blog of Adam de Ville. One of deVille’s recurrent themes is the unnecessary and unhelpful perceived antagonism between psychoanalysis and religion..…
“The pilgrimage is not all plain sailing, not all peak experience” – Peter Reason on the messy human reality of pilgrimage
One of the charms of Peter Reason’s “In Search of Grace” is his human honesty at the gap between the lofty ambition of pilgrimage and actual experience. At the very outset of…
A butterfly in the woods: guerrilla forest art in Millennium Forest Kilkenny
Walking in the Millennium Forest in Kilkenny I saw in the distance what seemed like an unbelievably considerate butterfly lying still on a tree trunk: As I approached, it was suspiciously still…
Séamus Sweeney 