Skip to content Menu

Séamus Sweeney

Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda

Sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Extinct in Ireland
  • On Silence
  • Rogues

Category: insects

Posted on May 22, 2016

Happy International Day for Biological Diversity!

The UN, no less, have declared 22nd May to be International Day for Biological Diversity! Normally I am pretty sceptical of these kinds of “official” days for this and that. However, they…

Continue Reading
Posted on October 22, 2015October 22, 2015

Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius. Kurt Johnson & Steve Coates. Lancet, 11th March 2000.

I only recently realised that my book review on wolves in Ireland isn’t actually my only “natural history” piece. This is in fact my first piece published in a proper, non-student publication.…

Continue Reading

Posts pagination

Previous Page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
Top

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Palm Sunday thoughts from a City Priest
  • (no title)
  • Seamus at Herge museum 20.06.19
  • (no title)
  • University observer

Top Posts & Pages

  • "Curlews Lift", Ted Hughes
  • Review of "The Raw Shark Texts", Steven Hall
  • "When I landed in the republic of conscience / it was so noiseless when the engines stopped./ I could hear a curlew high above the runway."
  • The lost world of Ana Olgica
  • "Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio" - plainchant setting of Prayer to St Michael the Archangel from Heiligenkreuz Abbey
  • Photographs of Jorge Luis Borges in Palermo, 1984, by Ferdinando Scianna
  • "someone who is abnormally normal" - Christopher Bollas, Adam deVille, social media, and the "normotic" self
  • The "lazy and indifferent" heron of "Monday or Tuesday", Virginia Woolf
  • Stained Glass from Church of the Guardian Angels, Newtownpark Avenue, Dublin 
  • "Have yourself a merry little Christmas..." - the execution scene from "The Victors" (1963)

Posts from “A Medical Education” (sister blog of medical writing): A Medical Education

Underwear that counts steps, tracks calories, monitors sleep? Count me in!

Medical watches

Utako Okamoto 1st April 1918 – 21st April 2016

Core Emergency Medicine Podcast on V Fib and Pulseless V Tachy

Give TXA now!

Follow Séamus Sweeney on WordPress.com

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Séamus Sweeney
    • Join 225 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Séamus Sweeney
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar