Review of “Wild Abandon”, Joe Dunthorne, TLS, August 19th 2011
This is a brief review of an entertaining second novel by Joe Dunthorne. It didn’t quite have the success of Submarine, which was a pity, since in many ways the…
Category: oddly enough
“occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist”
Reading F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up I came across a reference to a William Seabrook: William Seabrook in an unsympathetic book tells, with some pride and a movie ending, of…
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”
There are quotes – like “Let them eat cake” and an awful lot of things supposedly said by Mark Twain – which are indestructibly associated with the wrong person, or the completely wrong context. This…
William Gerhardie – review of “God’s Fifth Column”, The Dabbler, 2015
Another William Gerhardie piece, this time ten years on from the SAU blog one and covering much of the same ground about his odd kind of fame. The Dabbler had a feature…
Birthplace of St Columba, Gartan, Donegal
Traditionally, St Columba’s birthplace was near Lough Gartan, Church Hill, Co Donegal. Church Hill is a village near Glenveagh National Park, and is on the fringes of the Derryveagh…
Review of Fugitive Minds, Antonio Melechi, Nthposition 2005
This review, unlike that of“Old Friends”, now seems rather dated. Not because of the book (which I would like to re-read) but the tone, simultneously bombastically magisterial in the opening paragraphs…
Wild Boars in Ireland
Every couple of years there seems to be a flurry of media interest in the presence of otherwise of wild boards in Ireland – as we can see from this…
Joseph Needham, history of technology and the Ahenny High Crosses
Living in South Tipperary, the proximity of the a plethora of high crosses naturally piques ones interest. Some are well known, such as the Ahenny Crosses, some such as that…
Séamus Sweeney 