Fifty Years On: “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”, Margaret Craven
Originally posted on Leaves & Pages:
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ~ 1967. This edition: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1977. Softcover. ISBN: 0-7720-0617-2. 138 pages. My…
Category: pilgrimage
sunlight through stained glass – St Anthony’s Chapel, Franciscan Friary, Clonmel
More photos of this chapel’s glass here More from the Abbey here
Hore Abbey, Cashel
Hore Abbey is literally overshadowed by theRock of Cashel. It is well worth taking the path down from the Rock to the considerably less touristed Abbey. There is a relative…
Random bits of statuary from Cormac’s Chapel, Rock of Cashel
More info on this chapel here .
St Jerome in His Study, Albrecht Dürer
I first came across this engraving in an exhibition of Dürer engravings in the Chester Beatty Library over a decade ago. In my completely uninformed way, what struck me most was the…
St Leonard’s Well, Dunnamaggin, Kilkenny
St Leonard is the patron of Dunnamaggin, as well as women in labour and imprisoned people. KCLR fm have an mini documentary on this well with an interesting and charming…
“A culture is no better than its woods” – W H Auden, “Bucolics”
(Edit 22nd August 2018 – welcome if you have come here by Googling “a culture is no better than its woods”, you may also be interested in this post about…
World Labyrinth Day 2017 – May 6th, 1 pm
From the Blog My Maze site: Again you are invited from The Labyrinth Society to celebrate the World Labyrinth Day: Celebrate the eighth annual World Labyrinth Day (WLD) on Saturday,…
Séamus Sweeney 