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Posted on August 16, 2018August 16, 2018

“Be Still”, Agnes Hunt RHSM – poem in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford.

  I have posted photos of Glencomeragh in February and photos of Glencomeragh in August. Glencomeragh was a Rosminian retreat centre near Kilsheelan (which is in Tipperary, but Glencomeragh is across the Suir…

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Posted on August 15, 2018

All-Ireland Pollinator Plan: call on Faith Communities to help pollinators

As this page points out, faith communities tend to own and manage considerable land (also quite spread out round the country). It is good to see this kind of outreach…

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Posted on July 28, 2018July 28, 2018

The Commons – Ballingarry Famine Walk , 28th July 2018

A little while ago I blogged that Choctaw artist/writer Waylon Gary White Deer was to lead a Famine Walk on the 28th July Well, today was the 28th July, so…

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Posted on July 24, 2018July 24, 2018

Pilgrimage at St Declan’s Well, Toor, Co. Waterford

Originally posted on Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland:
St Declan’s Well at Toor in Co. Waterford, has a special significance for me as my grandmother, who was originally from the area,…

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Posted on July 18, 2018July 18, 2018

Non-Binary Review call for submissions on Dante’s Inferno (deadline 24th Oct 2018)

More info here: NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue’s theme. We invite  authors to explore each theme in…

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Posted on July 3, 2018

“Carbon dioxide should be regarded the same way we view other waste products” – Klaus Lackner and changing minds on carbon

This Elizabeth Kolbert article from the New Yorker on carbon capture is a few months old, but still well worth reading. It is sobering to read how many of the…

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Posted on June 24, 2018June 24, 2018

“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.…

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Posted on June 17, 2018

St Carthage and the miracle of the ever flowing barrel of beer

“Bóthar na Naomh and the Black Lane: Roadway of the Saints” is a booklet produced by the Whitechurch Historial Group. It describes itself as a “map and compendium” completed “to…

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