Against the inspirational
A while back I posted about what I called the Inspirational Imperative; the pressure to craft suffering and distress and setbacks into more-easily-digestible, feelgood stories of “inspiration.” The need to…
Category: reflection
Tim Miller on the Bush funeral and “the sad truth of public theatre”
At his blog Truth and Silence, Tim Miller has a post on the funeral of George H W Bush and what it reveals about the media and our culture.. We have…
The demands of silence
On of the recurrent themes of this blog has been various writings – by others, by myself – on silence. Of course, all this verbal activity on silence carries with…
“I’m actually a quite different person, I just never get around to being him.”
I came across this quote by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys via The Frailest Thing blog – the concept of the “ever denser web of deadlines required by the various social spheres” reminded…
Poem: Magheragallon
A while back I posted a link to Non-Binary Review’s call for submissions for pieces inspired directly by Dante’s Inferno. Unfortunately (or not) my own efforts in this line were…
Apologia pro blogging-vita sua
Apologies for the coinage. I have generally tried to avoid navel gazing too much on this blog; the reader can judge how successfully. However, I have recently been taking stock…
?Holy Well, Newcastle, Tipperary
Walking along a bit of the East Munster Way near Newcastle, Co Tipperary, I came across this sign: Beside it stood a wooden stile and this sign which says, basically…
For Armistice Day: Franz Marc RIP
It is of course one hundred years exactly since the end of World War I – the “War To End All Wars”, which turned out to be false advertising. A…
Séamus Sweeney 