Review of “Oestrogen Matters’ in the current TLS
In the current TLS I have a brief review of Avram Bluming and Carol Tavris’ book on HRT. The full text is available to subscribers; here is the first paragraph:…
Category: self promotion
Review of “How To Build An Android: The True Story of Philip K Dick’s Robotic Resurrection”, SF Site, 2013
I posted this review of “How To Build An Android: The True Story of Philip K Dick’s Robotic Resurrection” by David Dufty on the SF Site in 2013 – I originally reblogged…
The most pompous Irish ad ever?
A while back I posted a compilation of pompous Irish ads. Of course, this was in some way giving them even more exposure than they already received (though I don’t kid…
Reflections on my top Spotify plays of 2018
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! I wonder why Spotify do this with over three weeks of the year still to go? Perhaps it is so that is…
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…
Erratum re Harry Clarke / Fethard
Early last year I posted on the stained glass of Augustinian Priory, Fethard. This includes this window depicting Our Lady of Fatima: I had picked up somewhere that it was from…
“the success-failure whiplash”
I came across the above phrase here : One of the dangers of forming a modern identity around achievement is what Rev. Tim Keller calls “the success-failure whiplash.” Succeeding in…
‘Eels, being put into wine or beer, and suffered to die in it, he that drinks it will never endure that sort of liquor again’
Not sure what has moved me to resurrect this old post, but here are two letters I sent to the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism from May 2010 and then May 2014 on…
Séamus Sweeney 