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Posted on January 26, 2019January 26, 2019

“Being in space is like a child’s dream with adult problems” : We Need To Talk About Cosmos, a short film by Raphaël Bluzet

A charming, witty short film on astronaut life by Raphaël Bluzet well worth three and a bit minutes of your life.

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Posted on November 29, 2018March 17, 2019

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…

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Posted on July 10, 2018August 22, 2018

The lost world of Enno Aare

(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Ana Olgica and Amity Cadet) https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/aoifenichorcorain/playlist/74KqlNzk7NMTChonWbOC75 Continuing from my profiles of the work of Amity Cadet and…

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Posted on April 29, 2018April 29, 2018

“We tire of distraction or concentration. we sleep and are glad to sleep”

From “Choruses from the Rock”, T S Eliot: In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and…

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Posted on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

From “Sleep”, Haruki Murakami

It’ been a while since I blogged about the literature of sleep which was formerly a recurrent theme here. So here is the opening of a Haruki Murakami story call…

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Posted on April 6, 2018

The sound of night – from R Murray Schafer’s “Soundscapes”

“In the special darkness of the northern winter, where life was centered in small pools of candlelight, beyond which shadows draped and flickered mysteriously, the mind explored the dark side…

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Posted on January 20, 2018January 20, 2018

“Mental health apps offer a head start on recovery” – Irish Times, 18/01/18

Originally posted on A Medical Education:
Here is a piece by Sylvia Thompson on a recent First Fortnight panel discussion I took part in on apps in mental health. Dr…

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Posted on September 23, 2017September 24, 2017

Versions of Alcman’s “Sleep”

At First Known When Lost, Stephen Pentz collects some versions of fragmentary lines by the Spartan lyric poem Alcman. This fragment was used by Edgar Allan Poe for the epigraph…

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