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The opening paragraphs of Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia: Life in The Age of Bewilderment””: In Of Plymouth Plantation Governor Bradford (who arrived on the Mayflower) confronted the aftermath of a…
I have previously blogged about Anthony Powell. I’m well aware that he had little time for Ireland and the Irish – not something especially hard to discern from a quote likethis…
I have posted the climactic scene of Poulenc’s opera, “Dialogues of the Carmelites”, not once but twice Today, three days after Bastille Day, is the feast day of the Martyrs…
Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, has died aged 90. From Caramel Caramelo: « L’amour, ce n’est pas faire des choses extraordinaires, héroïques, mais de faire des choses ordinaires avec tendresse.…
From The Writing Disorder If I Knew Braille If I knew Braille, perhaps I could read the graffiti of purple-mouthed limpets clinging to old, sea-washed boulders the secret Bibles of…
Comment sections have a bad press, and one can understand when even the most innocuous YouTube video can have all sorts of rabid anger unleashed below. Sometimes, however, comments can…
Sean Walsh is a contemporary artists living in Cahir, Co. Tipperary. “Walkies” is painted on crushed stone. I highly recommend attending one of his exhibitions and he is a plessurw…
Séamus Sweeney 