Ray High Cross, Falcarragh, Donegal
Ray is a townland a little beyond Falcarragh on the road to Dunfanaghy (near Joe & Anne Kane’s Studio) It boasts an ancient Irish Church site associated with Iona and therefore St Columba , and…
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Brian Anson – “a revolutionary for social justice” buried in Magheragallon Cemetery, Gweedore, Donegal
In Mahgeragallon cemetery, where my father, uncle, maternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents are buried, I came across the grave of Brian Anson. It is beside eight commonwealth war graves (three…
“Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: “THE THIRD WORD Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother. Our Divine Lord now turns, from the soul who at one bound…
Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross: Introduction to reflections by R H Benson
For Good Friday, I am posting reflections by Robert Hugh Benson, the son of an (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic priest and prolific writer before his early…
From “The State”, a short story by Tommy Orange
From The New Yorker, drawn from Orange’s forthcoming novel There There Before you were born, you were a head and a tail in a milky pool—a swimmer. You were a…
Review of “The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, The Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity”, Amir D Aczel, Lancet, 17th February 2001
Following on from a review of a book on Nabokov on butterflies, my second piece in a proper non-student publication was this review of Amir D Aczel’s book on George…
St Patrick’s Breastplate / The Deer’s Cry : music by Shaun Davey / Rita Connolly, Arvo Part, John Fahey, John Kenny, Melville Cook
As a child, I was somewhat mystified why a certain hymn in our religion books was called “St Patrick’s Breastplate” but went: Christ be beside me, Christ be before me,…
Textspeak in the 18th Century – the case of Pot-8-Os
Once, Prince’s use of “U” for “you” and “2” for “to” (or “too” or “two”) was seen as an example of his supposed eccentricity. Now, of course, it is all…
Séamus Sweeney 