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(Nthposition seems to be no longer live, so the text is recovered from this blog and photos from Wylie’s book are reproduced here.) “The Maze” by Seamus Sweeney Nth Position…
Without the knocking at the door, everything would be so different that at times he was afraid to think of it, and he consoled himself with the notion that perhaps…
Reading F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up I came across a reference to a William Seabrook: William Seabrook in an unsympathetic book tells, with some pride and a movie ending, of…
Brittasdryland (Bhriotás an Drílinnigh) – “Briotás” a borrowing from Anglo-French “bretesche”, wooden stronghold from “big oak tree” (see here and here) and “Dreeling” Lousybush (Sceach na Míol): And my favourite, Mortgagefields which sounds…
Originally posted on Leaves & Pages:
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ~ 1967. This edition: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1977. Softcover. ISBN: 0-7720-0617-2. 138 pages. My…
It is World Listening Day. I am a bit leery of too many confected “Days” However, anything that encourages listening is itself to be encouraged. From the World Listening Project…
The Glamour of the West seems to be part of a series by D L Kelleher, following on from The Glamour of Dublin and The Glamour of Cork. Kelleher is an obscure figure now.…
Lately I’ve been rereading psychology books, and have felt singularly defrauded. All of them discuss the mechanisms of dreams or the subjects of dreams, but they do not mention, as…
Séamus Sweeney 