“Teach us to care and not to care/ Teach us to sit still.” Ash Wednesday
An Ash Wednesday I’ll Never Forget: Chesterton did not actually say that those of us who don’t believe in God will believe in anything, but he ought to have because…
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Stained Glass from Church of the Visitation, Cloneen, Tipperary
Cloneen has a Sports and Social Hall and a National School, but not a Wikipedia page. It also has a small, externally fairly ordinary-looking church with some wonderful stained glass. Of all…
Betty Corrigall
From First Known When Lost Betty Corrigall lived on the island of Hoy in Orkney in the 18th century. When she was in her late twenties, she was abandoned by her…
Matthews Oates on butterfly watching, from “In Pursuit of Butterflies”
Butterflying, and Emperoring in particular, does not entail hours of walking, but eternities of standing about, watching and waiting. Patience is everything, and those of us who have spent our…
Stained Glass from Church of St John The Baptist, Kilcash, Tipperary
Following my post on the Stained Glass of Augustinian Priory, Fethard here is more stained glass from Tipperary. I am not especially proficient at photography and this was taken in something…
Ernest P. Walker’s dedication “Walker’s Mammals of the World”
To the MAMMALS, GREAT AND SMALL, who contribute so much to the welfare and happiness of man, another mammal, but receive so little in return, except blame, abuse, and extermination.
2008: “How technical should dictionaries get in their definitions?”
Further continuing my rather self-indulgent nostalgia trip, here is a post I had entirely forgotten from 2008: A chap called Ammon Shea has written a a very funny sounding book about…
Séamus Sweeney 