Happy International Day for Biological Diversity!
The UN, no less, have declared 22nd May to be International Day for Biological Diversity! Normally I am pretty sceptical of these kinds of “official” days for this and that. However, they…
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From Preface to “Medieval Technology and Social Change”, Lynn White Jr.
Voltaire to the contrary, history is a bag of tricks which the dead have played upon historians. The most remarkable of these illusions is the belief that the surviving written…
Our Selves, Alone. Extract 4. Nthposition. 2010
“When society was organised along rational lines, it is surprising how many people were left behind.” That line is striking on re-reading this stories. I am not sure how well my…
The Munition Worker, Elizabeth Shane
I have posted previously from Elizabeth Shane‘s “Tales of the Donegal Coast and Islands” As I posted before, Shane – despite her claim that “Dialect in verse is apt to become…
Bird feeding notes in late April
As posted previously, I have taken an increasing interest in birds and feeding them in the garden. One of the many interesting and (in my view) edifying things about this is another…
Little egrets
In the last few years I have begun to re-engage with birding after a long hiatus. I wouldn’t quite say I lost interest in my teens; more than birding became…
“A Panoply of All Possible Futures” From “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges
Next to the Anthony Burgess quote I previously posted, this is my favourite literary passage on money Sleepless, possessed, almost happy, I reflected that there is nothing less material than…
Putting obscure places on the YouTube map
For a while, I have made artlessly shakey phone videos in a range of obscure, mainly Irish locations, and uploaded them to YouTube. There’s the “jumping church” of Ardee :…
Séamus Sweeney 