Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
I keep coming back to this post by DeForest London – “A Way Out of Burnout: Cultivating Differentiated Leadership Through Lament”. I originally reposted it on my other blog, A…
It’s been a while since I posted a fiction update – Jan 2017 to be precise. The one before that was two years ago. Alas, the pattern of outlets I…
Cahir has a number of memorials; previously I featured the memorial to Crimean Bob, “a veteran troophorse.” There is also the memorial to the Blind Piper, Edward Keating Hyland In…
Justly awarded multiple “best storefront” prizes in Cahir, Liam Wall’s is a gent’s hairdresser without pretension or compromise. The signage reflects this. This sign is actually on the alley just…
From Pádraic Fogarty’s Whittled Away: Spotted crake Probably common up to the mid-nineteenth century, there was a record of them breeding on the once extensive marshes around Dundalk, Co. Louth,…
From Pádraic Fogarty’s Whittled Away: Osprey Breeding in inland lakes including Lough Key in Roscommon in 1779 but no records thereafter, save for the odd vagrant. Given its relatively abundant…
A recurrent pattern in the history of ideas is a dominant narrative creating dichotomies that, at the time, did not exist. I have blogged about these before – false tension…
I previously posted an extract from Alasdair McIntyre’s After Virtue on “hesuchia” – the rest that follows striving. I came across this from Henri Nouwen’s The Way of the Heart…
Séamus Sweeney 