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(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Ana Olgica and Amity Cadet) https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/aoifenichorcorain/playlist/74KqlNzk7NMTChonWbOC75 Continuing from my profiles of the work of Amity Cadet and…
Messing around with WordPress’s “Pages” feature, I have created a page devoted to my posts on “rogues” (broadly defined … probably I should just say “eccentrics”) Anyway, here it is
Full piece here. An interesting interview with Fr Scalia – son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia – here We require that God be as we want Him: big,…
LEARNING HOW TO SEE AGAIN By Josef Pieper (translated by Lothar Krauk) from Only The Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation Man’s ability to see is in decline. Those who…
From “God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love” by Gil Bailie: The Resurrection delivers men from the fear of death,” writes John Meyendorff, “and, therefore, also from the necessity…
The commandment to “honour thy father and thy mother” is one that, one would like to hope, is usually relatively straightforward. Many of us (most of us?) can fairly easily…
In the months before Ecuador I was all about The Uses of Freedom–or Der Gebrauch der Freiheit if you’re German. Late at night I would look at the words of…
This plaque is on display in the main square of Cahir, Co Tipperary: This article outlines the story of Crimean Bob and other Irish animals of the Crimean War. A…
Séamus Sweeney 