Was Charles Hughesdon the last surviving eyewitness of Michael Collins’ funeral?
A few years ago I came across this obituary in the Daily Telegraph. It seems a little parochial to wonder if, in the midst of a busy and incident-packed life,…
Category: time passes
Beshoff’s Chip Shop Founder was Last Survivor of Potemkin Mutiny
From his 1987 New York Times obituary: Ivan Beshoff, the last survivor of the 1905 mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin, a harbinger of the Russian Revolution, died Sunday, his…
Choctaw artist/writer Waylon Gary White Deer to lead Tipperary Famine Walk 28th July 2018
Choctaw artist Waylon Gary White Deer to lead Tipperary Famine Walk in Ballingarry on 28th July. From the Ballingarry Facebook Page: You are invited to this year’s Famine 1848 Walk…
“A sort of oriental yearning for Nirvana” – Miklós Bánffy on doomed Hungarian geniuses
There is a famous anecdote told about Enrico Fermi, when he asked why there was as of yet no evidence of intelligent life from other planets despite the statistical likelihood…
From “A Practical Guide to Time Travel” by Brendan McConnell
From “A Practical Guide to Time Travel” by Brendan McConnell, page 132 … What they don’t tell you about time travel is the emotional dislocation. I suppose my voyage, undertaken…
Everyone loves a rogue
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
“Carbon dioxide should be regarded the same way we view other waste products” – Klaus Lackner and changing minds on carbon
This Elizabeth Kolbert article from the New Yorker on carbon capture is a few months old, but still well worth reading. It is sobering to read how many of the…
The end of the list
Every so often, I would come across a random track on Spotify that I wanted to bookmark, so to speak. I tended to add these to the end of a…
Séamus Sweeney 