“Shopping Centre” – a poem from September 2007
Came across this rather randomly lately, will leave it as is, with its hilariously unsubtle allusions to this and that intact, as a memorial of pre-bust Ireland: Shopping Centre. Time…
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This Be The Best
In 2013 I entered this in one of the Spectator’s poetry competitions, if memory serves a version of a well-known poem endeavouring to convey the precisely opposite message. With apologies…
The man who rode zebras: Lionel Walter Rothschild
Here’s an extraordinary character, Lionel Walter Rothschildfrom the Nigeness blog a few years back: Lately I’ve been browsing in the biographies [of The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors]…
Geoffrey Langlands RIP: major, Dieppe Raid survivor, educationalist, 97 year old coup leader
I had never heard of Geoffrey Langlands, who has died in Lahore aged 101, until coming across his death on Wikipedia’s Recent Deaths page. His Wikipedia page has been subjected to a…
Review of Robert Pogue Harrison’s “Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition”, Nthposition 2009
Another review of mine from the departed nthposition.com. I quite enjoyed this from Robert Pogue Harrison. And I am now even further along my immersion in the “dull adult world”, ten…
Antoinette Slovik
Earlier today I posted a scene from “The Victors” based on the execution of Eddie Slovik, the only US soldier shot for desertion in World War II. A detail in the…
Knockroe Passage Tomb December 21st winter solstice observances
Knockroe Passage Tomb near Windgap in County Kilkenny was only rediscovered during the 1980s. Like Newgrange, the dawn light on the Winter solstice aligns with the structure, but unlike Newgrange so…
Architectural urban myths: mixing up the plans in Dungannon and Enniscorthy
Reading the Wikipedia page on Dungannon, Co Tyrone I came across this: An interesting feature of the town is the former police barracks at the top right-hand corner of the market square…
Séamus Sweeney 