“The Blind Leading The Blind”, Sebastiaen Vrancx
The Blind Leading The Blind Sebastiaen Vrancx c. 1620, Private Collection
Category: time passes
Extinct in Ireland, September 5th, the Barberry Carpet Moth – last seen in Clonmel!
Continuing a month of postings on species extinct in Ireland since the coming of humans, the first insect of this series and a moth last found in Clonmel – the barberry…
“Mankind must join a sort of resistance movement. What will become of our world if it does not look for intervals of silence?”
From “The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise” by Robert Cardinal Sarah, Nicolas Diat: Mankind must join a sort of resistance movement. What will become of our…
St Helen’s Day – stained glass and true cross relic from Church of St Gilles, Mallièvre
It is St Helen’s day, commemorating the mother of the Emperor Constantine whose mission to recover the cross on which Christ was killed inspired Evelyn Waugh’s Helena. Recent I visited…
Review of “Long Live Latin: A Latin Miscellany” -John M Gray, SAU Blog, 14th July 2005
On Bastille Day 2005 this piece appeared on the Social Affairs Unit blog. The only chance, so far, I have had to deploy Frangere dum metuis, franges crystallina, peccant / Securae nimium solicitaeque…
Corncrake in UCD 1982
The autum 2018 issue of Wings, the magazine of BirdWatch Ireland, has a piece on the avifauna of University College Dublin‘s Belfield campus. For those unfamiliar this is in the…
Let’s Get Sophisticated! #SophistiPop Old and New …. with Bryan Ferry, ABC, Michael Franks, Destroyer, Red Box, Aztec Camera, Marshall Crenshaw and the Style Council
“Sophisti-Pop” is a subgenre of pop that takes musical elements from jazz, MOR, synthpop and what could be best called easy listening, and mixes them with a more literary-than-visceral, slightly…
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