Torture in Clogheen
From The Nationalist (current edition): Close up on the story itself: Close up on record holder Tommy Noonan: Close up on the man with the 20 euro:
Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
From The Nationalist (current edition): Close up on the story itself: Close up on record holder Tommy Noonan: Close up on the man with the 20 euro:
From “Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time” by Simon Garfield Before sport became a subject for record books, there was just the realisation that humans (upright, no tail)…
Came across an interesting Irishman’s Diary on Lough Neagh by Paul Clements from 2008 . Some highlights: Lough Neagh was famed in the past for its winter floods and many people…
A few years old as photos, but nothing like as old as the works themselves. Chartres was a revelation and well worth the trip (even though the labyrinth was covered…
New York has been much celebrated in song. In recent years, these songs have tended towards the unpleasantly grandiose; New York as an arena of near-unlimited personal fulfillment and narcissistic…
Archived here (and now here). I have observed before that I formerly wrote much more on sport than I do now… or am interested in now. Looking at this piece now, it seems…
Recently my brother gave me a present of Tristan Gooley‘s The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Tracks and Signs. I have read various Gooley books over the years, and to some…
Recently in France I visited two highly recommended tourist sites (I have no issue describing myself by the word “tourist”). One, Montmorillon, is described by English language wikipedia (more of which…