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Extinct in Ireland continues! From Padraic Fogarty’s “Whittled Away” Wolf: Widespread and probably abundant in Ireland until a concerted extermination programme finished off the last one in the late 1700s. I…
I’ve been reading Pádraic Fogarty’s “Whittled Away: Ireland’s Vanishing Nature”. It’s a sobering read, puncturing the fond illusion that many Irish have that their homeland is some kind of environmental paradise,…
At Eastern Christian Books, Adam deVille has a long post which brings together a number of themes he has explored on the blog and elsewhere – on lament, on Marx…
“All are drawn unwittingly into the structure of violent reciprocity -which they always think they are outside of- because they all initially come from the outside and mistake this positional…
Originally posted on The As It Ought to Be Archive:
MURMUR by Rhiannon Conley “Did You Know? You can swim through the aorta of a blue whale.” I watched as…
Following on from yesterday’s post, here is the answer from Roy Sorenson’s Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: “The elderly scientist is certainly correct. The reason is that any assertion of an…
Through the First Antarctic Night”, or to give it’s full title, “Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899: A Narrative of the Voyage of the Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands and…
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
I came across the paper described in this piece in a book on the pictorial world of children. I also emailed one of the…
Séamus Sweeney 