The St Mary’s medieval parish church, Cahir Co Tipperary
Originally posted on Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland:
Each year thousands of tourist come to to the town of Cahir in Co Tipperary primarily to see the wonderful castle. Cahir Castle…
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Bird feeding mid February
My last “Bird feeding notes”, was from mid November. One of the nice things about bird feeding is the heightened awareness of the passage of the seasons, and how even…
Vampirism as Mental Illness: Myth, Madness and the Loss of Meaning in Psychiatry
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
This is certainly the academic paper I have been involved with which has garnered the most media attention. Brendan Kelly and myself intended to write…
From “LA*HWI*NE*SKI: Career of an Eccentric Naturalist” by John Jeremiah Sullivan
That’s what’s so terrifying but also heroic in Rafinesque, to know he could see that far, function at that outer-orbital a level intellectually, yet still wind up viciously hobbled by…
The inspirational imperative
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
“Inspirational” and its derivatives has replaced “passionate” as a CV-staple. “Inspirational” has also become a clickbait-staple. My Twitter feed seems to sag under the…
Stained Glass of Holycross Abbey, Holycross, Tipperary
Holycross Abbey is one of the best known monastic sites in Ireland, a Cistercian abbey restored between 1970 and 1975. I highly recommend a drive from Thurles to Holycross to Cashel(via…
St Brigid’s Eve Remembered
Originally posted on Darkest Discoveries Donegal:
? ? with kind permission from Irish Newspaper Archive ? RUSH CROSSES IN THE ROSSES The townland of Thorr was mentioned last week as…
Séamus Sweeney 