Glen Falls – a poem by Ciaran MacCormaic, Glencomeragh, Co. Waterford
A while back I posted “Be Still”, a poem by Agnes Hunt RHSM which is displayed on a board at the Holy Family Retreat Centre in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford. There…
Category: water
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water”
The Roughly Daily blog links to a piece on an aquarium boom apparently taking place in America. : Aquariums are currently all the rage. Of the forty-one American aquariums accredited…
The water-filled River Clashawley, Fethard, in February
Last September I posted eerie photos of the dried up bed of the Clashawley River at Fethard. As contrast, here are some February photos showing the river in good flow:
Otters of the River Suir
Until a few years ago, otters and badgers were the only members of Ireland’s admittedly not that extensive land mammal fauna which I had not seen (let’s not get into…
1939: A fish is named after John Steinbeck, who behaves rather shabbily in response
Surely 2019 sees no other 80th Anniversary more significant than this one? From “The Naming of the Shrew” by John Wright: Has any taxonomist ever lived to regret…
“he was an affectionate husband and tender father, in friendship steady and sincere; to all beneath him courteous, truly just and therefore universally esteemed and beloved. He lived under the influence of religion and died cheerfully supported by it ” – the grave of Jeffry Prendergast, buried in 1713 by his 99 year old father who would live to 111
Readers may note I am partial to the wisdom of gravestones , or even just a striking epitaph. . Trying to find out more about the holy well I came…
?Holy Well, Newcastle, Tipperary
Walking along a bit of the East Munster Way near Newcastle, Co Tipperary, I came across this sign: Beside it stood a wooden stile and this sign which says, basically…
Trying to do too much – lessons from the Life Study, the Trappists and David Mamet
Here is a post on my other blog “A Medical Education” inspired by a passage in Helen Pearson’s “The Life Project”, which I reviewed in the TLS. An understandable tendency to…
Séamus Sweeney 