Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
Not sure what has moved me to resurrect this old post, but here are two letters I sent to the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism from May 2010 and then May 2014 on…
Joachim Rønneberg has died. He was the last living link with the heroics of the Norwegian resistance’s sabotage of the Nazi driver for the atomic bomb, via infiltration of the…
Ok, I have been quite sporadic posting about Inktober. Here are my posts so far: #Inktober2018 Day 1: “Poisonous” #inktober2018 Day 2 – “Tranquil” #Inktober2018 Day 3 – #roasted #Inktober2018 Day 9…
I have been keeping up with Inktober, but for various reasons not as assiduously as last year. Perhaps it isn’t as novel, perhaps I am more critical of my own drawing skills,…
One day in March (I think) 2007 I was walking along the beach at Magheraroarty when I came across a large crowd watching two diggers preparing a sandy grave for…
#Inktober continues and today’s prompt is “Tranquil”. Here is a selection of tweets with pictures on the theme: Inktober Day 2.- Tranquil#inktober #Inktober2018 pic.twitter.com/aCxSLVROAB — 🎃Saulol Sandoval🎃 (@Saulol_Sandoval) October 2,…
This is not the first time this has happened. Nevertheless it is eerie to walk beside a dried-up river, especially one that at other times is prone to flooding. Evidently…
The common understanding of “extinct” is, well, “no longer existing as a species.” So therefore most people may think “extinct in Ireland” means “never found in Ireland.” Looking into the…
Séamus Sweeney 