Nthposition review of Pieces for the Left Hand, J Robert Lennon, 2005
Now this would be classed as flash fiction , I am not sure if the term existed in 2005 but it didn’t flash (ho ho) into my mind. Another piece from Nthposition.com…
Nthposition review of The Spider’s Web, Joseph Roth
It seems that Nthposition is no more, or hopefully temporarily down (on another note, The Dabbler, which had seemed to have expired, now seems seems to be back) Here is a somewhat…
Further notes on the cultural hegemony of television
I have blogged before on television’s rise, rather than fall, in recent years, to become (seemingly) the dominant cultural force. I am always struck, when logging onto twitter, to see that the…
Bird feeding in Mid March – Greenfinches
Continuing my occasional bird feeding notes – but this time with original pictures! The wonderfully-shot Wild Ireland documentary inspired me to reconsider my childhood dream job – wildlife photographer/cameraman. Why did this…
Murphy Devitt Studios Stained Glass in Chapel of St Anthony, Franciscan Abbey, Clonmel
This installment of the occasional images of stained glass I post, mainly (but not exclusively) from Tipperary, has a little more detail than usual. The last Tipperary post I made…
Yeats on Kipling: “I dislike his works so much that I feel sure it must have something to teach me”
(edit 30th August 2018 – for more on the uneasy relationship between another poet and Yeats, see here. For a TLS letter which also features Kipling (in a perhaps less than…
“People who are not expecting to cry will cry.”
I would not necessarily expected to have found an article on what will happen when Queen Elizabeth II dies as gripping as I did, but Sam Knight’s piece in the Guardian is…
St Patrick on Storify
Originally posted on Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland:
I just put together a storify story of blogposts, tweets associated with St Patrick, his history, folklore and sites associated with the saint.…
Séamus Sweeney 