Stained Glass from St Peter’s Church, Phibsboro
Something of a geographical shift from prior posts on Tipperary stained glass, here are some.images of the wonderful stained glass of St Peter’s Church, Phibsboro
New York songs: Liza Minnelli, Carey Mulligan, Lou Reed, The Clash, Lang Lang
New York has been much celebrated in song. In recent years, these songs have tended towards the unpleasantly grandiose; New York as an arena of near-unlimited personal fulfillment and narcissistic…
George Steiner on music (from “Real Presences”)
The meanings of the meaning of music transcend. It has long been, and continues to be, the unwritten theology of those who lack or reject any formal creed. Or to…
George Steiner on secondary culture in 1989
Each day, via journalism, via the journalistic-academic, the inherent value, the productive powers the savings embodied in a creative currency, this is the say in the vitality of the aesthetic,…
Review of “Japanese Rules: Why the Japanese needed football and how they got it” by Sebastian Moffett. UCD AFC programme 2003
Archived here (and now here). I have observed before that I formerly wrote much more on sport than I do now… or am interested in now. Looking at this piece now, it seems…
“Teach us to care and not to care/ Teach us to sit still.” Ash Wednesday
An Ash Wednesday I’ll Never Forget: Chesterton did not actually say that those of us who don’t believe in God will believe in anything, but he ought to have because…
Stained Glass from Church of the Visitation, Cloneen, Tipperary
Cloneen has a Sports and Social Hall and a National School, but not a Wikipedia page. It also has a small, externally fairly ordinary-looking church with some wonderful stained glass. Of all…
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