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Posted on January 28, 2017September 10, 2017

Stained Glass from Church of St John The Baptist, Kilcash, Tipperary

Following my post on the  Stained Glass of Augustinian Priory, Fethard here is more stained glass from Tipperary. I am not especially proficient at photography and this was taken in something…

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Posted on January 28, 2017

Ernest P. Walker’s dedication “Walker’s Mammals of the World”

To the MAMMALS, GREAT AND SMALL, who contribute so much to the welfare and happiness of man, another mammal, but receive so little in return, except blame, abuse, and extermination.

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Posted on January 25, 2017

2008: “How technical should dictionaries get in their definitions?”

Further continuing my rather self-indulgent nostalgia trip, here is a post I had entirely forgotten from 2008: A chap called Ammon Shea has written a a very funny sounding book about…

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Posted on January 25, 2017

2008: “Driving in my car” -Clive Thompson on erasing traffic jams

Having recently rediscovered my postings on the Stirling Behavourial Science Blog, I am finding some interesting (well, to me anyway) posts I wrote and totally forgot. Such as this: Clive…

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Posted on January 25, 2017January 25, 2017

Ancient Slavery in Modern Fiction and longterm health impacts

Originally posted on A Medical Education:
This is a post I wrote on the Economics, Psychology, Policy blog, which I got involved with via rather tangential links with  the UCD…

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Posted on January 25, 2017

From “The Mark of the Horse Lord”, Rosemary Sutcliff

At first he had been wild with loathing of his new life, but in four years it had become part of him, so that whether he hated or loved it…

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Posted on January 21, 2017November 19, 2018

Stained Glass of Augustinian Priory, Fethard

(edit 19th November 2018 – I realised lately that the Our Lady of Fatima window is not “by Harry Clarke” but “by Harry Clarke Studios. Apologies for the error. I…

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Posted on January 20, 2017January 20, 2017

From “The Spire”, William Golding

So he sat, watching the armies of sparks that wandered through the fire. He spoke sometimes, but not to Father Adam. ‘Yet it still stands.’ Then he moaned and rocked…

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