Guest Blog: Orchids – Alice Hunter
James Common Orchids hold a fascination for many people around the world. For me that began when a Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) popped up in an unmown area of…
Kilronan medieval church & holy well at Glebe, Co Waterford.
Originally posted on Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland:
A few days ago, I visited one of County Waterford’s hidden treasures, the medieval parish church of Kilronan. I am in the process…
Bird feeding notes late May
Not quite a month after the April update … some miscellaneous thoughts and observations Apples definitely are out of the season for garden birds. Goldfinches have largely disappeared whereas about…
From Preface to “Medieval Technology and Social Change”, Lynn White Jr.
Voltaire to the contrary, history is a bag of tricks which the dead have played upon historians. The most remarkable of these illusions is the belief that the surviving written…
Coots
For some reason I perceived coots as rather timid, retiring birds. Bird guides frequently describe birds as “shy” (or “not shy”, or “not that shy”) and while there is an…
Inherit the Earth (part 2) Nthposition.com, December 2004
Part 1 is here Ten years from now Malcolm and Linda and the ones with no names, the old folk whom they picked up on the road, went down into…
Inherit the Earth (part 1) Nthposition December 2004
Originally published in two sections – “five years from now” and “ten years from now”, Inherit the Earth has it roots in Richard Klein’s Eat Fat, a book which the linked NY…
Our selves, alone. Extract 5 (and final) Nthposition.com 2010
This is the end of the story. Not too sure about the “reveal” at this distance. However of all the stories I have reposted here this is the one I…
Séamus Sweeney 