“Drunker than nine hundred dollars”
Recently I’ve been reading “The Filthy Thirteen: From the Dustbowl to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest – The True Story of the 101st Airborne’s Most Legendary Squad of Combat Paratroopers” by Jake…
From Heiton Buckley : the Top 8 Native Irish Plants That You Really Should Know
From the perhaps not entirely expected source of the website of Heiton Buckley builders’ providers, here is a rather humbling test of knowledge of native Irish planets. Below is the…
The perils of quoting out of context
The Samuel Johnson Soundbite Page is a trove of quotable bits from the Great Cham himself. I came across this post on the perils of taking quotes from Johnson’s Rasselas…
Red Sky on the Black Isle: a short film about raptors by Alison Marley
From film maker Alison Marley, here’s a short film about raptor persecution – a visually beautiful look at a less than beautiful subject:
“Being in space is like a child’s dream with adult problems” : We Need To Talk About Cosmos, a short film by Raphaël Bluzet
A charming, witty short film on astronaut life by Raphaël Bluzet well worth three and a bit minutes of your life.
Padre Pio statue, Dominican Friary, Limerick
A little difficult to see in this photo, on the other side of the confessional from Padre Pio we see a relief of Christ: A rather difficult to see plaque…
“Cloth of Gold” vestments, Medieval Museum Waterford
Over 550 years old, the survival of these vestments (which were concealed to save them from Oliver Cromwell, and were missing for over 120 years) is amazing in itself – what…
“Tetris” theme played on organ of St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule by Rónán Murray
The title says it all….though the piece is more properly called Korobeiniki
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