Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
A while ago there seemed to be a vogue for rather pompously titled (albeit often quite entertaining) books on various drinks / foods / animals / trees / whatever that…
Sadly, the choreographer and filmmaker Jo Andres has died . Here is her (as of this writing) Wikipedia bio: Jo Andres (born 1953 — died January 2019) was an American filmmaker, choreographer and artist. Andres first…
Going through old emails, I came across this. It was written for History Ireland magazine who accepted it… but I don’t think it ever appeared. One for the 310th anniversary…
Came across this rather randomly lately, will leave it as is, with its hilariously unsubtle allusions to this and that intact, as a memorial of pre-bust Ireland: Shopping Centre. Time…
In 2013 I entered this in one of the Spectator’s poetry competitions, if memory serves a version of a well-known poem endeavouring to convey the precisely opposite message. With apologies…
Here’s an extraordinary character, Lionel Walter Rothschildfrom the Nigeness blog a few years back: Lately I’ve been browsing in the biographies [of The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors]…
While I am partial to a a bit of Amis, Kingsley, when it comes to Amis, Martin I have never quite found it to “take”, so to speak. I came…
I’ve posted quite a few bits from John Wright’s wonderful “The Naming of the Shrew” . Quite a few, in fact. It is quite the treasure trove of entertaining and informative material. I have taken…
Séamus Sweeney 