Extinct in Ireland, September 13th – Lapidary snail, Heligonica lapicida
Included in Red List No. 2, Non Marine Molluscs as extinct, albeit perhaps in this case its presence in Ireland in the first is debated: Known in Ireland only from limestone…
“The Forgotten Beasts in Medieval Britain: a study of extinct fauna in medieval sources” Ph.D thesis by Lee Raye
Over the course of my September posts on extinct species in Ireland, the importance of archaeology and literary scholarship in determining which species have been extant in Ireland is striking.…
Extinct in Ireland September 12th – Spiral Chalk Moss (Pterygoneurum lamellatum)
Moving from yesterday’s flower, the meadow saxifrage, to a moss species no longer found in Ireland. The demise of “mud capped stone walls”, as outlined below, is another example of…
Joseph Haydn’s “Horseman” string quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3
[ youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8rdK0XpJoA&w=560&h=315%5D According to Misha Donat’s notes for the Saloman Quarter release of this quartet: The most famous among Haydn’s six quartets of 1793 is the last, in G…
“The most prosaic man becomes a poem when you stand by his grave at his funeral and think of him.”
I came across the above quote from Thomas Hardy’s notebooks via the latest post on Stephen Pentz’s blog First Known When Lost Pentz highlights a poem by F T Prince…
The gannet photos of Richard Shucksmith
As always, the Bird Photographer of the Year competition has produced a crop of stunning images. The most striking of which for me was one of a familiar bird, the…
Extinct in Ireland, September 11th. Meadow Saxifrage
I began this exploration of species extinct in Ireland with a fish, the sturgeon., have moved through mammals and insects, but only now am moving to plants. And predictably enough…
Extinct in Ireland, September 10th, the Great Auk
For the first time in this September’s series on species extinct in Ireland, here is a species extinct not only in Ireland (or Irish waters) but the world. Again, from Whittled…
Séamus Sweeney 