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As part of the Starter’s Orders project, the Hotel Minella in Clonmel is hosting “Whispered Courage”, a strikingly coloural equine statue by Sarah Lennon, a self-taught artist from Dublin whose…
My friend Johnny Ryan of Brave recently testified to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee (Chair, Lindsay Graham) as part of their session on “Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem and…
Recently I came across the striking St-Martin de Martigny-Courpierre in the Aisne, not far from the Belgian border. Here is the striking exterior: This didn’t fully prepare for the interior.…
I endorse Allan Massie’s verdict on Chesterton as a pungent, brilliant essayist occasionally lapsing into tedium through overwrought prose. Here is one of his passages of pellucid power, from The…
A while back I featured Helen Andrews’ superb “Shame Storm” which drew on her own experience of online mobbing to look at the wider phenomenon. She has a new piece…
“Alone” By Edgar Allan Poe From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring—…
I have posted the climactic scene of Poulenc’s opera, “Dialogues of the Carmelites”, not once but twice Today, three days after Bastille Day, is the feast day of the Martyrs…
Wittgenstein’s closing proposition of the Tractatus in musical form:
Séamus Sweeney 