Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
On St Patrick’s Day 2005 this piece appeared on the SAU Blog. It is somewhat in the spirit of my grumpy thoughts on book clubs from 2006 in the same…
I have posted photos of Glencomeragh in February and photos of Glencomeragh in August. Glencomeragh was a Rosminian retreat centre near Kilsheelan (which is in Tipperary, but Glencomeragh is across the Suir…
Around the time I wrote this I was partial to insider accounts of film-making, and was favourably impressed with the sheer amount of time wasting this seemed to involve. I…
On Bastille Day 2005 this piece appeared on the Social Affairs Unit blog. The only chance, so far, I have had to deploy Frangere dum metuis, franges crystallina, peccant / Securae nimium solicitaeque…
The autum 2018 issue of Wings, the magazine of BirdWatch Ireland, has a piece on the avifauna of University College Dublin‘s Belfield campus. For those unfamiliar this is in the…
From The Nationalist (current edition): Close up on the story itself: Close up on record holder Tommy Noonan: Close up on the man with the 20 euro:
Via Ireland’s Wildlife: A new research project at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) in partnership with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is looking for public input…
As this page points out, faith communities tend to own and manage considerable land (also quite spread out round the country). It is good to see this kind of outreach…
Séamus Sweeney 