Doon Mass Rock, Doon, Co. Donegal.
While the Holy Well and the rock where the O’Donnell chieftain was inaugurated are better known, the site near Termon in Donegal features a well–preserved Mass Rock. These photos capture it from…
“The Driver”, winner of Molly Keane Memorial Creative Writing Award 2010
It was a privilege to receive this award in 2010 in Lismore, via the auspices of Waterford County Council, and to hear the kind words from Molly Keane’s daughter at…
The Commons – Ballingarry Famine Walk , 28th July 2018
A little while ago I blogged that Choctaw artist/writer Waylon Gary White Deer was to lead a Famine Walk on the 28th July Well, today was the 28th July, so…
A resting blessing from the Carmina Gadelica
From Alexander Carmichael’s collection of the Scottish oral tradition Carmina Gadelica , a resting blessing AN ainm an Tighearn Iosa, Agus Spiorad ìocshlain aigh, An ainm Athar Israil, Sinim sios…
The Waxwing Slain – short story from Nthposition.com, 2004
This was the first story I had published on the now defunct nthposition.com. It owes a little too much to a certain J G Ballard story, but re-reading it…
The Boy Who Never Saw Pictures – The Dabbler Blog, May 2014
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
I came across the paper described in this piece in a book on the pictorial world of children. I also emailed one of the…
Review of An Odd Kind Of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage. Nthposition. Mid-2004
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
This piece is no longer actively on nthposition. Fortunately I had previously preserved a copy on a precursor of this blog, with an entertaining typo in the heading.…
Review of “Guys and Dolls” from StompTokyo.com 1999/2000-ish
While the website Stomp Tokyo still exists, this particular review is on it no more…and I am not sure how well it fitted with Stomp Tokyo’s overall aesthetic of “B-movies, Godzilla…
