“The Best Lack All Conviction, while the Worst / Are Full Of Passionate Intensity”
According to this article from August 2016, lines from Yeats’ The Second Coming were quoted more often in the first seven months of 2016 than in any of the prior…
Crusader tomb, St Patrick’s Church, Marlfield, Clonmel
The medieval grave-slab to the church interior and that in the graveyard wall, the latter thought locally to be from a crusader’s grave, adds archaeological and historical interest to the…
“salvation would be easier for the clever and leisured than for the dull and busy”
From “Confessions of a Convert”. R H Benson: It had been put to me by my Superior that I was surely incurring the guilt of pride in venturing to set…
February, Cheesemount, Tipperary
Winter seems a long time ago in summer, summer seems a long time away in winter.
Cahir’s memorial to Crimean Bob, “a veteran troophorse”
This plaque is on display in the main square of Cahir, Co Tipperary: This article outlines the story of Crimean Bob and other Irish animals of the Crimean War. A…
First Conversation, “The Practice of the Presence of God”, Brother Lawrence
More on this book. The first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the third of August, in the year 1666. He told me God had done him a great…
Killamery High Cross
Some photos from Killamery, Co Kilkenny, of the well known high cross. Of the same family – the Ossory Group – as Ahenny High Crosses and Kilkieran, this features the distinctive tented…
May 10th 1943 – the Ballymanus Mining Disaster
I previously posted this poem on the Ballymanus Mine Disaster, which happened on this date in 1943. My great-uncle died in this disaster, one of the neglected tragedies of World…
Séamus Sweeney 