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Posted on September 28, 2018

#AnimalsinChurches: Birds in stained glass window, SS Peter and Paul, Clonmel

The #AnimalsInChurches tag leads one into a fabulous world of, well, animals in Churches. Or more specifically (or at least usually) animals in stained glass or statuary in Churches. Here is an…

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Posted on November 4, 2017November 4, 2017

#Inktober 2017 – The Art of Susan Alman

20. Deep#inktober #inktober2017 #humpbackwhale pic.twitter.com/uPDFYolrG3 — Susan Alman (@Dolphiana) October 20, 2017 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js “One of the joys of Inktober was discovering illustrators of unique, strongly personal vision. One such is…

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Posted on November 27, 2016November 27, 2016

The antithesis of anthropomorphism: Tarka the Otter

I have written here before on anthropomorphism, following John Lewis-Stempel’s musings as to whether it is such a dread conceptual offence as it often stated. Recently I read Henry Williamson’s “Tarka…

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Posted on August 30, 2015August 30, 2015

Review of Wolves in Ireland by Kieran Hickey, TLS, April 2012.

Going through my writings, I realise how little deals with something of great personal importance to me; nature and the natural world. Of course, semantic quibbling teaches us that “nature”…

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