Francis Lai RIP
Francis Lai, French composer of soundtracks such as A Man And A Woman and Love Story (and, um, Emmanuelle 2) has died. From the Variety Obit: Lai’s plaintive piano melody…
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Joachim Rønneberg RIP
Joachim Rønneberg has died. He was the last living link with the heroics of the Norwegian resistance’s sabotage of the Nazi driver for the atomic bomb, via infiltration of the…
A belated Ave Atque Vale to Mary Mulvihill
Sometimes one suddenly discovers a death one missed some years ago. I love Mary Mulvihill’s Ingenious Ireland. It is currently Out of Print, which perhaps tells its own story, but…
Séamus Sweeney 