Stained Glass from Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Newcastle, Co Tipperary

Following recent reflection (possibly navel gazing) and specific reflection on my stained glass related posts, I am trying to be more selective and focused in posting pictures from specific Churches.…

November 21, 2018November 21, 2018

“he was an affectionate husband and tender father, in friendship steady and sincere; to all beneath him courteous, truly just and therefore universally esteemed and beloved. He lived under the influence of religion and died cheerfully supported by it ” – the grave of Jeffry Prendergast, buried in 1713 by his 99 year old father who would live to 111

Readers may note I am partial to the wisdom of gravestones , or even just a striking epitaph. . Trying to find out more about the holy well I came…

November 20, 2018November 27, 2018

?Holy Well, Newcastle, Tipperary

Walking along a bit of the East Munster Way near Newcastle, Co Tipperary, I came across this sign: Beside it stood a wooden stile and this sign which says, basically…

April 6, 2016

Football movies (review of Goal! in SAU blog, September 2005)

Continuing my ressurection of my sport-themed writing, here is another piece from the Social Affairs Unit Blog. Ostensibly a review of Goal! this is really a mini-essay on football movies – I had written…