Skip to content Menu

Séamus Sweeney

Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda

Sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Extinct in Ireland
  • On Silence
  • Rogues

Tag: sound

Posted on May 15, 2019May 15, 2019

David Owen in the New Yorker on Noise Pollution

There’s an interesting and somewhat maddening story by David Owen in the current New Yorker on noise and health (both human and animal). Interesting because, well this is something I…

Continue Reading
Posted on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019

David Monacchi: “Fragments of Extinction”, the sounds of vanishing nature

With the prospect of mass extinction in the news, it seems a good time to reflect on the loss of soundscapes. In Ireland, the corncrake and the curlew were once…

Continue Reading
Posted on October 4, 2018October 5, 2018

Sinister Espie

Contains elements of “Lightsick”, Zola Jesus.

Continue Reading
Posted on September 4, 2018September 3, 2018

Happy St Cuthbert’s Day with Chris Watson

Today is St Cuthbert’s Day. I must admit he wasn’t a saint I’d heard of before coming across Chris Watson’s work.  Watson has had an interesting and highly varied career. Formerly…

Continue Reading
Posted on April 17, 2018May 20, 2018

“Silence is not the contrary of the Word but its guardian”

From “Lieber’s Lament”, Chapter 6, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H., George Steiner: As it is written in the learned Nathaniel of Mainz: there shall come upon the earth…

Continue Reading
Posted on April 6, 2018

The sound of night – from R Murray Schafer’s “Soundscapes”

“In the special darkness of the northern winter, where life was centered in small pools of candlelight, beyond which shadows draped and flickered mysteriously, the mind explored the dark side…

Continue Reading
Posted on March 24, 2018

From “The State”, a short story by Tommy Orange

From The New Yorker, drawn from Orange’s forthcoming novel There There Before you were born, you were a head and a tail in a milky pool—a swimmer. You were a…

Continue Reading
Posted on March 2, 2018

“The silent are never at home in our culture again”

Adam DeVille has a fascinating pair of posts (one here, one here) on Maggie Ross‘ Silence: A User’s Guide. Both posts are worth reading in full (and I must now…

Continue Reading

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next Page
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
Top

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Palm Sunday thoughts from a City Priest
  • (no title)
  • Seamus at Herge museum 20.06.19
  • (no title)
  • University observer

Top Posts & Pages

  • "worth seeing yes, but not worth going to see": An article on Samuel Johnson and Ireland, written for the Johnson Tercentenary in 2009
  • "Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio" - plainchant setting of Prayer to St Michael the Archangel from Heiligenkreuz Abbey
  • Meáchan Rudaí/ The Shape of Things a poem by Liam Ó Muirthile set to music by The Gloaming
  • "The Best Lack All Conviction, while the Worst / Are Full Of Passionate Intensity"
  • I have been using "cf." wrongly for my entire life
  • About
  • "Have yourself a merry little Christmas..." - the execution scene from "The Victors" (1963)
  • "This is the avocado game"
  • "Léim isteach sa ngluaistean / Níl deifir orainn a bheith ann / Lig do scíth go hiomlán" = "I'll be riding shotgun / Underneath the warm sun / Feeling like a someone"
  • "mar nach mbeidh ‘chuile mháthair mar sin lena mac féin?" #MarianMay - "Caoineadh Na Tri Mhuire" (The Lament of the Three Marys) , Joe Heaney

Posts from “A Medical Education” (sister blog of medical writing): A Medical Education

Underwear that counts steps, tracks calories, monitors sleep? Count me in!

Medical watches

Utako Okamoto 1st April 1918 – 21st April 2016

Core Emergency Medicine Podcast on V Fib and Pulseless V Tachy

Give TXA now!

Follow Séamus Sweeney on WordPress.com

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets
Séamus Sweeney
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Séamus Sweeney
    • Join 627 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Séamus Sweeney
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...