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Posted on August 19, 2019

Biblical advertisting: Proverbs 11:1 in Bunbeg

In Bunbeg, Co. Donegal (officially the smallest fishing harbour in Ireland), one sees the following written in old Gaelic script (note the “overdot” or ponc séimhithe used to indicate a…

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Posted on December 18, 2018

From Lee Watkins’s blog – Henry Miller’s Christmas

One of the nice things about growing older is that you lose some of the inhibitions about admitting you haven’t read a particular writer. One of the less nice things…

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Posted on September 8, 2017September 8, 2017

Harry Clarke: The Master of Stained Glass — A R T L▼R K post

Given how much I have been featuring Harry Clarke work (see also here and here and Harry Clarke Studio alumni here) I thought it might be nice to share this…

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Posted on April 29, 2017May 6, 2017

“a world that seeks only varieties of comfort and metaphysical appeasement.”

From the April 21 TLS, a review by Cynthia Haven of Andrezj Franaszek’s Czeslaw Miłosz biography and Miłosz’s own previously unpublished science fiction novel “The Mountains of Parnassus”: At one shattering…

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