Review of “Slaves Revolts in Antiquity”, Theresa Urbainczyk
I recall, rather dimly, writing this for the newsletter of the Classical Association of Ireland. Even more dimly, I think it was published but I am not really sure… Modern…
Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
I recall, rather dimly, writing this for the newsletter of the Classical Association of Ireland. Even more dimly, I think it was published but I am not really sure… Modern…
Not sure how many people care but here are the Choral March selections of, um, choral music in playlist form..
On this day in 1915 Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil was first performed. Back in 2013, I conceived of a grandiose plan that performances of this piece could be held contemporaneously…
This ChoralMarch series probably wouldn’t exist were it not for Desmond Earley and the UCD Choral Scholars. A few years back they released a CD of choral works from Ireland…
From Wikipedia: Scheuchzeria palustris (Rannoch-rush,[2] or pod grass), is a flowering plant in the family Scheuchzeriaceae, in which there is only one species and Scheuchzeria is the only genus. In…
The autum 2018 issue of Wings, the magazine of BirdWatch Ireland, has a piece on the avifauna of University College Dublin‘s Belfield campus. For those unfamiliar this is in the…
I recently started this book by UCD Lecturer Annette U Flynn. Her biography is worth noting and outlines a winding if not forking path into academia: I grew up…
Archived here (and now here). I have observed before that I formerly wrote much more on sport than I do now… or am interested in now. Looking at this piece now, it seems…