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Posted on August 4, 2019

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…

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Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019

#ChoralMarch – the playlist

Not sure how many people care but here are the Choral March selections of, um, choral music in playlist form..

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Posted on March 15, 2019March 10, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 15th: “Bogoroditse Devo” from All Night Vigil, Sergei Rachmaninov performed by St Petersburg Chamber Choir

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…

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Posted on March 10, 2019March 9, 2019

#ChoralMarch – March 10th “Mó Ghile Mhear” (arranged Desmond Earley), UCD Choral Scholars

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…

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Posted on September 24, 2018September 22, 2018

Extinct in Ireland, September 24th- Rannoch rush (Scheuchzeria pallustris) and the life of John Moore

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…

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Posted on August 16, 2018August 16, 2018

Corncrake in UCD 1982

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…

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Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

From “Quest for God in the Work of Borges”, Annette U. Flynn

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…

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Posted on March 5, 2017March 5, 2017

Review of “Japanese Rules: Why the Japanese needed football and how they got it” by Sebastian Moffett. UCD AFC programme 2003

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…

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