#Inktober2018 day 12 – #whale
Ok, I have been quite sporadic posting about Inktober. Here are my posts so far: #Inktober2018 Day 1: “Poisonous” #inktober2018 Day 2 – “Tranquil” #Inktober2018 Day 3 – #roasted #Inktober2018 Day 9…
Tag: whales
A Whale Burial in Magheraroarty, Donegal, March 2007
One day in March (I think) 2007 I was walking along the beach at Magheraroarty when I came across a large crowd watching two diggers preparing a sandy grave for…
Extinct in Ireland, September 23rd, the North Atlantic right whale
Pádraic Fogarty lists the North Atlantic right whale or Nordcapper (also known as the Northern Right Whale) as one of the mammals extinct in Ireland since human habitation here: Regularly…
“The Forgotten Beasts in Medieval Britain: a study of extinct fauna in medieval sources” Ph.D thesis by Lee Raye
Over the course of my September posts on extinct species in Ireland, the importance of archaeology and literary scholarship in determining which species have been extant in Ireland is striking.…
On Silence
Following on my page on Rogues, I have decided to create another page compiling my various posts on silence. Silence comes into a lot of my posts, sometimes obliquely, sometimes less…
#OceanOptimism & the psychology of powerlessness and hope from current BBC Wildlife Magazine
The current issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine has a fascinating cover story by Elin Kelsey on hope and optimism versus despair in how we think and act about the environment. Essentially, much…
Another note on whales and silence from Tim Severin
I blogged this paragraph from The Brendan Voyage – but here is something rather different from In Search of Moby Dick: “Not everything matched the old whaling lore. I was startled…
A note on whales and silence from The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
“But on the voyage itself none of Brendan’s crew guessed what was about to happen, not even Trondur, who had a great deal of experience of whales and whale-catching. Day after…
Séamus Sweeney 