Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Before The End

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It is difficult for children to attend a dying relative. The quiet, patient listening does not come easily.The regret returns in adulthood; ...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

We Protect The Innocent, Don't We?

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We protect our children. If there is a risk to innocent lives we do not fire. Collateral damage in war ..........is our consideration for ch...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Contemplating Goya

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                            Plate 36   (referring to plate 36 from THE DISASTERS OF WAR   by Francisco ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Upcoming Events

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Culture Night 2012 is Friday, 21st Septembers. I’m looking forward to reading poems from Above Ground Below Ground at Cruachán Aí Heritage ...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Explaining Our Madness

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A friend, contemplating the various madnesses of humanity during the week, mentioned the irony of governments paying people to save lives an...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

First Film of Amazonian Tribe

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Loggers threaten the existence of uncontacted Amazonian tribes by removing their living resources and space, introducing diseases and...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Gassed

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In 1919 John Singer Sargent completed a large scale oil painting, Gassed. A line of First World War British soldiers, blinded by mustard g...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Emigration - Empty Houses

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An upshot of emigration is the aging of the population, particularly in rural parts. Old farmhouses, their young families gone, used to ...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Arguments can be hallucinogenic.

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  The Blue Man.   There was a man on the white line, middle of the street; clasping his shins, he made a hemisphere to cag...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Places of Literary/Arts Interest in County Roscommon

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Myself and three others have just spent the last two days researching, finding and photographing sites relating to personages of literary/...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Summer Bliss

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I think children gather an appreciation of nature and landscape in a way, and at a rate that is foreign to adults. They don’t appear to dw...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

There Are Stars All Around

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I am sitting on a park bench   with a pool of sunlight almost on my lap;   a cosmos of flies, galaxies in Brownian motion,   fi...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

The Lost Heifer by Austin Clarke

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When the black herds of the rain were grazing, In the gap of the pure cold wind And the watery hazes of the hazel Brought her into my mi...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Natural Light

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Orcadian is a dialect of Scots, spoken on Orkney. Lau means 'natural light' in Orcadian, and Lau is the name of a folk band set u...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Love, Lust or What Else?

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Sex is a complicated working of the mind. An expression of love or possibly hatred, a weapon sometimes, often no more than a pastime, someti...