Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space.
Joyce, Ulysses
Happy Bloomsday
Living furniture #GrandfatherClock
Encrypted’ #ATugOfBlue #poetry
“...the steep rise of technology really does change so much culturally and socially, there’s this value of handwritten communication, which is kind of how we have history.”
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The first translation of Dirty Linen, into Polish by Maciej Studencki, is published in August by Luneta. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
John McGahern's World
"The deliberate blurring of inside and outside is central to McGahern’s vision, the writer at once being absorbed in his surroundings and yet stepping back to articulate what goes without saying on the daily round."
By Luke Gibbons #DublinReviewOfBooks
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'Selling one’s soul and saving it' by Raymond Geuss, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
Essay in the latest Dublin Review of Books #EthicalQuestions
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Fewer sleeps now! My website has been updated. Some #haiku sequences from ‘Wishing Tree Note’ are in there now, along with a facility to order copies. Also other work (poems, haibun, essays & features), plus some info on my workshops and mentoring. Why don’t you swing by? www.maeveosullivan.com
The American author’s epistolary debut, about a witty, letter-loving woman in her seventies, has inspired readers across the world to pick up a pen
Raymond Geuss writes: Marx is generally considered to be a thinker who had little time for the spiritual dimension of human life. This is correct if the spiritual life is understood as depending on re...