Irish Papist

"Though you hunt the Christian man like a hare on the hillside, the hare has still more heart to run than you have heart to ride." G.K. Chesterton

Monday, June 22, 2015

In Praise of Solemnity

Monarch of the Glen b y Edwin Landseer Call it pomposity, bombast, what you will; Call it vulgarity, but I crave it still; The ...

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Spam is Great!

Well, maybe not great, but I often feel it has a kind of weird, free-floating, disconnected poetry to it. I get many, many spams comments ev...

Friday, June 19, 2015

The First Chapter of the Black Feather

If you keep something long enough you'll always return to it. The first novel I wrote was a fantasy called The Black Feather. I wrote i...

Wit and Wisdom Site Updated

I've just brought my Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton site up to date, and tried to make it more navigable, with "go to previous ...

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Why I Am a Traditionalist (VII)

As I come to the seventh instalment of this hectically-written series, I feel a sense of fatigue. My fascination with the subject propelled ...

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Why I Am a Traditionalist (VI)

Anyone who's endured through my entire series on tradition so far will have noticed that I've been using the term in a secular sense...

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Why I Am a Traditionalist (V)

I said in a previous instalment of this series that I was goin g to devote a whole post to Christmas. This is it. When it comes to Christm...

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