Irish Papist

"Snow was general all over Ireland..." Well, it's falling softly, and indeed softly falling, all over the east of the cou...

As I've mentioned already, I've been in an archival mood recently. I've been organising my physical archive of publications and ...

Here's another gem (or so I'd like to think) from my archives. This is a book review I had published in the library newsletter, som...

I've been in archival mode for the last week or so. First I put my physical archive in order, now I've turned to my digital archive...

An historical claim that never fails to annoy me is that nobody cared about the countryside, or about "nature", or about wildernes...

Another poem from my archives. Most of the poetry I wrote at this time is dismal, but this one is not too bad, although the final line owes ...

I've been rearranging my personal archives (an activity I enjoy very much). In my "Pre-Millennial Poems" folder, I came across...