Irish Papist

For Poetry Tuesday, here is a poem which would be somewhat well-known in Ireland, but (I imagine) completely unknown elsewhere. Padraig O...

Occasional visitors to this blog may be baffled when they encounter some random picture of Dirk Benedict. Regular readers will be used to it...

I am going to try to make a bigger effort to put out regular YouTube videos. Here is my latest.

For Poetry Tuesday (a tradition I am determined to keep going), here is the poem I read on the day of my father's funeral. (The pict...

Yesterday my father died, peacefully, surrounded by family and friends, at the age of seventy-nine. I wrote this post about him several y...

I enjoyed writing this post on the Irish Conservatives Forum, and thought it possible some of my readers might enjoy reading it. In another ...

In post after post on this blog, I find myself seeking to convey some enthusiasm or other, usually some private and idiosyncratic enthusi...