Irish Papist

For more than a week now I have been downed with COVID. Aside from one horrible night of a sore throat and lots of coughing, my symptoms hav...

The last period whose atmosphere I'm going to write about is the early nineties, and particularly the early nineties in Ireland. After t...

Always worth watching! This three-hour video is about Ireland and globalization, as well as other things. I highly recommend it.

When I was a kid, I had a particular fascination with titles: book titles, magazine titles, newspaper titles. I also had a fascination with ...

It's a day early, but St. Patrick's Day seems to have become a season in recent years, so I hope I'll be forgiven. It was my tra...

...courtesy of Ryan Roger Athay, a young Welsh YouTuber whose channel I discovered recently. I've found him to be sound on all the impor...

So, after waxing lyrical on the seventies-- the decade I just missed out on-- I'm going to turn to the eighties, the decade I grew up in...