Irish Papist

Today I found myself thinking about this sketch from "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" , a series which ran from 1989 to 1995. I can'...

Longtime readers might remember the Traditions! Traditions! Traditions! blog I set up a few years ago (in 2018, actually), and then promptly...

I work in the library in University College Dublin, on the Belfield campus. (Its main campus is Belfield, though it also has a campus in Bla...

I was on a bus passing through Dublin city centre today when I saw a march leaving the Garden of Remembrance. As there were a lot of red ban...

Last night I dreamed I was transferring a small boy, a toddler, from its pushchair to a couch. It wasn't my child. I was taking care of ...

I never look at my blog statistics any more. Mostly because they're discouraging, but also because I suspect they're fairly meaningl...

Sir, – After her failed attempt to secure a nomination in the forthcoming presidential election, Maria Steen remarked “rarely has the politi...