Irish Papist

Today a long-ago memory swam back into my consciousness, a throwaway reference in some movie review (I think it was a review of Poltergeist)...

"Here I will not shrink from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to this country, were it vastly more superstitious, m...

Today is the Feast of our Lady of Carmel. Remarkably, it was approved all the way back in 1587. I'm always fascinated to hear people tal...

This comic poem is from At Swim Two Birds , the staggeringly precocious novel written by the young Brian O'Nolan, who accumulated an imp...

More than ten years ago, I wrote this article about Don't Shoot, I'm Not Well! , an excellent book of humorous essays by the late (...

What happens when a mysterious new headmistress called Miss Voor takes over a girl's school called St. Juniper's and starts making m...

I was scanning through my blog archives and came across this bit of silliness. I rarely engage in free verse, but this is one of those rare ...