It remains genuinely hilarious that people think this quote is WB Yeats. This is on the wall in Kilkenny Design in Dublin, by the way. Bit of a lurch in tone from "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Harry Martinson, translation from Swedish by Robin Fulton.
The word "untainted" is an interesting choice of word by Jim Allister. Surely he's not referring to Comhaltas Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, the world’s biggest celebration of Irish music and culture, being held in Belfast?
Photographs posted by Birdwatch Ireland of a cuckoo being fed by a meadow pipit.
Almost finished writing a review of this book. Short version: it's superb.
By Michael Atherton former England Cricket Captain, published in The Times (where he serves as the Chief Cricket Correspondent.
At the Rockwell Kent exhibition in Donegal County Museum. Very interesting. His Moby Dick illustrations are beautiful.
All the usual cliches trotted out. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
It’s not just Homer: the new generation of poets enjoying epic success
Christopher Nolan’s film has made the Odyssey a bestselling book again, but a slew of new poets are breaking sales records, and have more in common with the ancient Greek than you might expect
theguardian.com
At the gym with a friend of mine this morning. He can hold this position for an impressively long ago. He says it's down to years of being stopped by the UDR.
The Portadown train near midnight. The crowds in Belfast are off the scale.
What a time to be in Belfast! The fleadh is such a tremendous celebration of our culture. I have never experienced anything like this before.
The greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/
These are like hens teeth for obvious reasons. But I got my hands on one. This summer's beachwear. #Mayo75
Now I know where Scott McKendry got his inspiration.
