‘To Be or Not to be’, It’s a Cert for Leaving? By Paddy McMenamin Well, that’s it over for another year, three weeks of Algebra & Geometry, French & German, Shakespeare & George Orwell, J B Keane & Sophocles, the Treaty of Limerick or the Treaty of 1921, and, of course Gaeilge, written & aural,…
Belt It Out Detta “The Only Thing Better Than Singing, Is More Singing” Ella Fitzgerald My earliest memories of my mum were of her voice. To be specific, her singing voice. I remember her singing in church, in the car, karaoke, around the piano with her siblings, in fact anywhere. She would love to sing…
On Statues and Historical Legacy Floyd will never know how his death changed the world, the innocent Minneapolis guy who had a racist cop stand on his neck for 12 minutes while he gasped for breath and eventually expired has inspired people the world over to stand up against institutionalised racism – and not before…
In c431a Welsh Shepard found his way to this part of the world and changed the place for all time. Patrick or Patricius had already been here previously after being sold into slavery by Irish pirates, now he was coming back as a preacher to convert a pagan island to Christianity, ordaining priests to spread…
Book Review“All That We Never See: Our Journey With Autism”By: Áine and Gerry Crosse Published by Book Hub Publishing (2020). Reviewer: Dr. Phil Noone “I just want to grieve and sleep.” Poignant words from a mother, left alone to take care of her three autistic children since the sudden death of her husband, Gerry, just 7 weeks…
I don’t write my words for posterity. These vagabond musings are not created to linger in some “dry as dust” attic, to be discovered, covered in cobwebs, by some unborn explorer. No, they are transient, like cobwebs themselves, magicked out of nowhere, to sit momentarily, dewclad, upon a rosebush of morning.They are fragments of dust, dancing briefly…
“The Butterfly Effect” by Alan Creedon, Debut Author with Book Hub Publishing. “My daughter spotted it yesterday while we walked the dog in the hills. ‘Can we take it home and look after it?’, she begged, and a conversation began. I suggested that in the wild this ‘deformed’ creature would not survive, that we shouldn’t…
Being Kind to Your Inner Childby Giselle Marrinan, Author of ‘Another Zero’. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”George Bernard Shaw No matter what age we are, there is a child in all of us. I liken us to the Russian Matryoshka doll. These are the wooden…
‘Surviving and Thriving amidst COVID-19’ By Mairead Carroll “Allow yourself to sit with your deepest hidden emotions, become friends with the shadow part of you. Sit under the moon and stars and fall back in love with yourself again like you did when you were three, riding wild with a carefree ease. Write…
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it” J.M Barrie – Peter Pan Consider this: how has governmental imposed self-isolation affected you? If, you were already struggling before this pandemic, has the ‘lockdown’ clipped your wings even more? Did it necessitate a paradigm shift? When we…