Delighted to report that Rosemarie Rowley’s poetry collection The Sea of Affliction is now on Irish Literary Revival for free download under a Creative Commons Licence.
She joins
Berkeley, Sara
Casey, Philip
Chapman, Patrick
Duffy, Noel
McDonagh, Terry
O’Driscoll, Ciaran
O’Mahony, Nessa
Wall, Wiliam
More very soon…
Irish Literary Revival

It didn’t take long, did it?
After years of warnings by journalists, particularly Karlin Lillington in The Irish Times and on her weblog, there is finally an (excellent) editorial in today’s Irish Times detailing the repressive data retention laws slipped past an almost empty Dáil some time ago. The Irish Times is unfortunately behind a paywall, [...]

Currently, half of Sweden’s nuclear reactors are idle, but it’s not because of the 1980 referendum in which Swedish citizens asked for a nuclear phase out plan and a switch to renewable energies (f.ex. the state-owned Vattenfall utility is investing $1 billion in wind and wants to build Northern-Europe’s biggest wind farm), but because of [...]

“Novell Linux has just released this amazing technology demonstration video showing off some of the new features of their impressive operating system. While Windows Vista takes about 500MB to boot this Linux technology can run on almost any hardware.”
Novell Linux 10 xgl - Google Video
The demonstration video is over 12 minutes long, but just to [...]

“TOM McGURK hosted an interesting programme this morning on Irish national radio and one of his segments included discussion about the Irish government’s data retention scheme. Simply put, the government is trying to expand its reach into your mobile phone, email records and web browsing history. “
If you think that this subject is too complex [...]

Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a semiconductor device that outperforms today’s conventional chips — and they made it simply by painting a liquid onto a piece of glass.
Nanotechwire.com