Just about a year ago, Patrick Chapman and I set up an experiment called Irish Literary Revival. As we put it in our introduction, This is where out-of-print and out-of-circulation Irish books are brought back into the world. Although our name is a pun, our intentions are serious. Would that we both had more time [...]
On a day when the world’s media is consumed with the unintended decapitation, rather than the “civilized” hanging of a former tyrant, perhaps Carl Sagan’s words put a few things in perspective. Of the “pale blue dot” reproduced at Futility Closet (link below), he said That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you [...]
There were nasty scenes in North Mayo early this morning, when the Gardaí (Irish Police) baton-charged local residents and supporters when they tried to block a convoy of Shell construction workers building a gas pipeline near their homes. It seems extraordinary that the Irish police would baton-charge its own people to allow a multinational company [...]
Humanity slides into the red today and begins racking up an ecological overdraft driven by unsustainable exploitation of the world’s resources, according to a report by the sustainable development organisation Global Footprint Network. In little more than nine months, humans have used up all that nature can replenish in one year, and for the rest [...]