Caitlín Maude, YouTube apologies, I had the youtube video embedded, but it crashed some IE browsers File, aisteoir, amhránaí agus agóidí ab ea Caitlín Maude. Cailleadh í i 1982 agus í 41 bliain d’aois. Ba chailliúint mhór í dá teaghlach agus don tír ar fad. Bhí sí ar dhuine de na healaíontóirí ba chruthaí dá [...]
Apologies to those of you who use Internet Explorer and have got an “Aborted” message when visiting this website. Hopefully the issue is resolved now. I would have continued to be unaware of it but for Christine Clear and Rosemarie Rowley. Rosemarie sent me an email wondering if my website had moved. In Christine’s case, [...]
Some years ago I wrote a poem called Starling. It was based on my experience of seeing them flock in Champagne. Of course I read a lot about them, but somehow because I had seen them flock in October, I presumed they were grouping to go south. Not necessarily so, it seems. In fact, depending [...]
Poet Michael O’Dea has a wonderful Goya video on his blog. Worth checking out. I hadn’t seen some of them before and I’m a big Goya fan. I hadn’t known Michael had a blog, but he sent me news of a recent publication for Irish Writers Online, ie a bilingual, Galician/English chapbook, Felos ainda serra, [...]