Ineffable Ireland
Jan Morris, doyenne of the travel writing world, had a lovely piece about her recent travels through Ireland in the Saturday FT (10.7.10). Despite claiming that it's difficult to […]
What shape are you?
Picture cred – via the fabulous One Letter Pool on Flickr What shape are you? I ask this not to see if you're comfortable with your weight and body, but […]
Wanted: Cop On
When you've done with advertising your 1991 Mercedes, "lovely clean car and a good runner", and that hardly used push chair, and when you're convinced that your country is still […]
Give thanks for think tanks?
Source This can be read as a justification for a plug. The plug is for a series of events that I’m running at the Science Gallery in Dublin, exploring the […]
Ageing in Ireland
I've got a book review forthcoming in Ageing and Society – people interested in Ireland, ageing and multi-method social research might be interested in it. Carmel Gallagher, The Community Life […]
Notes on a recession
Said my landlord, a farmer in County Meath, the other day: "I love this recession… 1. The sun is shining 2. People say 'please' and 'thank you' 3. You call […]
The don't knows have it
Decision day today in Ireland. The streets are packed with exhortations to vote one way or other. Ireland, like India, uses public space to maximum effect during elections. There is such […]
Murmurs of older people's stories
Murmur hits Dublin, with a focus on older people’s oral histories of the docklands of the city: [murmur] is a documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told […]
What I learned today…
That the Irish Farmers Association is registered as a telecoms provider in Ireland. I was surprised. Perhaps I shouldn’t be. Photo Credit
Lucre, Lolly and the Irish
Nothing like the new year to make you feel a bit skint. Good timing then for an article on the new rich of Ireland of which, it suggests, there are […]