“Many years ago Mike and I climbed Knocknarea, and the cairn. “
One Memory Leads To Another……
The Crossing Point
“Ireland’s calm maturity in the face of Westminster duplicity should remind us that there’s an opportunity, if we wish to take it, to be honest and better and different.”
“I realised it would be a Herculean task to climb those huge cliffs, my body numbed and drained of energy. “
“I realised it would be a Herculean task to climb those huge cliffs, my body numbed and drained of energy. ” 228580 Leading Seaman William Cashman,
Seamus Heaney #OnThisDay
On the 30th of August 2013 the poet Seamus Heaney died in Dublin
Nothing Without Demand
“The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of ernest struggle….. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will”. Frederick Douglass, 1857.
Celtic Cosmos: ‘Space and Science Fiction’
For the month of August 2020, the Tsukure Hub on Ayr High Street will be given over to a space and science fiction exhibition organised by
Celtic Cosmos.
Lord Kitchener, HMS Hampshire and the Aghada Connection
“There were at least 28 Irish sailors lost on HMS Hampshire”
Poetry Corner: Quarantine
A poem of love and selflessness #BeKind
‘A cheque continually post dated’: The Campaign for Irish Home Rule
“My mission is to pacify Ireland”.
Every day you wake up and think it can’t get any madder.
Here’s today’s new low. It comes from Manchester, courtesy of the thigh squeezing, serially mendacious unelected Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, and his speech today.
