The Dead Who Died For Ireland.The dead who died for Ireland!Oh, these are living wordsTo nerve the hearts of patriots—To steel avenging swords—They thrill the soul when spoken,and lowly bend the headWith reverence for the memoriesof all our martyred dead..The dead who died for Ireland—The noble ones—the best,Who […]
I asked a friend who is heading towards his eightieth birthday what sort of changes he is feeling in himself? He sent me the following: 1. After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I have now started loving myself. 2. I have […]
‘I know that I have less to live than I have lived. And, I feel like a child who was given a box of chocolates. He enjoys eating it, and when he sees not much left, he starts to eat them with a special taste.
DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville. Scientists have ‘definitively’ proved the identity of remains – with the navigator’s precise origins to be revealed Scientists in Spain have solved the two lingering mysteries that cling to Christopher Columbus more than five centuries after the explorer died Are […]
Slovakia could become the first country to ban the covid mRNA vaccines. Massive news coming out of Slovakia, and as usual, the mainstream media is barely reporting on this. Remember how people were mocked by mainstream and highly paid ‘experts’ and called crazy conspiracy theorists for questioning if […]
Sadly, the clip of a BBC’s main news item that displayed an Indian street celebration as an anti-Gaddafi demo in Tripoli’s main square was par for the course these dark days. One would have thought that modern technology, and the internet, would have ended such knavish behaviour by […]
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ (L. P Hartley: The Go-Between)
In May 1940, renowned photographer John Vachon captured a poignant image of a farmer’s children in the Ozarks, Missouri. This photograph reflects the simplicity and resilience of rural life during the Great Depression era, a time when many families faced significant economic challenges. Vachon’s work often focused on […]
A seaman who fell overboard from a supply ship in the vast Pacific Ocean at 4 am spent more than 14 hours clinging to an old fishing buoy before being rescued. Alone in the middle of the world’s greatest ocean, and without a lifejacket, at first dawn he […]
‘Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, and then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us. I can live only wholly with you or not at all.
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