Tag: Michael Walsh

THE PLUCK OF THE IRISH

Many great literary figures, often regarded as English, are actually of Irish descent. Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker. Listening to Chopin’s nocturnes is one of life’s greatest reveries. However, Irishman John Field is the father of the piano nocturne.

THE EXTRAORDINARY POWER OF COSMIC DIVINITY

Immersed in clear evidence of cosmic influence (God), it is astounding that there are still people who doubt the influence of the Cosmic Deity.

Herbert von Karajan, the acclaimed musician, put it concisely: ‘You don’t need faith to believe in God, because there are plenty of signs available of His existence.

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE LEBANON

There could be no possibility of my missing one of two excruciating deaths. If the tug’s propellers didn’t turn me into mincemeat, my drowned corpse would eventually float to the surface after the floating crane had passed over me. Even if the tug stopped, the momentum of the barge would merely spare me the chop from the stilled propellers.

THE BIRTH OF THE FAMILY CAR

Volkswagen was a far better-designed car than its British, French and American counterparts. Bolshevik Russia didn’t have a domestic auto manufacturing industry and was wholly dependent upon the Ford Motor Company, Caterpillar and brands such as Studebaker.