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Lessons from Being Ill-Prepared: dog walking in the rain

My wife and I sat in the car and were torn, the rain wasn’t too bad, whilst up the hill…

Winning the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction at age 29 is just unfair. I think I may have read everything that…

Just a few days ago my wife, my son and I spent part of an afternoon laughing and remembering round…

It’s not easy to live in the immediate aftermath of a Good Friday execution and an Easter resurrection. No surprise…

Opening Music “Burnt Over District”, Hem, from the album Funnel Cloud When I was a young man I heard a…

There was a vast crowd thronging Jerusalem that morning when Jesus came riding in on that humble donkey. Pilgrims from…

You can take your Giants Causeway and your Mountains of Mourne. Get away from me with your Fermanagh Lakes and…

“Sarah’s Choice” is a long poem written by Eleanor Wilner. I link to it below for our politicians contemplating a…

I’ve just heard that Martin McGuinness has passed away and I reckon that as the tributes and plaudits flow in…

Days Without End is the latest novel by Sebastian Barry which just recently won the 2016 Costa Book of the…