Any listener of the excellent Something Rhymes with Purple – a podcast about strange and forgotten words – will know...
James Joyce
Eamon de Valera and comely maidens. The title of this blog post will jump out at anyone who is Irish...
Hipster sausages, hipster prices - it's all food for thought. Excuse me dear, I'm hungry tonight. Leopold Bloom, Ulysses. (more…)
Satori identity. This was an alien concept to me, until I came across Kerouac. Jack Kerouac's book Satori in Paris is...
I live the following quote about Seamus Heaney in Madrid: It was by pressing hard against a pen, and not...
My journey into our shared past, toward Ireland & Spain in myth, began with a poem. (more…)
