Check out Irish History Unfiltered

So I’ve been trying to get better acquainted with the history of Ireland, which is a subject about which I am embarrassingly ignorant. By far and away, my favorite resource so far has been Fin Dwyer’s superb Youtube channel, Irish History Unfiltered.

Each episode tends to be brief. (Most of the ones I’ve watched are less than 10 minutes.) But … the briefer running time is offset by the fact that Dwyer speaks a bit quickly. And his obvious enthusiasm makes the videos engaging and the information easier to retain.

You can find it right here.



Rest easy, Walter Koenig.

The “Star Trek” actor passed away on Sunday at the age of 90.

Variant cover to “Nightwing” #124, Dexter Soy, 2024

DC Comics. Cover A.

“Tristan und Isolde,” Rogelio de Egusquiza

Celebrating World Common Literature Day!

🙂 With Sourav Sarkar at Cooch Behar Magazine in India.

Poster for “Calamity Jane” (1953)

Warner Bros. Pictures.

YOU CAN TAKE MY ADVERBS WHEN YOU PRY THEM FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.

SLOWLY, in fact. You’d be prying them SLOWLY.



“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

— W. B. Yeats, “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”



photo by George Charles Beresford, 1911

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