It’s a known fact that the greatest stress felt by dogs is living with us. Yes, it seems hard to believe but not when you delve into what causes stress. Inconsistencies: Dogs see the world in black and white. I don’t mean that they are colour blind but that life […]
Eugene Daly looks at the factors that instigated the diminishment of our native tongue in Ireland. The mortal wounds of Gaelic Ireland were inflicted at the battle of Kinsale in 1601, but the death agony was prolonged for all of the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth and nineteenth in […]
“The greatest gift is a portion of thyself” Ralph Waldo Emerson At this time of year when hearing the word resolution can feel overwhelming, I hope you’ll forgive me for bringing up legacy, another word with mighty connotations it seems. Often bringing to mind visions of lofty accomplishments, philanthropic gifts, […]
It’s halfway through January so I expect that most of us are back to whatever it was we were doing before we promised ourselves to change. ‘New Year, New You’ is but a faint memory. In fact, by the time you read this you probably have seen the resolutions you […]
The Realism Now exhibition, currently showing in Barcelona’s MEAM Museum, showcases some of the world’s best contemporary figurative painters. Amongst them is the British painter, Edward Povey (b.1951), whose extraordinary brand of ‘emotional realism’ (the artist’s term) both resonates and extends the Western tradition, intimating and echoing painters as far […]
There is something about West Cork. It may be the landscape, or the people. It holds a powerful attraction. Katrina O’Kane was well aware of it as a child when, growing up in Belfast, her mother took her “down south” to visit a friend on their beautiful farm in Borlin […]