My favourite part of the day was the chicken watch, mid-afternoon and usually sunny and warm. I was volunteering on a farm in Italy as a ‘workaway’, and one of my jobs was letting the chickens out for their daily run and getting them back safely into the coop. The […]
As winter arrives and energy bills climb, your home’s heat is literally escaping. But keeping your house warm this season doesn’t have to be expensive or difficult. This article breaks down the easiest, most cost-effective insulation upgrades you can make—starting with a look at the materials themselves. Understanding insulation materials […]
Carl Linnaeus, the great 18th century Swedish biologist, gave scientific names, based on his binomial system, to over 4,000 species of animals (and even more plants). He called the donkey Equus asinus, which is literally just ‘horse donkey’ in Latin. But in English, ‘asinine’, meaning donkey-like, has become a synonym […]
A new feature documentary, ‘Theocracy, the Emigrant’s Artist’, capturing the life and work of the London-based Irish artist Bernard Canavan – known globally as The Emigrant’s Artist because of his paintings of the Irish Diaspora – will premiere at this year’s Cork International Film Festival in November. Directed by renowned […]