by Barbara | Mar 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Having recently cleared out our family home I am now the proud custodian of some of our family photos. There is a very battered fake leather album into which my mother stuck the ‘good photos’, each one held in place by black corner sticky hinge things. The photos that...
by Barbara | Nov 15, 2021 | Animals, Geese, Uncategorized
This is the longer text of my script which was broadcast on RTE Radio One, Sunday Miscellany on 14 November 2021. A link to the programme is here https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22029731/ Photo by Jan Rod It’s in November I hear them first. It begins as an echo...
by Barbara | Jun 22, 2020 | Modern Irish History
26th June 1920 One hundred years ago, on the 26th of June 1920, one of the most extraordinary events of the War of Independence began to unfold on the banks of the beautiful River Blackwater just outside the north Cork town of Fermoy. Fermoy was a major garrison town...
by Barbara | May 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Whatever else you can say about where we are as a country at the moment we are certainly living in interesting times. Nowhere is the tsunami of social change reflected more clearly in the result of the referendum to lower the waiting period for divorce from 4 years to...
by Barbara | Oct 30, 2018 | Haloween
Tomorrow is Halloween; the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. Samhain marked the end of the harvest, the beginning of winter and (most importantly) the celebration of woman as Crone. In ancient mythology woman was represented by the Triple Goddess of The Maiden, The...
