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Language Problems
Cultural Extinctions or Digital Revival: The Future of Language Learning Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of the Endangered Languages Archive, has issued a stark warning: “Of the 7,000 languages estimated to exist, half will have disappeared by the end of this century.” … Continue reading
Tower of Song
This essay on song writing is also available as a video podcast on YouTube or can be listened to as an audio podcast or download an MP3 file. I have no plans to podcast regularly, though I do have one … Continue reading
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Tagged bob-dylan, folk-music, indie-folk, Joni Mitchell, leonard-cohen, music, Poetry, singer-songwriter, songwriting, writing
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Did I Say That?…Next Question!
Arguments for Defence and Foreign Aid Spending in a Volatile World. [2130 words] I’ve spent a good part of my life arguing in favour of defusing conflict by means of unilateral disarmament and negotiation. I now find myself in the … Continue reading
A New Year’s Wish for the Blogisphere
And a Sauerkraut Starter For most of us who blog, I suspect, it is a relatively thankless pursuit. WordPress “Stats and Insights” makes it depressingly clear to me that only a small band of people subscribe to my blog and … Continue reading
Football – Man and Boy
Football — soccer that is — occupied a unique position in the culture of Newry and District for it was not an official game in any of the schools, whether Catholic, where Gaelic football and hurling were played, or state schools, such as Newry High School, where the official sports were rugby and hockey. I’d played both of these in my first year and opted for hockey, which I enjoyed; but my first love was “the beautiful game”. Continue reading
Posted in Comment, Misc
Tagged "Carnbane League", "George Best", "John Giles", "Newry Town", "Pat Jennings", "World Cup", soccer
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Remembered Fragments Playlist
Remembered Fragments is a memoir. For those who may have stumbled upon the page, the book and a summary of its content is now available for sale on Amazon at a cost of £12, plus postage, the latter charge being … Continue reading
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George Monbiot: I once admired Russell Brand. But his grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading
George Monbiot’s Guardian article is definitely worth a read if at some time previously you thought, as I did, that Russell Brand was someone of great originality, clever, funny, articulate, worth listening to despite his occasional missteps and his rejection … Continue reading
The Nanny State, the Demon Food Industry and the Neglected Ectomorph
Perhaps under the influence of his brush with the more extreme end of Covid 19, our Prime Minister has decided that the health of the nation requires attention. Plans are afoot to to launch [a] major new anti-obesity strategy in … Continue reading
Posted in In the time of coronavirus, Misc
Tagged diet, ectomorph, inflammation, low carb
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In Search of Better Ways to End Our Lives
There was a time when a person who had become mortally ill or who had reached their high old age could expect to die at home amongst family and not far from friends. In the current era this may yet … Continue reading →