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Live long and prosper
THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS of ageing can be traced to its beginning four billion years ago in a gene circuit...
A life in books
NOVEMBER 1952: BERNARD Marks has just arrived in northern Egypt from Salford, in the north of England, to begin...
The human factor
I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief...
Joining forces
THESE ARE ANGRY times. The Earth itself is angry. Flames roar through the land, human tempers flare and the...
Killing time
The days of our lives are seventy years;And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,Yet their boast...
Old growth
IN 1975, JUST before my sixteenth birthday, I read in the summer issue of Dolly magazine that everyone needed some...
Contemporary loss
ONE OF THE most popular Irish broadcasters and writers of modern times was Nuala O’Faolain. Abruptly, in the middle...
One hundred years of sumbiotude
I AM A child of the Anthropocene, born in 1953. I have lived in a period of history also known...
In an unguarded moment
IT’S EARLY ON a Friday and the usual morning hustle of a school day is playing out in my...
The town turns over
Listen to Laura Elvery read ‘The town turns over’. IF YOU WANT to know how we got here, we will tell you. Once, not...
How the sky stays above us
I am changing now the congregation of years not age so much as a ripening view and I have started speaking to trees one big...
The hungry years
LIKE FALLING OVER, choking in public is always a little embarrassing. When it happens, people feel the need to...
