Journal
Articles
Hearing stories of the past
WHEN WE FIRST see Daphne, she is sitting in a pool of sunshine at the edge of her veranda....
Things of stone and wood and wool
FOLLOWING THE DEATH of her elderly father, a close friend of mine recently asked if I would read a...
On looking into mirrors
YOU LOOK INTO the mirror. There are a number around the house and every now and then one of...
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...
