Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, bookworms! I know I’ve been a bad book blogger lately and I’m trying to do my best to make it up to you. To start, a St. Paddy’s Day celebration of some of my favorite Irish writers. Just about a year ago, I spent a week in the Emerald Isle for [...]
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The Luck o’ the Irish
Top o’ the mornin’ to ya, bookworms! It’s Saint Patrick’s Day! In honor of the Saint Paddy and the Emerald Isle, let’s give thanks for some of my favorite Irish authors, poets and playwrights: Jonathan Swift, for giving us Gulliver’s Travels and silly made-up words and people, like Lilliputians and Yahoos. James Joyce, for “stream [...]
Irish Contemplation
“Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” – W.B. Yeats “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk serious about.” – Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan “On the other hand what incensed [...]
