Poster by Concert Arts
Mission: Impossible
When I was growing up, AI meant Artificial Insemination, something to do with impregnating cows to give designer calves. Now AI means Artificial Intelligence and MI means Mission Impossible. MI…
Image by Ben Kerckx from Pixabay
The Change
I thought less of him. Why would he beg? Why would he sit there? with a bowl by his leg. I thought less of him. He asked me for…
Image by joaquincorbalan
Why do five out of four people have trouble with fractions?
From my school days of old I could not figure out why fractions were ever invented, Be it four over five or five over four, my confusion could not be…
Image by bess.hamiti@gmail.com from Pixabay
Wake up and Dream
The then sky and the now sky — they are one. Your childhood memories, so far away,Yet they are just yesterday.The clouds move slowly, as if to conveyYou are miles…
Photo by Polinalebed
Learning to Dance
I never was a dancer. I grew up among party piece singers, chancers, and paint artists. But the use of one’s feet was alien; a cold and barren planet that nobody spoke…
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Church Island, Lough Owel, Co Westmeath
As the ice receded leaving fresh water to fill the fissures of earth, it was maybe in the time of the Fir Bolg or the Tuatha De Danann, they came…
Image by ChantelleL3
Rembrandt’s ‘Christ on the Cross’ 1631 A Café in Mullingar
Howard Jones’ ‘No one is to blame’ pipes through a café in Mullingar in the beat and thrust of electronified syncopation. Am I the only one here stopping for coffee…
Image by Prostock-studio
Daddy and Daughter Cycling
There are no cars parked outside Nanny Quinn’s, the barges lie silent in the cooling summer, as Royal Canal water, seeped in the clays of peat and prickly gorse, glides…
The Fairytale of Mullingar
It was Christmas Eve that day In the food bank A Ukrainian said to me ..we wont see another one. And then he sang a song Unfamiliar to me or…
Poster by Concept Arts
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick—the 2022 sequel to the 1986 original Top Gun film—is about love. Not the love between Maverick (Tom Cruise) and Penny (Jennifer Connolly) who runs the bar where…
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