Showing posts with label Musings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Musings. Show all posts
Saturday, 2 February 2013

A European attitude to the Irish language

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Irish journalist and radio host, Scott De Buitléir, discusses a new play, Focal Point by Machan Magan, which looks at differing reactio...
Thursday, 29 November 2012

Taking a SHORT break from the Tudors

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Regular, or even casual, readers will know that quite a bit of this blog is given over to discussion of the Tudors and sixteenth-century ...
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Sunday, 28 October 2012

Saint Jude and Me

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"Hope doth lead from day to day." - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England (1507-1536) Today is the feast day of Saint Jude the Apostl...
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Christopher Hitchen's thoughts on "Brideshead Revisited"

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After posting my review of the 2008 movie adaptation of Brideshead Revisited , starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw and Emma Thompson,...
Saturday, 28 July 2012

What's God got to do with it: Religion, Ireland and the Troubles

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The Irish are always particularly hostile to outsiders' "interference." Woe betide the first foreign national who tries to...
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Saturday, 24 December 2011

Merry Christmas, 2011

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Whilst it's famously called "the most wonderful time of the year," Christmas can also be a difficult time for people. It can ...
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Friday, 3 June 2011

The Stagnation of the Conservative Woman: Courtney Pannell reflects

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Writing in The Yale Herald , my friend Courtney Pannell, a young conservative woman herself, reflects in an absolutely brilliant article on...
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Tuesday, 3 May 2011

"I don't care about the Royal Wedding. So I'm going to complain about it constantly."

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Elena Maria Vidal, author of Trianon , Madame Royale and The Night's Dark Shade , comments on the interesting (I'm playing fast a...
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Saturday, 1 January 2011

Hello, 2011!

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Well, A.D. 2010 has been and gone and today is January 1st, 2011 - New Year's Day in the United Kingdom since the reign of King George ...
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Monday, 27 December 2010

"All girls are princesses. Didn't your father ever tell you that?"

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Via Tea at Trianon  comes quite an entertaining article by Virginia Postrel on the psychological appeal and utility of the "princess ...
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Sunday, 26 September 2010

"In a true democracy, everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut": Has the Preppy Era gone too far?

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Thirty years after the publication of Lisa Birnbach's The Official Preppy Handbook, Eric Felten wonders if the culture of preppines...
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Sunday, 5 September 2010

"The beauteous Anne Boleyn and the guilty Catherine Howard"

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"In front of the altar, repose the beauteous Anna (sic) Boleyn, and the guilty Catherine Howard, two ill-fated wives of Henry VIII...
Friday, 27 August 2010

Katharine Parr in the Movies

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"Six wives. And the best of them's the worst." - The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) Everley Gregg was the first on-scree...
Thursday, 26 August 2010

The Sexualisation of Anne Boleyn

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Claire Ridgway at The Anne Boleyn Files criticises the over-sexualisation of Anne Boleyn's story in the modern media. You can read C...
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Monday, 9 August 2010

The Allure of Anne Boleyn

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There is an old adage that well-behaved women seldom make history. No-one alive in the sixteenth century could have doubted that Anne Bole...
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Tuesday, 1 June 2010

An Inconvenient Truth?: The Crimes of Communism and why people prefer to forget they ever happened

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Via Tea at Trianon comes a fascinating article about why so many people in the West today seem to prefer to ignore the horrors revealed by ...
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Sunday, 4 April 2010

Easter Sunday

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"They returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. Now they were Mary Magdalene and Johanna ...
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Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Holy Tuesday

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“My soul is exceedingly sorrowful unto death.” - The Gospel according to Saint Mark, Chapter 14 Holy Tuesday, the third day of Holy Week, (s...
Monday, 29 March 2010

Fig Monday

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“Verily, I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the Kingdom of God before you.” - The Gospel according to Saint Matthe...
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Thursday, 25 March 2010

Hugging

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Recently I got to thinking (yay!) about hugging and it was actually the events of last week which made me really think about. Hugging, in ge...
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