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Showing posts with label Advent 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advent 2011. Show all posts
31 March 2017

Enjoying the ‘flawless Greek’ of
the ‘washerwomen’ of Mungret

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Mungret Abbey on the outskirts of Limerick is one of the oldest monastic sites in Munster (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2017) Patrick ...
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24 December 2011

Christmas Poems (10): In the Bleak Mid-Winter, by Christina Rossetti

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‘If I were a shepherd,/I would bring a lamb’ (Christina Rossetti) … the Neo-Gothic Altarpiece carved at Oberammergau in the 19th century no...
23 December 2011

Christmas Poems (9): ’T’was the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore

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Patrick Comerford I think my choice of TS Eliot’s poem, ‘The Cultivation of Christmas Trees,’ as my Christmas poem yesterday reminded me of ...
22 December 2011

Christmas Poems (8): The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by TS Eliot

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‘The child wonders at the Christmas Tree’ TS Eliot ... a Christmas Tree with Christmas presents on the floor, in Castle Durrow, Co Laois, la...
21 December 2011

Christmas poems (7): A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ was set to music by Stainer and Bramley and included in their collection ‘Christmas Carols New and Old’ in 1...
20 December 2011

Christmas Poems (6): Samuel’s Johnson’s Messiah

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Snow on snow … Lichfield Cathedral seen last Chrtistmas from the gardens of Darwin House by Michael Fabricant, MP for Lichfield Patrick Co...
19 December 2011

Christmas Poems (5): Christ’s Nativity by Henry Vaughan

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‘And let once more, by mystic birth,/The Lord of life be born in earth’ … Henry Vaughan Patrick Comerford My fourth choice of poem for this ...
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18 December 2011

‘Rejoice! ... the time of grace has come’

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With the Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Canon Peter Campion, and the Dean, the Very Revd Dermot Dunne, in the Chapter House before th...

Christmas Poems (4): Nativity by John Donne

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John Donne ... “...for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free.” Patrick Comerford The poet and priest John Donne (1572-1631) is b...
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