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Showing posts with label Dromana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dromana. Show all posts
09 March 2026

Daily prayer in Lent 2026:
20, Monday 9 March 2026

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They … led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff (Luke 4: 29) … looking down ...
08 February 2026

Childhood memories of
waiting for Tomorrow
with Petticoat Loose by
the shores of Bay Lough

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Bay Lough, the ‘bottomless’ lake near the Vee in the Knockmealdown Mountains … ‘Petticoat Loose’ and the monsters were condemned to its wate...
22 February 2024

Saint Dunstan-in-the-West
remains a constant
presence in the midst
of change on Fleet Street

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The Guild Church of Saint Dunstan-in-the-West, next door to the former DC Thompson building on Fleet Street, London (Photograph: Patrick Com...
08 November 2023

Love, unrequited love,
and a village wedding
in the poetry of
John Betjeman

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‘How new its weathered stone appears / When vows are made in Heaven’ … reading the poetry of John Betjeman (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) ...
08 February 2022

In search of a family mausoleum
and finding John Betjeman
cycling with Emily in the Burren

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Ballyvaughan, the Burren and Galway Bay spread out below Corkscrew Hill in north Clare (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2022) Patrick Comer...
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06 November 2021

Remembering some personal
saints in a time of remembrance

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A time for gathering in memories … the barn on my grandmother's former farm (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick Comerford In my ...
10 February 2021

The Irish diplomat who was
at the centre of an early
anti-Semitic crisis in Athens

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Sir Thomas Wyse (1791-1862) from Waterford … played a key role in the ‘Don Pacifico’ affair in the decades after Greek independence Patr...
12 January 2021

A Comerford countess
with links to the Fitzgerald
family of Askeaton Castle

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The ruins of Askeaton Castle … the brother of the ‘Sugán’ Earl of Desmond married a Comerford from Danganmore, Co Kilkenny (Photograph: Pat...
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