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29 July 2025

Greece pays tribute
to the composer
Mikis Theodorakis on
his 100th birthday

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‘My whole life is close to you’ … today celebrated the 100th birthday of the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis Patrick Comerford Today ma...

24 July 2025

An eventual reunion with lost
copies of ‘Moonlight Sonata’
(Η Σονάτα Του Σεληνόφωτος)
and the poetry of Yiannis Ritsos

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The Full Moon over the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens earlier this month Patrick Comerford I was pondering earlier last week on h...

03 May 2023

A photograph to illustrate
a new book by a priest-poet

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‘A Doorway into Thanks: Further Reflections on Scripture’ … Tim Vivian’s new collection of poetry includes my photograph of the royal doors ...

01 May 2020

Two songs and poems
from Greece for May Day

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The harbour at Rethymnon … I first got to know the writings of Andreas Papandreou on a holiday in the 1980s (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) ...

20 July 2019

Where were you 50 years ago,
on the night of the moon landing?

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Gormanston College ... in among the 6C year on 27 June 1969, three weeks before the moon landing Patrick Comerford Anyone of my age can...

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Greece pays tribute to the composer Mikis Theodorakis on his 100th birthday

An eventual reunion with lost copies of ‘Moonlight Sonata’ (Η Σονάτα Του Σεληνόφωτος) and the poetry of Yiannis Ritsos

A photograph to illustrate a new book by a priest-poet

Two songs and poems from Greece for May Day

Where were you 50 years ago, on the night of the moon landing?

Greece pays tribute
to the composer
Mikis Theodorakis on
his 100th birthday

An eventual reunion with lost
copies of ‘Moonlight Sonata’
(Η Σονάτα Του Σεληνόφωτος)
and the poetry of Yiannis Ritsos

A photograph to illustrate
a new book by a priest-poet

Two songs and poems
from Greece for May Day

Where were you 50 years ago,
on the night of the moon landing?