Antoine Ó Flatharta

I went for a walk in Croppies Acre memorial park. A beautiful Sunday with the promise of fine Spring weather. Daffodils and Cherry Blossoms in bloom. Not many people about. I usually wear my airpods and listen to a podcast. For some reason I didn’t today. Instead, I shared the look of guilt on some…

Talk of apocalypse and social isolation reminds me of a booklet sent out to all homes in Ireland in the mid 1960s. The civil defence service published it as a handy guide on how to survive a nuclear war. It was kept in houses all over the country for years, often hanging on a peg…

Good account in Slate from Annalisa Bergna, a 29-year-old biologist working in Milan, about working to isolate and understand Covid-19

I started reading this book during the first days of the Covid-19 shutdown. I remember someone recommending it on a podcast some months ago. It’s a wonderful trawl through the glory days of UK pop and rock music of the 1960s and 70s. It all seems so far away now. Buried deep in the nostalgic…