Tag: history

• Dawn and Court

  Moon drawn down, dual dawn Quicksilver basilica  Alabaster pate Below, hydromania  Selene’s suitors crane to meet her, crashing and pushing and collapsing Eärendil with pleasure differed awaits the dischargement of her heavenly duties Myriad dizzying rotations dormant, laden impatience Listless, languid, She shivering shimmering Winter queen,  White stripped bone bleached none of green, whims of…

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  27th Oct 2023

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• Books to look out for: Astral Geographic by Andy Sharp, published by Watkins Books

  Pre-order here: In the introduction to Astral Geographic, Andy Sharp says that magic can become a life enrichment tool. Something which enables one to enhance experience through creative engagement. Andy’s first book, The English Heretic Collection, arrived at just the right time for me, when my life was in dire need of enrichment.  Couple months…

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  1st Sep 2023

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• The Bullaun

  Final week in July but inside the church a chill winters the air. Father Herlihy’s sermon always runs long on Sundays. Never less than four but sometimes five hours long. He would write all night of a Saturday, crafting righteous tracts of comical dimension, designed to forestall what it was that his congregation got up…

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  29th Aug 2023

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• The Liffey Thing

  From April 23 1983 Irish Independent article by Peter Cowan Archaeologists have described the largest Viking graveyard ever to be excavated in Europe outside Scandinavia as a “significant find”. Pottery, stirrups, and locks were found during preliminary trenching at Dublin’s Phoenix Tunnel. ACI were notified when workmen found high numbers of topsoil artifacts. Foreman K…

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  28th Aug 2023

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• Short story: Somme Nambulist

  To the reader, sonic partnership for your journey through the codex: https://alchemisland.bandcamp.com/track/somme-nambulent-i 1916. The violent tapestry of a red century’s troubled childhood is invisible beneath the bloodstains. The war which was to end before Christmas drags on into its second year of breakless harvest. On the shattered continent the rutting stags of European royalty vye…

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  25th Aug 2023

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