Yearly Archives: 2023
Ashes Cricket on Bloomsday
The planets aligning – or a cosmic joke?
So, the eagerly anticipated first Ashes Test starts today – Bloomsday. For the uninitiated, th...
The staying power of the book
My first job on leaving university, in the early nineties, was as an archivist with a merchant bank in the City of London. I had two bo...
Ireland is a small country
Six degrees of separation are often shrunk to two or three. A chance remark can rapidly become national news. Those who took part in th...