WB Yeats Pencil Set – The Second Coming
The Second Coming In November 2020 I was on twitter and I caught a video of the Irish ambassador in Washington DC reading a Yeats poem. The poem was called...
The Second Coming In November 2020 I was on twitter and I caught a video of the Irish ambassador in Washington DC reading a Yeats poem. The poem was called...
Lessons on Love from Ancient Ireland One of my favourite things about reading old proverbs and sayings is imagining who first said them. How many hundreds or maybe even thousands of...
Looking Back During the first lock down I spent a lot of time chopping logs. It was pretty therapuetic, helping my dad fell the trees, lifting the axe, feeling it...
I'm a librarian, what's your superpower? In appreciation and celebrations of librarians the world over. While it might only be National Librarian Day in America today I'll take any excuse...
My favourite poems In honour of international poetry day I have compiled a list of 25 of my favourite poems. From modern poets like Mary Oliver and Seamus Heaney to the...
Five of the best feminist quotes Today is international women's day, and in celebration and also reflection, I have put together five of my favourite quotes on feminism. By some of...
Jane Austen was a prolific letter writer, devastatingly for us, her family with no foresight to the future fame of their sister, burned a large part of her letters. So...
Today I have something a little different for you. My new pattern pencils. These pencils were originally designed as a special commission for a subscription box company and they have...
It was a Saturday  On the 16th of October in 1847 the London Publishers; Smith, Elder and Company published Charlotte Bronte's novel  Jane Eyre. It was published under her pen name Currer Bell....