

Fistfuls of beryls and rivets and citrines: Edith Sitwell in Lecale
Edith Sitwell and Downpatrick County Down


Swords & pointy slippers: art at play
IN WARNER Brothers’s King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), the Norman monarch (lantern-jawed George Sanders) tests his steel broadsword...


Unhome: illness, reading & not ending well
Something about Georges Bernanos, being mortal, and how things may not turn out well at all.


Exchanges, confidences, intimacies, worries, transactions
Sheehy Skeffington, poetry and Downpatrick