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1842 Ordnance Survey Map (Queen's College not yet built) GALWAY HOSPITALS  1235 - 2019 The very first recognised hospit...

Escape from Tehran Sculptor: Ahad Hosseni Azerbaijan Museum, Tabriz, Iran. The philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in his 1786 essay...

VIADUCTS OF TIME AND COMMUNICATION...AND CONQUEST:  I've always admired our desire as a society to lay down paths of communi...

Freya Stark is a heroine of mine.... maybe I should say "hero", or even invent a gender neutral,  " a hro of mine...

I'm going back someday Come what may To Blue Bayou Where the folks are fun And the.....

ERDOĞAN'S TURKEY With apologies to Osman Hamdi Bey's 1907  "The Tortoise Trainer"

MERKEL'S GERMANY With apologies to Max Beckmann's Blind Man's Buff (or Bluff)

VARADKAR'S IRELAND The "Border Backstop" With thanks to Harry Clarke

MAY'S ENGLAND With apologies to Henry Moore. Expectation and desolation in the "new" England.

Orbán's Hungary With apologies to Béla Kádár (1877 -1956) The Music's gone!

MACRON'S FRANCE With apologies to Delacroix

Trump's America A different perspective! with thanks to Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978) with thanks to Edward Ho...

Walking through the local woods yesterday I was astounded by the  number of varieties of fungi that have appeared this year.  ...

My Grandson Arthur half-hiding as in "I really want to be found".

Rihla  (The Journey) – was the short title of a 14th Century (1355 CE) book written in Fez by the Islamic legal scholar Ibn Jazay...