
Covid-19: are we really all in this together?
Introduction What I don’t find nice, and I really don’t need, is people clapping. I…
Introduction What I don’t find nice, and I really don’t need, is people clapping. I…
I didn’t particularly want to write this article. I didn’t want to get involved in…
Today is a better day, with the roof of my home intact and my family…
Antiga, Mui Nobre, Sempre Leal e Invicta, the city of Porto, a place so magical,…
Here’s Mr Pip, aged parent”, said Wemmick, and I wish you could hear his…
Years ago, arriving late one evening in Ostende by train – always my favourite means…
1960s Belfast Sat in silence on the bottom step, with my knees tucked under my…
This year marks the 109th International Women’s Day. The now universally recognized date first bore…
Never boast to your children that you had seventeen occupations before your twenty-fifth birthday. I…
Disregarding chronological order, this is the tenth episode of A Monk Manqué, Bob Quinn’s unpublished…
Prokopyevsk, 1974 SNOW is everywhere. So much of it, that the whole world looks like…
2019 has taught us all we need to know about Mortality. So many writers, musicians,…
We sent twenty questions to Maverick film maker Bob Quinn who published ten excerpts of…
I made the following notes in an old factory that was built in 1906 at…
I was sickened to read a fawning obituary to an absolute creep and impostor Randal…
‘God bless all here’ as our ancestors used to say upon arrival at the home…
Overheard in the local last night D’ye go to mass at all? Ah, just the…
I admire old people who live by their wits, like the ancient American, a real…
https://soundcloud.com/frank-armstrong-649911741/the-doomsday-machines-ii-recording-1-2020-01-09-t01-29-51pm-frankarmstrong Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film ‘Dr Strangelove’ dramatizes the still not-altogether-remote scenario of Mutually Assured…
That summer of 1974 for the first time in my young life I felt proud…