David Wheatley
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Cairngorm-regarder. Bairn-herder.
At the National Gallery.
January 4, 2026 at 9:01 AM
At the National Gallery.
A copy of Androcles and the Lion in the Shaw alphabet. Doesn’t seem to have caught on.
January 3, 2026 at 10:29 AM
A copy of Androcles and the Lion in the Shaw alphabet. Doesn’t seem to have caught on.
A frankly incredible claim in Edgeworth’s The Absentee that ortolans can be found on the Blasket Islands. Ní dóigh liom
go bhfuil an focal sin ag an Athair Ó Laoghaire, as Flann O’Brien would say.
go bhfuil an focal sin ag an Athair Ó Laoghaire, as Flann O’Brien would say.
January 2, 2026 at 9:37 AM
A frankly incredible claim in Edgeworth’s The Absentee that ortolans can be found on the Blasket Islands. Ní dóigh liom
go bhfuil an focal sin ag an Athair Ó Laoghaire, as Flann O’Brien would say.
go bhfuil an focal sin ag an Athair Ó Laoghaire, as Flann O’Brien would say.
‘Ah, this is surely the lake of the Arabian tale, where the enchanted fish were, of the situation of which it appeared so incredible to the Sultan and his Vizier that they should be ignorant, it being but a short distance from the capital’ (Walter Scott on his visit to Lough Bray).
January 2, 2026 at 7:33 AM
‘Ah, this is surely the lake of the Arabian tale, where the enchanted fish were, of the situation of which it appeared so incredible to the Sultan and his Vizier that they should be ignorant, it being but a short distance from the capital’ (Walter Scott on his visit to Lough Bray).
Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth in 1825 on his adventures in Co. Wicklow and local perceptions of the tribe of poets.
January 1, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth in 1825 on his adventures in Co. Wicklow and local perceptions of the tribe of poets.
A poem from Dennis O’Driscoll, born OTD in 1954. Dennis once told me he would have liked to track down all remaining copies of his first book and bury them in a landfill.
January 1, 2026 at 8:21 AM
A poem from Dennis O’Driscoll, born OTD in 1954. Dennis once told me he would have liked to track down all remaining copies of his first book and bury them in a landfill.
Janet Mullarney, Panorama, Devil’s Glen, Wicklow.
December 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Janet Mullarney, Panorama, Devil’s Glen, Wicklow.
Shameless public indecency at this Aberdeen car park.
December 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Shameless public indecency at this Aberdeen car park.
Outstanding jasper standing stone and other egregious protuberances at Easter Aquorthies.
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Outstanding jasper standing stone and other egregious protuberances at Easter Aquorthies.
Shaggy, bumbling, tweedy elder… gets book on Tennyson for Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Shaggy, bumbling, tweedy elder… gets book on Tennyson for Christmas.
Poetry readings often went ahead in seventh-century Ireland without even the most basic form of risk assessment, sometimes with tragic consequences.
December 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Poetry readings often went ahead in seventh-century Ireland without even the most basic form of risk assessment, sometimes with tragic consequences.
A small elegy by Dennis O’Driscoll, who died OTD in 2012.
December 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A small elegy by Dennis O’Driscoll, who died OTD in 2012.
My great-aunt Edie Wheatley of Newtownmountkennedy has sadly died at the great age of 100.
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My great-aunt Edie Wheatley of Newtownmountkennedy has sadly died at the great age of 100.
Fleeting glimpse of the elusive Deeside tree cat.
December 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Fleeting glimpse of the elusive Deeside tree cat.
More Christmas playlists should be organised around the cosmic violence of Jésus accepte la souffrance, from Messiaen’s La nativité du seigneur, let me suggest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsa...
Messiaen: La nativité du Seigneur: 7. Jésus accepte la souffrance
YouTube video by Olivier Latry - Topic
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December 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
More Christmas playlists should be organised around the cosmic violence of Jésus accepte la souffrance, from Messiaen’s La nativité du seigneur, let me suggest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsa...
A copy of Edgeworth’s Tales of Fashionable Life travelled from Waterloo to Salamanca and Burgos, losing one owner on the battlefield along the way.
December 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A copy of Edgeworth’s Tales of Fashionable Life travelled from Waterloo to Salamanca and Burgos, losing one owner on the battlefield along the way.
The disappointments of reading. Underline, underline, thought the previous owner of my Washington Square.
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The disappointments of reading. Underline, underline, thought the previous owner of my Washington Square.
Christmas jigsaws.
December 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Christmas jigsaws.
I asked my daughter what these were and she said, her rabbit toy’s ’criminal aliases’.
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I asked my daughter what these were and she said, her rabbit toy’s ’criminal aliases’.
‘poetry zings on the lolling tongue’. Very sorry to hear that Chris Wallace-Crabbe has died. An endlessly urbane and affable bard.
December 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
‘poetry zings on the lolling tongue’. Very sorry to hear that Chris Wallace-Crabbe has died. An endlessly urbane and affable bard.
No parking at all at all.
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
No parking at all at all.
Apparition inouïe de Pierre Reverdy ici au nord de l’Écosse.
December 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Apparition inouïe de Pierre Reverdy ici au nord de l’Écosse.
Close reading as critical proctology (Denis Donoghue on Henry James).
December 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Close reading as critical proctology (Denis Donoghue on Henry James).
The ever-twinkly-eyed Jessica the cat.
December 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The ever-twinkly-eyed Jessica the cat.
John Carey, for long years Eng Lit’s man on the Clapham omnibus, has died.
December 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
John Carey, for long years Eng Lit’s man on the Clapham omnibus, has died.