Tag Archives: rory gallagher

columba: excuses for a scrimmage

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Dave

Literary larceny. It led to a few thousand dead. Every night Saint Columba would sneak off in the dark to indulge his secret lust: the lust for copying a rare manuscript of the Gospels that belonged to Finnian of Moville … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bardic Order, Battle of Saint Columba, Bede English Historian, Brude King of the Picts, Diarmuid High King Ireland, Finnian of Moville, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Madame Pickwick, rory gallagher, Saint Columba, Saint Columba Loch Ness Monster, Saint Columba of Iona | Leave a comment

lets drink to that

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dave

The narcissism of small differences. When religion meets politics the poetics of demagoguery can launch a thousand careers. Anti-Catholic sentiment in the New World was an almost original sin of the founding settlers. All that was missing was a blood … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alfred e. smith presidential candidate 1928, Christopher Hitchens, daniel okrent, david goldfield, Graham Greene, Howard Zinn, James Gillray, ken burns prohibition, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, michael sheldon, Prohibition period, rory gallagher, Thomas Nast, Voltaire | Leave a comment

getting your irish up: the bog trotters

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Dave

In the last few hundred years, dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes in an effort to dehumanize them and give some form of reasoning behind their oppression and general use . This is not unfamiliar to most Americans as … Continue reading →