Louis Stewart – She Moved Through the Fair. Parts of She Moved Through the Fair were first first collected by Herbert Hughes in Donegal in early 1900s. Herbert Hughes was a composer, music critic and collector and he included She Moved through the fair in Hughes Irish Country songs in 1909. It’s played here by…
It’s 7 years since we Repealed the 8th, but for me, the big day of celebration is the 26th. It was my first time doing tally at a count centre and the absolute overwhelm when the ballots started tumbling out of the boxes – we could see all the hundreds and thousands of “yes” votes….
One of the many things I’ve learned this year is to modify my behaviour to appease the ChatGPT gods. It has been an invaluable tool – I used it to learn Adobe Premier Pro to edit a short film and in a storytelling module, I used ChatGPT prompts to write a story, develop characters, analyse plot…
Immersive Media Production. That’s the degree I’ve immersed myself in (see what I did there?!) And one year on, I’m no closer to knowing what it is. But that’s ok, because neither does anyone else. It seems to be a catchall phrase for … stuff. Really exciting, cutting-edge technology stuff. Stuff I’d never heard of…
With a non-verbal child you become accustomed to watching out for signs. Sé feels pain the same as everybody else, but he doesn’t know how to express it, so we watch him and mind him and do our best. Right now, he’s got something brewing. How do I know? Because he’s being nice and helpful….
Back from the summer holidays, back from Brussels, back to school for the kids, back to college for me & the husband. The return from my annual trip to Brussels heralds the end of the summer and the start of the new school year. I had great plans for the summer – projects to complete,…
I am a great one for not seeing the woods for the trees. I remember feeding my firstborn hour after hour every night, reading about cluster feeding and thinking, “Jesus, I’m so lucky my baby doesn’t cluster feed all night long”. I’m thinking this while cluster feeding, all night long, for months on end. My…
I had great plans for a month to myself between finishing college and the first of the kids finishing up school for the summer. However, as soon as I handed in that last assignment, all the stuff I’ve been putting off all year came home to roost, and I have been running around like a…
I’m not really a poetry person – I could never get into the poetry I studied in school, I found most of it impenetrable and boring. But I’ve loved Pam Ayers and, thanks to her, I’ve always remembered to Look After me Teeth. I also have a favourite Haiku: A Haiku about being an…
The last assignment has been submitted and so, just like that, year one is done. It’s been a tough year, learning how to balance the dramas of family life with my precarious health, full-time college, keeping the house up and running and the family fed, but it’s been great too. I’ve had so much…