Capital Problems March 19, 2013
Posted by Beachcombing in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval
Capital cities should represent a country. They should be the head that directs and controls: unless you live in a properly federal society and there are none of those left. But what happens when capitals come to outweigh and dominate the country that they stand in? Take an example from close to this blogger’s home. [...]
The Missing Autobiography of Mario Esposito October 28, 2012
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary, Medieval
Mario Esposito (obit 1975) was a talented medievalist born to an Italian family in that glittering Dublin of Joyce, Yeats and Beckett. ME got involved with the struggle for Irish independence, was a keen mountaineer, but above all published on Irish manuscripts. His first academic article was written when he was 18, a rather misinformed [...]
Fairy Investigation Society November 14, 2011
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
***This post is dedicated to Invisible*** Beachcombing has a bit of a chip on his shoulder about Wikipedia. But every so often there are pages there that are the closest we come to ‘real knowledge’. Take the Fairy Investigation Society that Beach has been looking into for the last couple of days – since, in [...]
