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Articles with Ireland
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An Daingean • Photo by Craig (CC BY-SA 2.0)
What’s in a name?
Ireland is divided into four provinces and thirty-two counties, and these are further divided into some 60,000 townlands. Names lay thick upon this land.
Samuel Beckett Bridge, Dublin • Photo by Saad Chaudhry on Unsplash
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
A little over a week ago [in 2005], Thomas Friedman had two op-ed columns in The New York Times about the Irish economic miracle, sometimes called “the Celtic Tiger.”
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Can a skeptic pray?
When two pagan Irish princesses, daughters of King Laoghaire, asked Patrick about his God, he is said to have answered: “Our God is the God of all things, the God of the sky and earth, the God of sea and stream, the God of sun and moon, the God of the great high mountains and the deep glens, the God of heaven, in heaven and under heaven.”
Detail of a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image of the Crab Nebula • NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)
Wonders and portents
It is the morning of July 5, 1054 A.D. You wake to a thin crescent moon between the horns of Taurus the Bull, low in the eastern sky. And nearby — wonder of wonders — a brilliant new celestial object, apparently a star, but shining more brightly than any star you have ever seen, four times brighter than Venus, so bright that for the next several weeks it will be visible even in daylight.
Coumaknock, Mount Brandon • Photo by SteuveFE (CC BY 2.0)
In the mountain hollow
My newest book, “Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland’s Holy Mountain,” was launched here in Ireland the other evening, by (appropriately) Brandon Books, which — like me — makes its home near the base of the mountain.
The view from above the summit of Mount Brandon in Ireland • Photo by Berx22 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Early Irish surveyors cast long shadows
On the summit of Mount Brandon, near my summer home on Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula, is a square concrete pillar about 4 feet high.
The summit of Mount Brandon • Photo © Jodi Raymo
Our shifting senses on nature
Climbed Mount Brandon the other day. Ireland’s second-highest mountain. Named after Saint Brendan who had a hermitage on the summit in the 6th century.
Photo by Louis Vest (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Water everywhere — even in space
Years ago, when the big drill rig arrived here to dig our well, the operator jumped out of the cab and marched around with a forked twig, looking for the best place to drill.
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Modification part of balanced chain
Plant genetically modified, or GM, crops anywhere in Europe and in a trice you will have a crowd of protesters at your gate waving “Frankenfood” placards and lying down in front of tractors.