Category: Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason

It’s a dull early summer evening in suburban Dublin.  I’m in my favourite room – the back garden; having just emerged from my second favourite room – the greenhouse. The flowers on the apple, pear and plum trees have been replaced with…

Did you know that Charles Darwin had a go at eating owl? While at Cambridge University he was a member of the “Gourmet Club,” which met once a week to eat animals not often found on menus. He found the old brown owl ‘indescribable’.…

Next time you visit that fine institution that never succumbed to the vagaries of fashion: the Natural History Museum on Dublin’s Merrion Square – and please do so very soon – take a look at the display cabinets that contain the marine…

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason We can’t separate literature and music from history; they go hand in hand. History is memoir, history records the mistakes. History is in our back yards, our photo albums, and our personal memories. Some say that the victors…

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason We can’t separate literature and music from history; they go hand in hand. History is memoir, history records the mistakes. History is in our back yards, our photo albums, and our personal memories. Some say that the victors…