I think there are any number of images I could have used for what has happened to my Call of the Siren since the fall. An airplane nose-diving into the ocean … a car on fire … an empty cup … a bare tree in the dead of winter … an opera singer coughing … Continue reading The Siren with laryngitis
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Breathing with a Willow
"Sometimes life needs time to catch up with me, and I need time to catch up with my life" -- so says Janet Sunderland in one of her latest WP blog posts. She's been posting some very nice auto-biographical insights, and you should check her out. I'm happy to reblog her on Call of the … Continue reading Breathing with a Willow
Maps of Dublin, old Speed’s map reveals history of Dublin.
Arran Henderson gives us the next best thing to a time machine in this post, my friends. He also supplies surprising etymological details too: How could one of my favorite cities ever have been named after muddy water? I had no idea. My favorite city, and my favorite bluesman, too! Enjoy…
Old maps of Dublin: Viking & Medieval Dublin to the early modern era. 1,200 years of change.
The image below is the first known image of Ireland. It was drawn as part of a larger map, around 200AD, by the legendary Ptolemy, often called the Father of Geography. Culturally speaking, Ptolemy was Greek, but he was born and lived in Alexandria in Egypt, which by his era had fallen under Roman rule.
As a Dubliner, it’s very tempting for me to suppose or imagine the name “Eblana” -appearing on the east coast of Ptolemy’s Ireland- represents my own city. But no, sadly Eblana is almost certainly not Dublin. (Sniff). Dublin, as city at least, simply did not exist in 200AD. Modern scholarship suggests that Eblana may instead well be Loughskinny, now a small town further north (in the Fingal area) since this was an important and attested trading post in…
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