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Comment on Remodeling a City’s ‘Dirty’ Jail by Doug Cumming

Doug Cumming — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 18:02:07 +0000

Where’s the Soundslide? It seems to be down.

Comment on Saint Seamus the Poet by Into Ireland | Docs and musings

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Comment on Saint Seamus the Poet by pattywryle

pattywryle — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:21:21 +0000

Doug, thank you for this beautiful, sensory-rich blog of your experience now in Ireland and then..at Harvard. I like that he loved. I love his villanelle for the anniversary. His writing humbles my own. Happy travels! Peace, Patty

Comment on Saint Seamus the Poet by Joe and Emily

Joe and Emily — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:14:19 +0000

What a delicious dessert wrapping up your feast of blogs. We remember when you hobnobbed at
Harvard with the barrrrd himself. Yr. Fans, The A .P.’s

Comment on Only 137 Wild Bees by Kimberley Lynne

Kimberley Lynne — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:30:01 +0000

Yes, if only Yeats had Tweeted . . . Many interpretations of his gravestone self-epitaph, part of one of his last poems, Under Ben Bulben, argue what “cold eye” on life and death can mean. He’s no doubt wrestling with his temporality, was ill, cranky and close to the end. William F. Buckley thought Yeats was referring to how Medieval gatekeepers checked people for plague, but in reading Ben Bulben, I was struck how WBY again references his Sligo connections (“an ancestor was a rector” in the Drumcliff churchyard) and how he seems to want to lie in a place where he belonged. I was also reminded of the folklore story he chronicled of the salmon Michael who evades death and then longs for it. I hope WBY had reached a place where he could consider the exit from his body with a cool distance: go ahead, horseman death, do your best, I have lived.

Comment on [The Untitled Audience Reflection] by Kimberley Lynne

Kimberley Lynne — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:44:45 +0000

That town hall sounds fantastic. And compelling idea, that you impact your audience by being yourself.

Comment on Dublin Snapshots by aviswaring@aol.com

aviswaring@aol.com — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:20:33 +0000

Dear Libby and Doug, You are doing a great job for the students and for your family here. I am getting physical therapy for my back. Much improved. More later. A

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Comment on Only 137 Wild Bees by Doug Cumming

Doug Cumming — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 04:52:28 +0000

If only Yeats had been forced to compress his meaning into 140 characters. Well, there’s the gravestone epitaph I hope we’ll see in Drumcliff churchyard this weekend. Nice compression, but what does casting a cold eye mean?

Comment on The Plantation history question by Joe and Emily

Joe and Emily — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:24:17 +0000

Prof. Doug,Sorry I can’t answer your questions about Plantation system easing Europe’s anxieties,
but I hope your students can get a grip on all that complex history. Will they come home wearing orange , to make a statement on the story. Anyway, the story assignments sound exciting.
Our news is that the FooterLLC is officially registered now in Pickens County, so your and Anne’s
shares will be legally transferred at the Meeting! Meanwhile, Sarah has agreed to be our “clan”
chief during the Indian=themed scavenger hunt, enlisting Wm. & DAniel for ideas& costumes.
Keep the Armagh story cooking! Love, Embo