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Personalizing Language
This week, adding onto last week’s release about my work as a translator, I’m discussing my view on how language ought to be personalized. Read more
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The Potential of America
I am certainly not an expert on the American Revolution, though I am a recipient of its fruits, my life one small result of its effects. The revolution echoed a time in our past when people of all classes in thirteen of the British colonies along the East Coast took up arms to defend what Read more
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Living Memory
The Header Image on this Week’s Post is of the RMS Carmania, which carried my great-grandfather to America in April 1914. A few weeks ago, when I visited Mount Carmel Bluffs and the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (known more commonly as the BVMs) in Dubuque, Iowa I was Read more
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How Reading James Joyce Prepared Me for my Doctorate
Last Friday was the annual commemoration of Bloomsday. 16 June 1904 was the date when all of the action in James Joyce’s 1922 episodic novel Ulysses takes place. Bloomsday is named for the main character, the sometimes hapless Leopold Bloom who fits perfectly into the wider scope of Irish main characters who may want things to go Read more
Wednesday Blog by Seán Thomas Kane 