Theme: History

Is a seal a fish?

We’ve often heard that none less than the Pope, or a pope, or the Bishop, or a bishop, decreed that seals were fish – not meat – opening a food…

Old Christmas Day

It’s been called one of the greatest short stories ever written: James Joyce‘s The Dead, set on The Feast of the Epiphany, opening as Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta,…