I love your facinating stories of talented relatives, your artistic literary lineage is well and truly established. Who will we be introduced to next? Can't wait !!
So good to have another meritorious account from you and your very able ex priest great uncle, despite what Virginia Wolfe said was a good writer and able guy. I wonder why he kept quiet about his siblings for so long. I can see something of a family resemblance to you. I did not know about TS. Elliot's wife Vivienne and I still can't decide whether to admire him or not but I think his poetry is good We were told @ school he had a personal problem but Eddy Bigger our English teacher didn't say what it was so he, Elliot decided to become a religious Anglican now I don't know if he wrote poetry before. So this shows that your great uncle like yourself had fine literary ability It would be good to know more of his Galway activities, perhaps he moved to London because of them. I'm impressed by the liberal stance of the Church of Ireland Gazzette
He was banished by his own family, and wanted to hide this from Brigid, who had no idea he had a whole family back in Ireland, until she met my father. T.S. Eliot is one of my favourite poets in the world. Who is Eddy Bigger- your English teacher? Oh I see. He didn't like Ireland, the CHurch, the moral weight of the Church, so he fled. He seemed to have had a lot of interesting connections to the Celtic Twlighlight people. I wonder if he ever met WB Yeats .
There is definitely a harmony, a resonance, and something more to the choices of poetry that don't just describe, but also bring to a cross roads of possibility the prose.
It is one of my favourite poems ever, loved it before I ever really knew of my cousin working for him/ falling for him. I wish I could find her memoirs. Everyone is gone now, nobody to ask. I'll have to tune into the ancestral realms and ask some questions. Yes the extracts from the Lovesong are meant to echo what I'm writing about. Thank you as always.
I love your facinating stories of talented relatives, your artistic literary lineage is well and truly established. Who will we be introduced to next? Can't wait !!
So good to have another meritorious account from you and your very able ex priest great uncle, despite what Virginia Wolfe said was a good writer and able guy. I wonder why he kept quiet about his siblings for so long. I can see something of a family resemblance to you. I did not know about TS. Elliot's wife Vivienne and I still can't decide whether to admire him or not but I think his poetry is good We were told @ school he had a personal problem but Eddy Bigger our English teacher didn't say what it was so he, Elliot decided to become a religious Anglican now I don't know if he wrote poetry before. So this shows that your great uncle like yourself had fine literary ability It would be good to know more of his Galway activities, perhaps he moved to London because of them. I'm impressed by the liberal stance of the Church of Ireland Gazzette
He was banished by his own family, and wanted to hide this from Brigid, who had no idea he had a whole family back in Ireland, until she met my father. T.S. Eliot is one of my favourite poets in the world. Who is Eddy Bigger- your English teacher? Oh I see. He didn't like Ireland, the CHurch, the moral weight of the Church, so he fled. He seemed to have had a lot of interesting connections to the Celtic Twlighlight people. I wonder if he ever met WB Yeats .
Wonderful piece.
There is definitely a harmony, a resonance, and something more to the choices of poetry that don't just describe, but also bring to a cross roads of possibility the prose.
What is this human condition.
One can glimpse it and yet never explain it.
The weave that flows through history.
It is one of my favourite poems ever, loved it before I ever really knew of my cousin working for him/ falling for him. I wish I could find her memoirs. Everyone is gone now, nobody to ask. I'll have to tune into the ancestral realms and ask some questions. Yes the extracts from the Lovesong are meant to echo what I'm writing about. Thank you as always.
Another wonderful substack, full of thought provoking creative strands. Go raibh maith agat Síofra. See you soon x
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This is lovely
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