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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Peter Conners' "White Hand Society": Book Review

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The title refers to a drinking club of two Timothy Leary started at Harvard, around 1960. It never amounted to much, but Peter Conners uses...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Oona Frawley's "Memory Ireland: History & Modernity": Book Review

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This first of four volumes explores the replacement of chronological historiography with a more fluid, less rigid approach that investigates...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

"Fodor's Ireland 2011": Book Review

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Certainly a vibrantly hued presentation of images and lots of words, aimed at the comfortable traveler who has money to spend but in this ve...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Anne Bancroft's "The Buddha Speaks": Book Review

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Many books endure by telling you about the Buddha, but this is one of the few telling you in his own words. Recorded by his followers, these...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Reginald A Ray's "Tibetan Buddhist Reader": Review

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This anthology compiles sayings of over two dozen lamas, past and present. Following the naturally emerging path into Buddhist practice, Reg...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Joe Humphreys' "God's Enterpreneurs: How Irish Missionaries Tried to Change the World": Book Review

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A century of endeavor by Irish missionary priests, brothers, and sisters ebbs away. Their average age over seventy, their reticence leading ...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Tony Bailie's "Ecopunks": Book Review

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This novel combines the story of a German eco-activist, a Japanese maverick archeologist, and an Irish acid casualty-mystic. In 225 pages,...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Sandow Birk & Marcus Sanders' "Dante's Purgatorio: Book Review

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This follows the pair's illustrated, surfer-Californian speak, pop culture-enriched version of Dante's inferno. That dragged us down...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Sandow Birk & Marcus Sanders' "Dante's Inferno": Book Review.

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As a native Angeleno, reading about my hometown depicted as hell the week the temperature in my neighborhood hit 118 (the municipal thermome...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Choinne dhá pionta go céilí

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Fhreastail Léna agus mé go céilí ómós a thabhairt do Pháidín Dé Domhnaigh seo caite. Bhí lá bréithe é aice. Thiomaint muid go teach tábhairn...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Robert Thurman's "Inner Revolution": Book Review

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Thurman's easy to fault and easy to forgive. As he'll remind you, he's the first Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained from America; he...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Robert Thurman's "Why the Dalai Lama Matters": Book Review

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"Tired of feeling that Tibet is doomed," friend for 45 years of the Dalai Lama, leading scholar and earnest activist, Thurman expl...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

John B. & Elizabeth A. Roberts' "Freeing Tibet": Book Review

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Credit Allen Ginsberg! His Beat quest crossed, in New Jersey, with Geshe Wangyal's Kalmyk refugees who founded the first Tibetan Buddhis...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Kurt Andersen's "Heyday": Book Review

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1848: "What kind of fool celebrates the vanquishing of Mexicans at ten and the freedom of the French at midnight?" (148) "An ...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Ag dul go hIarsmalann na gContae

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Chuaigh Léna agus mé go hIarsmalann na gContae inné. Choniac muid saothair ealaíne éagsúlaí ar ndóigh. D'iarr beirt uainn ag dul amach l...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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