by Brendan Jackson | Mar 8, 2017 | Notes
Highways and Byways A single walk in straight line The sea is calm enough, a little bit of breeze but not the kind of blaster to blow the cod inshore. He’s been here since 6.30am and now it’s early afternoon. I’ve had a few nibbles, nothing much, he says, but I really...
by Brendan Jackson | Mar 5, 2016 | Notes
A Yearning For Some Place Else In Gaelic, the surname Quigley comes from Ó Coigligh, meaning ‘unkempt hair’ – or in some varieties ‘an untidy person’. It originates in County Mayo, where the Quigleys managed to stay long after the Norman Invasion. They were less...
by Brendan Jackson | Nov 18, 2015 | Notes
At the Tbilisi airport the passport control officer looks carefully through my documents. She can see there are several entry and exit stamps for Georgia over this last year. She makes polite enquiries. You have been here many times. Do you like Georgia? May I ask...
by Brendan Jackson | Jun 24, 2024 | Viewpoint
Blagaj Tekke, Bosnia-Herzegovina In the unrelenting heat of the Bosnian summer the well-spring of the river Buna emerges from a cave at the feet of vertical limestone cliffs some 200 metres high, gathers in calm pool then flows over some man-made terraces, before...
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