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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E09 – Hands

Paul January 11, 2021

How often have we praised someone’s handiwork? It could be a fine painting, a patchwork quilt, the way they play Chopin’s etudes or the way they pitch a tent. Aristotle praised the hand as “the instrument for instruments” – the hand that…

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E08 – A tandem of post-modernism on the R827

Paul January 6, 2021

A tandem of post-modernism on the R827 – the young James Joyce and Flann O’Brien gadding about Blackrock If you were a municipal historian you might take a passing interest in what de Selby has to say on the subject of roads,…

COVID-19 effects on European wide initiatives

Paul December 23, 2020

In this programme Sally Galiana talks to three experts about the impact Covid-19 has had/is having on the many EU partnership projects that take place across the EU every year, particularly Erasmus +. We examine how Irish projects have been affected and…

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E07 – Coming Home

Paul December 17, 2020

We’ve all been spending a whole lot more time at home in recent months. In many ways, our homes may have become our own small country. When we look at the big world picture, we are probably grateful if we have a…

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E06 – Bold Botanists

Paul December 15, 2020

It’s a dull early summer evening in suburban Dublin. I’m in my favourite room – the back garden; having just emerged from my second favourite room – the greenhouse. The flowers on the apple, pear and plum trees have been replaced with…

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E05 – The Birds

Paul December 15, 2020

Did you know that Charles Darwin had a go at eating owl? While at Cambridge University he was a member of the “Gourmet Club,” which met once a week to eat animals not often found on menus. He found the old brown owl ‘indescribable’.…

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E04 – Gentlemen Dredgers

Paul December 15, 2020

Next time you visit that fine institution that never succumbed to the vagaries of fashion: the Natural History Museum on Dublin’s Merrion Square – and please do so very soon – take a look at the display cabinets that contain the marine…

Inishowen resident, Jim Doherty on Brexit

Paul December 14, 2020

Inishowen resident Jim Doherty discusses the impact of a hard Brexit on border communities, businesses, and people who travel across the border each day for work. Jim lives in Donegal but works as an Associate Lecturer in Creative Media & Journalism at…

Border resident, Paul Hayes on Brexit

Paul December 9, 2020

Paul Hayes, Education Coordinator, with the Northside Partnership, lives outside Newry in County Armagh and commutes to Dublin for work. He talks about how Brexit creates anxiety in this area and how his normal life is about constantly crossing the border. As…

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E02 – The Wilderness Years

Paul December 4, 2020

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason We can’t separate literature and music from history; they go hand in hand. History is memoir, history records the mistakes. History is in our back yards, our photo albums, and our personal memories. Some say that the victors…

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E01 – The Early Years

Paul December 4, 2020

Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason We can’t separate literature and music from history; they go hand in hand. History is memoir, history records the mistakes. History is in our back yards, our photo albums, and our personal memories. Some say that the victors…

Michael Fleming on Brexit impact on Agriculture

Paul November 30, 2020

Donie Tarrant speaks to Irish Farmers Association (I.F.A) member and former chairperson of the forestry division, Michael Fleming. Michael explains how Brexit is going to effect every household and every county in Ireland. He explains how our agricultural exports to Britain and…

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