The Sigla Blog

Perhaps it had something to with the spirit of the new year and resolutions, but after watching RTE’s excellent Arts Lives programme, Flann O’Brien - The Lives of Brian, I ruefully remarked to the other half about how I wished my spoken Irish wasn’t so patchy. Flann, who not only wrote many of his Cruiskeen […]

If, like many people, you plan on putting your feet up tomorrow and reading the papers, you have even more reason to coerce your menfolk into running the hoover around and washing some clothes. Tomorrow January 6th - as mentioned last year - is Nollaig na mBan or Women’s Christmas. Celebrated chiefly in Ireland and […]

My younger bro sent me this earlier, reminding me that before he actually got a REAL domino set, we used to pilfer my Dad’s substantial tape collection and build massive domino trails all around the house. After hours of setting up, we’d make the folks watch the few minutes of pay off. Great fun […]

Happy 07 to everyone and hopefully Christmas was restful and fun or insane and forgettable, depending on what you were after.
I’m lazily trying to get back into a routine (I’ve watched far too many old films and have not yet been to the sales) so it’s digest posting of a few bits and pieces for […]