“Not all who wander are lost” Another car bumper sticker that seems pertinent to the Cockburn and Poole travels of late.  Quentin is safely back in Australia, whilst Cecil is recovering from a few days on the Outer Banks of North Carolina – days of great surf, sun and sand, a wonderful 90 minute night-time electrical storm serious over-eating and drinking, and far too little sleep.

Passive Complicity had great pleasure in bringing Tarquin O’Flaherty’s five part series on The Catalpa Affair.  This story linked Irish freedom fighters/terrorists (particularly John Boyle O’Reilly (1844-1890)) of the 1840’s and 50’s with Australia the USA and the British Government.  Start this series here and then scroll up through the blogs.  They were published daily from  Monday 19th through to Friday 23 August.  You may also like to go back to The Cry of the Dreamer, O’Rielly’s poem published on 18 August

Our Australian Election Coverage continued with Paddy 0′Cearmada giving us three insightful articles Computer says no (19 August 2013),  ‘He who is not busy being born is busy dying’ (21 August 2013), and  ‘Does this guy ever shut up?’ (24 August 2013).  They can be read in the Election 2013 tab, along with today’s offering ‘Suspended Hostilities’

We offer this reprint of our very first “Mine Tinket” (below) by way of compensation for the lack of a Musical Dispatch from the Front this week.  The Dispatch will be back next Saturday.

For Poetry Sunday our poetry editor, Ira Maine comments Here is Yeats, up to his armpits in Celtic Mythology” with The song of wandering Aengus WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.

Regards
Cecil Poole