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Nov 21, 2024 | 
independent.ie | John Connell
Just SayingJohn Connell was an investigative journalist before becoming an author, playwright and mental health advocate. He’s also a farmer, and lives in Longford with his wife and son. His book ‘Twelve Sheep’, published by Atlantic, has been shortlisted in the non-fiction category at the An Post Irish Book Awards. My parents had both come from farms, but we started farming when I was about five. We got three cows, and that started the whole journey.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Jia Guo |John Connell |Chris Gibson
AbstractThe concept of the ‘tourist pose’ is developed to examine the feminised aesthetic labour involved in ‘post-selfie’ tourist self-portraiture for social media consumption, and its role in vernacular geographies of tourist visitation. We elaborate on what constitutes the tourist pose, its linkage to distinctive cultural groups and practices, and altered tourism geographies.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
lithub.com | John Connell
We try and live simply but the world is complex. Article continues after advertisementIt has always been this way. It is early autumn and I am standing in the sheep shed of our farm. Before me stand twelve sheep. They are, to be precise, twelve hoggets, the name we give to maiden females. These twelve ladies are mine. I have bought them from my parents with the money I earned from my words, from my books. I am a shepherd for the first time in my life.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | John Connell
The Pacific is immersed in a ‘polycrisis’. Island states are still rebounding from the economic and social exigencies of COVID-19. The geopolitics of Chinese involvement in the region, described as the new ‘Great Game’, is heating up. Bougainville’s independence from Papua New Guinea is a possibility. And, most recently, violence engulfed and divided New Caledonia. New Caledonia is formally a ‘collectivity of overseas France’.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
nacleanenergy.com | John Connell
Battery shipping delays and supply-chain shortages can shut down your company, hurt your bottom line and reputation, and harm your customers’ operations. This was a key lesson learned during COVID and, more recently, the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse. If you’re powered by or sell batteries, you need a reliable supply chain to keep a tight schedule — or you can’t deliver. And no matter what, you still have fixed labor costs and overhead.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | John Connell
Three years ago I set out on a mission. I wanted to farm 12 sheep on our family farm and, in the process, learn about life along the way. It was a sojourn into the spiritus mundi. The sheep were a way for me to gain a foothold in a search that had taken me across the world in recent years. I was looking for the meaning of life. It started in a different phase. I had completed a book and was suffering from what my wife called burnout. I called it soul tiredness.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
independent.ie | John Connell
His No.1 bestselling memoir, The Cow Book, was published in March 2018, with The Running Book and The Stream Of Everything completing his Longford trilogy. Connell’s latest book, Twelve Sheep: Life Lessons From A Lambing Season, was published in April. The 37-year-old is married to Vivian and they have a son, Ted, aged 15 months.My mam and dad were both entrepreneurs. My mother has a Montessori school and daycare centre beside the farm.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Tim Elliott |Brook Turner |John Connell
We're sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We're working to restore it. Please try again later. Dismiss Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer Have the TV streamers been spying on Good Weekend? Because one recent morning, at the train station, I stood staring vacantly at an ad across the tracks before realising it was spruiking a new TV series, Hotel Cocaine. I was on my way to work to put the finishing touches to today's cover story, which is about ... cocaine. Spooky, hey?
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | John Connell
Save It is early autumn and I am standing in the sheep shed of our farm. Before me stand 12 sheep. They are 12 hoggets, the name we give to maiden females. These 12 ladies are mine. I have bought them from my parents with the money I earned from my words, from my books. I am a shepherd for the first time in my life. I have bought the 12 animals for many reasons. Perhaps the one, the most important, is that they are a stake in the future but sheep also challenge you to live in the now.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | John Connell
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It is early autumn and I am standing in the sheep shed of our farm. Before me stand 12 sheep. They are 12 hoggets, the name we give to maiden females. These 12 ladies are mine. I have bought them from my parents with the money I earned from my words, from my books. I am a shepherd for the first time in my life. I have bought the 12 animals for many reasons.
