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Tom Rowley

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  • Old election posters can get a second wind - as my 13 years with hardy Wee Gerry prove

    Nov 23, 2024 | independent.ie | Tom Rowley

    I thought great, what’s wrong with that? It would have been open season for poster hunters like myself. And lo, it has come to pass that right in the middle of the election campaign Storm Bert arrived to give posters and hoardings a right walloping. Stray posters should be ripe for the picking. I’ve always enjoyed collecting election posters that have broken free from their ties and are snagged in hedges, cartwheeling across open ground or floating in on the tide.

  • Tom Rowley: Shuffle off this mortal coil? Not a chance until Sam returns to Mayo

    Nov 9, 2024 | independent.ie | warm Kathleen Watkins |Tom Rowley

    Now that I’ve entered my 70s, I’m becoming increasingly obsessed with reading RIP.ieA few weeks ago, I came back home, opened the front door of our bungalow in Blackrock, Co Louth, and the big blue balloon with the silver numbers on it veered towards me. For the previous two weeks it had clung to the ceiling in the hallway, daily losing energy and gradually becoming craggy.

  • Tom Rowley: How Woodbine Willie’s message of kindness endured beyond the battlefield

    Aug 17, 2024 | independent.ie | Tom Rowley

    World War I chaplain with Irish heritage showed compassion in the midst of horrorA couple of years back, I took advantage of National Heritage Week to drop in to one of Dublin’s oldest, smallest and most iconic churches, St Doulagh’s, just off the Malahide Road, for a quick gander. From the road, it looks a bit like a small medieval castle with its short and broad battlement tower, steep stone roof and thick walls.

  • An ode to hurling, the unique, ferocious ballet that runs deep in Irish veins

    Jul 20, 2024 | independent.ie | Tom Rowley

    Watching how people who have never seen a live game before react to it is fascinatingEven from a distance I could sense the man was uneasy. Just a few minutes earlier he had ushered his wife and three young boys into the pub and been seated at a table. Close by on a large TV screen the 2013 All-Ireland hurling final replay between Cork and Clare — the same counties that will battle it out in Croke Park today — had just started at a hectic pace, both teams were going at each other hell for leather.

  • Things can only get Butter

    Jun 9, 2024 | tomrowley.substack.com | Tom Rowley

    Summer is finally here and what better time to look at the remarkable rise and rise of the English wine scene. Henry Jeffreys will take us through the quirky characters behind what is now a multi-million-pound industry with quality to rival Champagne. Backstory summer sessions — the return of our popular music nights at the bookshop.

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