John Arnold: Back to the future..thoughts from the summer of 2086
‘How do you mean -taking books to school? Did ye actually have real books made of paper in…
John Arnold: Danny Boy, Noreen Bawn… my picks for Ulster’s finest songs
I meet up with two good friends, Tommy and Jim, every five or six weeks – for a…
John Arnold: Fond memories of Jim… who answered SOS when I was born
Now in my 70th year, every now and then I try to remember what I first remember! That…
John Arnold: For peat’s sake… diversity is required for our energy needs
I’m not sure what year exactly we got our first television set – black and white of course.…
John Arnold: I miss milking and the herd… but I’m loving retirement too
After Mass of a Sunday, and at meetings and matches with the last two months, I’m being asked:…
A Cork dynasty ends, as last Devonshire ‘duke’ laid to rest
On Monday, April 3, in the year 1820, a marriage was ‘solemnised’ at Gretna Green in Scotland. The…
‘After 51 years, I wept as I milked my last cow on my Cork farm’
I have never actually read The Last September, the novel written by Elizabeth Bowen. I know it was…