Live at the Witch Trials

Ireland regularly produces more energy, from wind, than it needs at night.  95GWh is more than the increase that happens 5-7pm. This means t...

I think in the summer of 2026 lots of fundamental improvements in human lives will happen 1. Energy. Solar electricity will be plentiful eno...

How people show off, or signal status, changes over time. Nowadays eating in famous fancy restaurants and travelling are higher status than ...

When will Ireland have enough solar to power the country? Summer 2026 for small periods and Summer 2027 for most of the days. Solar output i...

Smart meter electricity plans in Ireland do not take into account how plentiful the wind and sunshine is. You have one time based rate that ...

Chaucer wrote ' This wenche thikke ... I wol nat lye' predating Sir-Mix-A-lot by about 600 years. ' This wenche thikke and wel ...

  'Here lies the body of Mary Lee;  Died at the age of a hundred and three.  For fifteen years she kept her virginity;  Not a bad record...

What was the first time someone became so immersed in a virtual world that they disassociated and felt like they were really there?  The ter...

  We should have audiobooks of the Irish books we make kids study on the Junior cert. I made a list here of Irish language audiobooks I thi...

I have moaned a lot about the lack of books with Irish and English text and Irish audio. But how much would it cost to fix this? An hour of ...

In 1989 a newspaper report said 'Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming tre...

The Irish sports commentator Jimmy Magee was famous for his encyclopedic memory of sports facts. And not just stories he would use during co...

I have noticed watching Ros na Rún has improved my Irish but how much could it really help? Ros na Rún has 82 episodes a series each about ...

 It feels like Ireland cannot do much to help Ukraine in its fight with Russia. But I think that we can by bribing Russian pilots to defect ...

We need a 3 meter high place to stand on. A 5km long lake. And a 2 meter tall line of lights. And here is why. How would you show the earth ...

An Béal Bocht   is considered one of the classics of literature from Ireland. And of the Irish language in particular. It is a satire of the...

  I discussed in my last post about how a book in 3 formats English, Irish and the Audio in Irish is a great way to learn the language. And...

My last post was about why we would want books in Irish and English that also had audio. This post is about how we can get them to people W...

You pass loads of clues everyday to the geography and history around you. And until recently I had not been paying attention. I made a map a...

The last post here was about how many words you would have to read in Irish to have seen a particular  number of unique words.  What books ...