"I have — to quote the U.S. poet Keith S. Wilson — become a repentant defender of pigeons."
I spent much of the early months of this year shooing away the pigeons from our backyard.
I spent much of the last couple of weeks – not too much time, don't worry – sat under a white sheet trying to coax one, just one, to sit still on a velvet cushion and telling my children to go away.
Why the change of heart? I have – to quote the U.S. poet Keith S. Wilson – become a repentant defender of pigeons.
If you haven't read his poem, "I Find Myself Defending Pigeons", check it out. "I am in that tradition of trying to find beauty and love and hope in a world, imperialistic and capitalistic, that demands of us everything but that," he says.
Most are weapons, taken as souvenirs of colonial wars, said Olusegun Morakinyo, Africologist and former visiting scholar at the TCD.
Some are turning to longer, less frequent, classes – but there’s a pedagogical trade-off, says UCD lecturer Keith Wilson.
"As a foreigner, I find Dublin Bay — and the relationship Dubliners have with it — really fascinating."
Dublin councillors were looking at Limerick as a model for regeneration. But there’s disquiet there now, with concerns about transparency, oversight, and control over development.
