STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING – Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though. He will not see me stopping here, to watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer, to stop without a farmhouse near, between the woods and frozen lake, the darkest evening …

Sia – Cheap Thrills > Up with it girl, rock with it girl, show dem it girl, bounce with it girl, dance with it girl, get with it girl. Come on, come on, turn the radio on. It’s Friday night and it won’t be long. Gotta do my hair, put my makeup on. It’s Friday night and it won’t be …

WILLIAM MULREADY 1/2 – Best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes, he was an Irish genre painter. William Mulready (the pupil and brother-in-law of John Varley), he was born in Ennis, County Clare, but after six years its family moved to London, where he was accepted at the Royal Academy School. In 1802, he married Elizabeth (a landscape …

The Clonmacnoise monastic site, located on the banks of the River Shannon, and always conquers the heart of its visitors. Today, the site today consists of seven ruined churches and three high crosses, an cathedral and two round towers. At the end of the 9th century, the Vikings targeted these settlements. An Irish bishop, was the founder of this place …

Tom Lehrer– The Irish ballad > About a maid I’ll sing a song, sing rickety-tickety-tin, about a maid I’ll sing a song who didn’t have her family long, not only did she do them wrong, she did every one of them in, them in she did every one of them in. One morning in a fit of pique, sing rickety-tickety-tin, …

THE FISHERMAN, by William Butler Yeats > Although I can see him still, the freckled man who goes to a gray place on a hill, in gray Connemara clothes, at dawn to cast his flies. It’s long since I began to call up to the eyes, this wise and simple man. All day I’d looked in the face what I …

You can read this novel, is an partly epistolary novel written by Irish novelist Sydney Owenson. Is a romance set in Ireland, pages where you can find wild landscapes and ruins. The story involves a young Englishman, a kind of prodigal son who is banished to his aristocratic father’s Irish estates. In this setting and among these characters Horatio learns …

BENOZZO GOZZOLI 1/3 – Benozzo Gozzoli he was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, best known for a series of murals in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi depicting festive processions (in fresco-painting he used the methods of tempera), with fine attention to detail. The art of Gozzoli is pre-eminently attractive by its sense of what is rich, winning, lively and abundant in …