‘Lost in the world’s wood / … under naked boughs / The frost comes to barb your broken vows’ – RS Thomas (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick Comerford Christmas is not a season of 12 days, despite the popular Christmas song. Christmas is a 40-day season that lasts from Christmas Day (25 December) to Candlemas or the Feast of the Presentation (2 February). Throughout the 40 days of this Christmas Season, I am reflecting in these ways: 1, Reflecting on a seasonal or appropriate poem; 2, a…

Loretta Brennan Glucksman, one of New York’s most prominent benefactors, will be honored with the first Tom Moran Business to Arts Leadership Award at Origin Theatre Company's annual Spring Gala on May 20.

(1970) practice day at Hales Corners Speedway. closed in 2003.. Menards occupies this area today. via Patrick Heaney

'Patrick Scott - Golden Boy', a documentary broadcast in the 'Arts Lives' series, explored the life and work of the artist. In this extract the poet Seamus Heaney visits Patrick Scott in his home.

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On July 5, 1880, a 23 year old George Bernard Shaw quit his day job at the telephone company to become a full time writer. The result is a body of work

There were only 17 episodes of The Prisoner - but they were enough to create a cult and forever typecast Patrick McGoohan, who has died aged 80.

Picture above: Ian Hendry + Patrick Macnee, The Avengers [1961]. Photograph by ABC. Television. Every so now and then a […]

‘Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?’ (Luke 24: 38) … a tribute to the poet Seamus Heaney on a gable end on Richmond Street in Portobello, Dublin, ‘Don’t be afraid’ (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick Comerford This has been a busy Easter, and, although the holiday weekend is over, the Easter celebrations continue in the Church Calendar. Throughout this week, my morning reflections each day include the daily Gospel reading, the prayer in the USPG prayer diary…

by Mark Gerson modern bromide print June 1996 © Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London