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Australian Road Rider – “Ten Horses Around Australia: Oz on a Honda 125”
ARR Issue 187 Available now!
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Adventure Motorcycle Magazine – “Heading East on my Dad’s old GS”
This feature appeared in the Summer 2025 issue of Adventure Motorcycle Magazine. Reproduced here with kind permission of ADVMoto. I’d like to thank Carl at ADVMotoMag for running the story and for permission to repost it here. And Paul who edited the piece so well. This was my first print article and something I’ll…
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Not all Rebels ride, but all riders are Rebels: The Honda Rebel 500 and the rebel in all of us
I’m going out with a biker. A new biker – she’s just bought her first bike, a 2021 Honda CMX500. Aka the “Rebel”. It’s a wonderful thing to share your passion with someone, even if – as in the case of motorbikes – that passion comes with a hefty price tag and a more-than-marginal…
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The rise of the Irish alt-right: how saints and scholars finally lost their minds
The rise of the Irish alt-right: how saints and scholars finally lost their minds – Originally Published: Sligo, February 2023 I’m home, and I’m sad. It’s been a little over a month, and usually by now I’d be someplace else. January last I was in a cold, quiet Cordoba. January before I was in Marseille;…
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No Myths, No Ornaments
No myths, no ornaments – Originally Published: Sligo, December 2022 Below is an annotated and sourced transcript of Our Last Day at the Centre of the World in PDF format. For additional notes on the film, skip to ‘Notes’ in the text below. our-last-day-at-the-centre-of-the-worldDownload nuestro-ultimo-dia-en-el-centro-del-mundoDownload Another year. It seems like yesterday that I finished…
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On the Táin
On the Táin | Intro and Transcript – Originally Published: Sligo, November 2022 It’s a story I grew up knowing. I can’t be sure when I was first told it, but I can’t remember not knowing I was named after a great Celtic warrior, a fact on which I do remember incessantly informing all the…
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Following Francisco
Following Francisco Transcript – Originally Published: Sligo, July 2022 This is the transcript for the accompanying video tracing the steps of Francisco De Cuellar in County Sligo and Leitrim. Of course, this is just one possible route the Spaniard may have taken, derived from his description of the landscape and a fair amount of deduction.…
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El Desierto de Tabernas – the Desert of Legends
El Desierto de Tabernas – the Desert of Legends – Originally Published: Cordoba, May 2022 “No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees”. Face to face now. Goat-meat and ripe figs upon his breath. Gentle warmth off his dark, neatly bearded face, cool light in his searching blue eyes. They search the…
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I’m afraid of Americans. And their coffee.
I’m Afraid of Americans…and their coffee – Originally Published: Cordoba, May 2022 Too long have we waited for an unOrdinaryWorld blog post I hear you cry. Believe me dear ones, I share your pain. Please forgive my radio silence, I promise it was not without cause. So settle in, pour yourself a sturdy drink, and…
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Something has changed
Semana Santa in Córdoba – Originally Published: Cordoba, April 2022 Evening. Shadows scale the ancient city walls, creeping upwards; blue silhouettes stretching across the warm granite. The first warm evening of the year tastes of pollen and incense. Somewhere within the medina a procession is marching towards the Mezquita. Dull echoes of bass drums ricochet…