Your evening longread: Boris Johnson and playing the clown
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news. By Aoife Barry Tuesday 13 Apr 2021, 8:30 PM 2 hours ago 7,840 Views 12 Comments
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Image: Shutterstock/Alexandros Michailidis
EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday. And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.
We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.
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The older indigenous names for Croagh Patrick mountain may be lost, but it was named for the saint, “St Patrick’s Cone”, and became one of the largest Catholic pilgrimage sites. The mountain has many sacred associations and traditions that hint at its Pagan significance as a place connected with fertility, particularly the cairn near “St Patrick’s Bed” which at one time was visited by barren women; childless women would sleep here on the harvest festival, Lughnasagh Eve, in the hopes of becoming pregnant. Could this confrontation between the saint and a blackbird at the ancient sacred mountain be understood as the incoming patriarchal religion of Christianity superseding the native Paganism with its goddess-worship?
Your evening longread: The big business of celebrity pregnancy
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news. By Aoife Barry Friday 19 Feb 2021, 8:30 PM Feb 19th 2021, 8:30 PM 20,217 Views 2 Comments
EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.
And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.
We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.
The most obvious brand partners in this area are purveyors of pregnancy tests. Clearblue has worked with upward of 70 celebrities and influencers on endorsements of its products since 2013. First Response has sponsored pregnancy announcements, too, including ones by the singer Kelis a