Sea of Words Searching for Tethys Her thoughts carried her like the sea carries a boat Omnipresent yet unknown The waves battled the unspoken ocean of her thoughts. Gushing bellows of swirling whirlpools She felt the heavy breeze in her hair; the salt pierced her face So fragile were her ideas undiscovered Confronted with AuraContinue reading “Sea of Words”
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From the Republic of Conscience
In the memory of Seamus Heaney: A Human Rights poet and writer April 13, 1939 – August 30, 2013 from the Republic of Conscience I When I landed in the republic of conscienceit was so noiseless when the engines stoppedI could hear a curlew high above the runway. At immigration, the clerk was an old manwhoContinue reading “From the Republic of Conscience”
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Trá an Doilin, Maerl Beach in Carraroe
We recently did a modelling study on the sediment mobility of maerl in Galway bay, utilising coupled hydrodynamic-wave-sediment transport models. This is the final part of my PhD in maerl sediment dynamics. Sediment mobility in its simplest form is the percentage of time grains of a particular size are mobile during a tidal cycle (IdierContinue reading “Trá an Doilin, Maerl Beach in Carraroe”