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“Down By The Salley Gardens”

This is a clip from the Other Voices New York City video in 2011. Gabriel Byrne and Martin Hayes perform “Down By The Salley Gardens,” the beloved poem by William Butler Yeats. Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white […]

“There Are No Bad Men Here” : JINDABYNE Mega Movie Page

I hiked McKitrick Canyon in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Far West Texas over the Easter/Passover/Spring Holiday of Your Choice weekend. It is a beautiful oasis in the middle of the desert mountains, very close to Mexico, with creeks and blooming cactus in the springtime, Texas madrone trees and […]

Draíocht: a film in the Irish language

Draíocht, draoidheacht. This Irish term, whose literal translation is (1) druidic art, druidism, (2) witchcraft, magic; charm, enchantment, is a ‘power’ or ‘talent’ attributed to the Tuatha Dé Danann in their ability to overcome the Fir Bolg, who preceded them in Ireland. Cf. Ir. draoitheach, ‘magician, wizard’; see also “druid”. […]

Spring Cleaning: Updates to the Website

It’s that time of year–time to dust and clean, open the windows, let the fresh air in! OK. Well, it is hard to do that to a website, but just in time for Spring, we have spruced things up a bit here at Byrneholics, added some new cool stuff, and […]