Welcome to my Essays Page

Here you will find some of the essays that I have written:

• The Idea of Evil: Pictures of evil throughout the ages . Quadrant June 2005.
• Blogs, the New Media: Online opinion, April 2005 www.onlineopinion.com.au
• Saddam Hussain's Magic Stone: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, April 2005.
• Kim Jong-Il and the Superheroes: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, April 2005.
• Lucifer's Unholy Grail: Adolf Hitler and the Occult: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, April 2005.
• Gold, Frankincense and 7 Star Hotels: Impressions of the United Arab Emirates and Oman.  First published in Kalimat, March 2004.
• Away with the Fairies: A talk given at the UK  Federation of Children’s Books Group Annual Conference, Southwold, East Anglia, UK, in 2003.
• Fons origo: A short story about the exile in the French Pyrenees of Herod Antipas, King of Galilee at the time of Jesus' crucifixion. First Published in Quadrant, 2003.
• Captive in Fairyland: The Strange Case of Robert Kirk of Aberfoyle: This is about the 18th Century Pastor and writer the Rev. Robert Kirk and his mysterious dealings with the other world.  I presented this at the International Celtic Conference at Sydney University in 2001.
• The Shakespeare Mystery: This article is about conspiracy theories about Shakespeare's authorship.  A version of this article was published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 2000.
• Marginalia: Meditations about Medieval and Post-Modern. First published in Australian Quarterly, 2000.   
• The Age of King Arthur: This article is an exploration of the vitality of the west's greatest legend: that of King Arthur. First published in Quadrant, March 1999.
• Robin Hood: Published in Quadrant, June 1999.
• Du cote de chez Irma: A memoir of my paternal great-grandmother, Irma Bos, nee Mazars. First published in Quadrant, 1998.
• Learning Gaelic: An essay on being touched by the Celtic spirit, first published in Quadrant, April 1997.
• Angels, Fairies and Aliens:An essay on the strange kinship between three vivid myths, first published in Quadrant, in March 1996.
• Artichoke Fields:  A memoir of childhood. First published Quadrant, 1996.
• Remembering the Vendee: The fact that the Vendée revolt was a popular one called into question the very nature of the Revolution, with its middle-class and aristocratic leaders. Only very recently has the Republic of France begun to acknowledge the horrors of what can be seen as perhaps the first modern genocide. First published in Quadrant, 1996.

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