Lifestyle

Financial markets have received quite a jolt over the last four months as money markets across the globe froze.

Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were the three Italian creators of the High Renaissance.

Dante’s 14th Century Divine Comedy, given the title ‘Divine’ by Giovanni Boccaccio, describes many of the tortures that will be inflicted on us doctors (I’m excluding surgeons here) once we die and descend to Hell.

Every year, around this time, I start to lament that I don’t have small children anymore.

“Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

In the fifth century the Pass of Thermopylae in Greece was the scene of a defensive battle by an outnumbered Greek force against a vast, invading Persian army.

The Irish economy is at a very interesting juncture.

Axel Munthe’s The Story of San Michele is perhaps the most famous book of reminiscences ever written by a doctor.

A few years ago, I was involved with a reminiscence project that aimed to gather and record reminiscences of bygone times.

The challenge of creating a good likeness has proved irresistible to artists down through the ages.