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Bailiúchán breá aistí le Gabriel Rosenstock. Foilsíodh cuid mhaith acu ar The Irish Times an chéad uair, aistí ina bpléitear réimse leathan ábhar agus scata daoine a bhfuil spéis aige iontu - Derrick Jensen, David Abram, Amin Maalouf, Wolfi Land streicher, Rabindranath Tagore, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Svetlana Marisova agus a thuilleadh nach iad. Ceisteanna a bhaineann le cúrsaí creidimh agus cúrsaí polaitíochta, náisiúnachas v. ainrialachas, cuir i gcás, cúrsaí teanga is filíochta, gan amhras, cúrsaí timpeallachta, an haiku. Tá a fhios againn go léir faoin am seo cad is haiku ann, ach cad is renku ann? Léigh leat. Léigh faoin bpobal neamhghnách san India, na Bishnoi, agus go leor leor eile. Lón machnaimh don rara avis sin na laethanta seo, an léitheoir Gaeilge. --- A fine collection of essays by Gabriel Rosenstock. Many were first published in The Irish Times; the essays deal with a wide range and number of interesting people - Derrick Jensen, David Abram, Amin Maalouf, Wolfi Landstreicher, Rabindranath Tagore, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Svetlana Marisova and more besides. Issues relating to religion and politics, nationalism v. anarchy, for example, questions of language and poetry, of course, environmental issues, and haiku. We all know nowadays what haiku is, but what is renku? Read more. Read about an unusual community in India, the Bishnoi, and much more. Food for thought for that rara avis of these days: the Irish reader.