Tag Archives: Covid19

The Choctaw and Irish Nations

Posted on December 3, 2023 by Barry Pomeroy

Fifty percent of the Choctaw people had only just survived the forced relocation from Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana into Oklahoma (the aptly named Trail of Tears), when a member of the tribe heard about An Gorta Mór, the great famine … Continue reading →

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Cultural Covid

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Barry Pomeroy

Now that Covid-19 has been with us for two years, its profound effects on the different societies of the planet are becoming more obvious. Relatively democratic societies, for all their flirtation with fascism, are descending into mob rule as unscrupulous … Continue reading →

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Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Covid

Posted on October 3, 2020 by Barry Pomeroy

News about the Covid 19 virus has become a ubiquitous backdrop in our lives, and the media’s frenzy in our lives has become more ubiquitous than the trappings of the disease itself. More than masks and people side-eying while they … Continue reading →

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