MORE OF THE SAME.

This may not surprise you.

I've come across some new stuff, mostly pertaining to the "Little Books" that Mullan wrote. These were compilations of saint's (or blessed folks') quotes with a forward by Mullan, in a convenient, pocket-sized paperback (for all your saintly needs, of course.) It was interesting to watch the conversation about permissions to publish certain quotes, and who his market was for other things. There was also a lot of older things - the Donal de Roiste case again, for instance, with more correspondence and drafts of the final book (Speaking Truth to Power) as well as clippings from Donal's sister's run for the Irish presidency, which was foiled in part by Donal's case.

So, what you're all here for: the pictures!

These are edits from one of the Little Books. Lots of unreadable notes.

(Sorry this is sideways - I thought I had finally figured it out! Apparently not.) These were quotes from Oscar Romero, collected for the Little Book. Really, really interesting stuff.

Okay, so I know that Oscar Romero is a very serious guy and his story is very serious as well. But...1989 artwork has some interesting ideas on how to portray that...

I don't think I would have gotten along with Teresa of Avila....(Mullan actually said, in an e-mail, that she was a "tough cookie" and I think he felt similarly to me. Interesting stuff!)

I am VERY curious about this person. But I'll respect her right to privacy, just as Mullan did.

Letters from India, from Mother Teresa's order. Very cool!

More Mother Teresa notes...

Aaaaand this was in Mullan's collection of biographical information about Mother Teresa. This caused me, obviously, to fall down the Wikipedia warphole. Apparently there's a group of New Agey religious who believe that Mother Mary manifests to those who have entered higher planes of existence, and that Mary passed along some messages about Mother Teresa. Nice ones!

More Gordon Banks photos. He looks like the nicest man!

...see?? I love football players.

really.

Can you imagine receiving Christmas cards from your childhood hero? SO COOL

And I guess they made comic books about football. That's also pretty cool and likely matches the demographic...

This was about a warehouse in Ireland that held lots and lots and lots of explosives but had very very poor security. Mullan thinks that this was linked to the De Roiste case. The photos from this warehouse were frightening - explosive components scattered all around, terrible or barely-there fencing, and the possibility that they were pilfered for terrorist use later...

If you look veeeerrryyy closely, you can see my FIRST WORK-RELATED INJURY

And I finish on this note! I don't think I need to tell all y'all how I feel about this article. (There were a lot of these. Blech.)

Until next week, everybody!!