Author: Dorothy McLean
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The Jesuits’ Ceilidh
“I hate being a wallflower, so I’ll only put up with it for an hour,” I told Mr McLean before departing for the ceilidh at the Jesuits’ hall on Lauriston […]
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The Third Annual Eastertide Dance
The phone call came when I was punching holes in dance cards. “There is heavy traffic, and we’re going to be late,” said Krzysztof. I relaxed for the first time […]
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Culture and costume
Lent being over, I went to a Lindy Hop social this week. There I joined a friend, saw many regulars and met a young lady visiting from Switzerland. She had […]
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The Lion on Dancing
We had a wonderful time at the Third Annual Eastertide Dance in Edinburgh last night. As always we began with the Prayer to Saint Michael and ended by singing Regina […]
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A Village Dance
“I don’t have a problem with Catholic Match being an option,” said a fellow Easter Sunday lunch guest. “I have a problem with Catholic Match being the ONLY option.” I […]
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Whatever happened to Britain?
“Sin has its own built-in punishment,” said Sister Mary Wilfreda O’Flaherty, IBVM, 40 years ago, and sad experience shows me that this is absolutely true. Tragically, it isn’t true just […]
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Inducements to the Eastertide Dance
It is a truth universally acknowledged among dance organisers that most young people in possession of both free time and £20 buy their tickets at the last minute. The advice […]
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Finding the Lost Art of Dress
Not only have I enthusiastically endorsed Anna Kalinowska’s Clothed with Beauty: A Catholic Philosophy of Dress, I have begun to work through her Recommended Reading. The Lost Art of Dress […]
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Restoring the culture
I had many opportunities this week to think about Western Civilisation and its 20th century rupturing. First, I got down to writing my review of Anna Kalinowska’s Clothed with Beauty: […]
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The Joy of Dance Cards
I was thinking today that I first came across properTanzkarten at the May 2022 Order of Malta Ball in Edinburgh. However, I suddenly remembered that I had seen them as […]