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AREAS OF INTEREST
~:~ Personal Inspiration & Development
~:~ Overcoming Adversary
~:~ Culture & Diversities - European, Far Eastern, Middle Eastern
~:~ Attempts at cultural bridging-building between Ireland/Europe & the Middle East
~:~ Natural world & ourselves - the relationship
~:~ Being an everyday philosopher, poet, and artist
~:~ My Ireland - a mystical land, people, and culture
~:~ Heritage - preservation of castles, and grand old houses
~:~ Enriching the future - leaving a record of yourself having been
~:~ Ethics, Values & Traditions
~:~ Leadership & Public Service
~:~ Politics from the Viewpoint of a Non-Politician
~:~ World Affairs/History
~:~ The Mind/Body Connection
~:~ The Role of Humour in Life
~:~ Marriage & Family
~:~ Religion, Belief, Non-belief
~:~ Ireland & Christianity - Where do we go from here?
~:~ Far East - Confucianism/Taoism and the everyday person
~:~ The Past as it Exists in the Future - the return journey
~:~ On having journeyed to become president of a country - Ireland
{Hearing in the Write} (print - hardback, 500 pages)
Description: A purely philosophical-poetic work, Hearing in the Write shows a marvellous fluidity and rapidity of thought... While it neither advocates nor adheres to any philosophy per se; a philosophy in the sense of being a time-honoured discipline hauling and dragging after itself otiose luggage of correct principles of reasoning, it definitely does concern itself in its own lyrical way with profound questions on what exists, what are some of the essential natures of things, how we live our lives, what 'knowledges' are thought to be, and above all it concerns itself with safeguarding the spontaneity of speculation... This delightfully exhilarating work has healing qualities about it in that through means of its powerfully nebulous thought engagements it encourages the mind back out into the heartland of wondrously uninhibited speculations... Hearing in the Write presents diversion and digression in thought and expression as essential ingredients for the good of our intellectual health.
{Generations Reaching} (print - hardback, 504 pages)
Description: Profound reflections by Richard Mc Sweeney on a sampling of life's eternal concerns.... Like all Richard's writings, [Generations Reaching] is being presented as a time barque for the generations of our future, thence enabling them to know and to come to appreciate the reflections and aspirations that one of their ancestors had with respect to a sampling of life's eternal concerns, while happily living simply and plainly with his wife and two children in a 21st century of his era, in a beautiful border village that the people of his day called Tallow, on the lovely isle they called Eire, of the fragile planet they called Earth, of the.... As honoured guests, does Richard cordially invite we his contemporaries on board the exquisite Time Barque of the Eternal Ocean for its precious cargo to bethink for ourselves, and to bless before it sets sail from out of the bay of our own day, for the unknown worlds of the future.
{A Jesus of Nazareth} (print - hardback, 320 pages)
Description: A genre-breaking work readily encouraging and lending itself to comparison and contrast with the Holy Bible, the Holy Qur'an, and the Holy Tanakh as well as with the principal philosophical Taoist texts, namely the Tao Te Ching and The Chuang-Tzu....Essentially a contemplative work, written as it is to be interpreted both exoterically and esoterically is an attempt to restore to the bright - the light, the memory, and the power of insight, dream, and intuition....A necessary caveat respectfully to the reader: neither the Jesus of the Gospels nor the Isa (Arabic for Jesus) of the Qur'an exists here within no more....Rather what exists here within is a Jesus of Richard's own inspiration, and, who to his own heart is eminently credible, enjoyable, and profound....The work traverses the lands we in modern times would refer to as the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
{Myriam of Lebanon} (print - hardback, 112 pages)
Description: This unique work, established on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet was debuted and warmly received at an International Conference on Gibran held in Beirut in April 2006.... Given the state that the world is in today, the author is of the strong opinion that a woman's word would be more effective in bringing about a qualitative change, and even more warmly received by peoples of the world, and of his native Ireland, than say a man's, especially, if she were perceived by them to be in every way exceedingly beautiful. The work Myriam of Lebanon has been his answer.... It presents a philosopher-poetess called Myriam from the Phoenician port city of Byblos of the land of Lebanon who visits the isle of Eire and while there shares of her profound wisdom.... This work is a bright beacon of hope and strength for our times and beyond; a beautiful and endearing work born of the green fields of Eire and the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon.
Related article: A historic day in Lebanon for Ireland
Biography
Brief biographical note of a 21st century-based creative custodian; a serene practitioner of the ancient art of
self-originating artistry.
Gaeilge name:
Risteárd Mac Suibhne (Uí Éire)
English name:
Richard Mc Sweeney (of Éire)
Date of birth:
17th July 1955
Place of birth:
Fermoy, County Cork, Isle of Éire
Mystical minded Richard Mc Sweeney:
a nuptial hermit, and father of two dwells on an extraordinary beautiful green desert isle in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, namely the lovely isle of Éire (Ireland); an isle of the isles.
Richard is happily married to Sung-ja Lee who is a native of Seoul, Republic of Korea. She is a direct descendant of the eminent 16th century Korean Confucian scholar, Lee Hwang (T'oegye). She is a fully qualified nurse, and holds a Masters in Educational Administration.
Richard lived in the Far East for some thirteen years before moving to the Middle East where he spent three years in Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a further three in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
While concurrently working as a fulltime lecturer in the Department of English Language & Literature in the University of Seoul, South Korea he gained a BA in Korean Language & Literature from Kyunggi University, and a MA in Classical Chinese Philosophy from Seoul National University, both of which he accomplished through the mediums of Korean and Classical Chinese.
His Masters thesis: {A Re-illumination on the General Understanding of Chuang-tzu's Tao} was written entirely in Korean and Classical Chinese having both Gaeilge and English abstracts.
He was also enrolled in the PhD programme in the same department at SNU but discontinued after two years in order that he and his family could move to Ireland for the sake of their children's primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
Although personally a very difficult decision to have to make at the time having been offered an opportunity to study at Harvard University's Yenching Institute by renowned Korean scholar Professor Edward W. Wagner, it was the right decision, for today their daughter holds a Masters in Geography from University College Cork, and as of July 2011 their son successfully defended his PhD thesis in Microelectronic Engineering also at UCC.
For the last ten years he has lived in a small village in western county Waterford in his native Ireland where he has written seven fascinating books: philosophical reflections on life based on his experiences of having lived in different cultures. 'Bridging Al-Serenities', 'Unto Lineage Royal', 'Innkeeper’s Fire', 'Hearing in the Write', 'Generations Reaching', 'A Jesus of Nazareth', and 'Myriam of Lebanon'
From 13th May 2011 to 27th September 2011 he put himself forth as a possible independent candidate for 9th President of Ireland.
Forum: My journey to Áras an Uachtaráin The President's Residence & the World - Richard Mc Sweeney 12,000 + views
Richard delights in composing poetic monologues: philosophical dialogues.
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