The Scholar Gypsies
Welcome to the Scholar Gypsies. The Scholar Gypsies is dedicated to hosting long-form conversations and interviews on topical current and cultural events in Ireland and around the world. The channel is run by substack writers John Waters and Gerry O'Neill. You can view their individual writing platforms below.
johnwaters.substack.com/
westawake.substack.com/
The channel name is inspired by a verse from the Matthew Arnold poem The Scholar-Gipsy
" And near me on the grass lies Glanvil's book—
Come, let me read the oft-read tale again!
The story of the Oxford scholar poor,
Of pregnant parts and quick inventive brain,
Who, tired of knocking at preferment's door,
One summer-morn forsook
His friends, and went to learn the gipsy-lore,
And roam'd the world with that wild brotherhood,
And came, as most men deem'd, to little good,
But came to Oxford and his friends no more "
johnwaters.substack.com/
westawake.substack.com/
The channel name is inspired by a verse from the Matthew Arnold poem The Scholar-Gipsy
" And near me on the grass lies Glanvil's book—
Come, let me read the oft-read tale again!
The story of the Oxford scholar poor,
Of pregnant parts and quick inventive brain,
Who, tired of knocking at preferment's door,
One summer-morn forsook
His friends, and went to learn the gipsy-lore,
And roam'd the world with that wild brotherhood,
And came, as most men deem'd, to little good,
But came to Oxford and his friends no more "