James Cooke
@jcooke0909.bsky.social
Postgraduate choral musician researching lied arrangements. Associate lecturer with The Open University in physics and stats. Interested in psychoanalysis. Occasionally a civil servant, sometimes a research ethicist, often a conductor, always a nuisance.
Alternative caption: Higgins and Connolly about to begin a 2-hand reel in the Áras.
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Alternative caption: Higgins and Connolly about to begin a 2-hand reel in the Áras.
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The far right will eventually kill someone or lots of someones if our pathetic government does not act now to stop them … first step would be for politicians, including Government ministers, to stop repeating far right racist rhetoric #speirgorm
Firefighters rescued five people, including three children under ten, from the top floor of an Ipas centre in Drogheda last night after a major fire.
Gardaí have preserved the scene while the cause of the blaze is investigated.
www.thejournal.ie/fire-ipsa-ce...
Gardaí have preserved the scene while the cause of the blaze is investigated.
www.thejournal.ie/fire-ipsa-ce...
Emergency services tackle major fire at Ipas centre in Drogheda
Arson has not been ruled out.
www.thejournal.ie
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The far right will eventually kill someone or lots of someones if our pathetic government does not act now to stop them … first step would be for politicians, including Government ministers, to stop repeating far right racist rhetoric #speirgorm
Reposted by James Cooke
No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.
Reposted by James Cooke
As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
They are big fans of avant-garde music up in Derry, if you can believe it!😜
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
They are big fans of avant-garde music up in Derry, if you can believe it!😜
I suppose as a Derry man, 'We Shall Overcome' always had a special relevance. I wanted to write a cultural history of it from about the age of 14. I don't begrudge Daniel Geary for beating me to it.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
“We Shall Overcome” and Ireland | 6 | The Transatlantic Politics of a
How did an American Protestant gospel song best associated with the African American Freedom Struggle become the anthem of the Northern Irish civil rights
www.taylorfrancis.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I suppose as a Derry man, 'We Shall Overcome' always had a special relevance. I wanted to write a cultural history of it from about the age of 14. I don't begrudge Daniel Geary for beating me to it.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Many congrats to @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social and Denise Neary for organising 'The Expansive Canvas'. The plurality of perspectives - from formenlehre to music education - was incredible!
I didn't expect to hear MAGA invoked at the conference, but I wholeheartedly endorse Making Editing Great Again!
I didn't expect to hear MAGA invoked at the conference, but I wholeheartedly endorse Making Editing Great Again!
August 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Many congrats to @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social and Denise Neary for organising 'The Expansive Canvas'. The plurality of perspectives - from formenlehre to music education - was incredible!
I didn't expect to hear MAGA invoked at the conference, but I wholeheartedly endorse Making Editing Great Again!
I didn't expect to hear MAGA invoked at the conference, but I wholeheartedly endorse Making Editing Great Again!
I spent a great week in Estonia for their Song Festival, and there was lots of reverent listening to folk chorales...
However Mantyjarvi's deeply irreverent parody of Tormis' Forgotten People reduced me to fits of laughter when it appeared in my shuffle in the gym!
open.spotify.com/track/2TGDSO...
However Mantyjarvi's deeply irreverent parody of Tormis' Forgotten People reduced me to fits of laughter when it appeared in my shuffle in the gym!
open.spotify.com/track/2TGDSO...
El Hambo
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Philip Brunelle · From the Land of Sky Blue Waters · Song · 2012
open.spotify.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I spent a great week in Estonia for their Song Festival, and there was lots of reverent listening to folk chorales...
However Mantyjarvi's deeply irreverent parody of Tormis' Forgotten People reduced me to fits of laughter when it appeared in my shuffle in the gym!
open.spotify.com/track/2TGDSO...
However Mantyjarvi's deeply irreverent parody of Tormis' Forgotten People reduced me to fits of laughter when it appeared in my shuffle in the gym!
open.spotify.com/track/2TGDSO...
I'm amazed by how much I'm enjoying Feminine Endings by Susan McClary!
This is preparatory reading for me as I'm presenting at 'The Expansive Canvas: Large Scale Form in the Music of 19thC Women Composers' next week in @tlrhub.bsky.social.
This is preparatory reading for me as I'm presenting at 'The Expansive Canvas: Large Scale Form in the Music of 19thC Women Composers' next week in @tlrhub.bsky.social.
August 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I'm amazed by how much I'm enjoying Feminine Endings by Susan McClary!
This is preparatory reading for me as I'm presenting at 'The Expansive Canvas: Large Scale Form in the Music of 19thC Women Composers' next week in @tlrhub.bsky.social.
This is preparatory reading for me as I'm presenting at 'The Expansive Canvas: Large Scale Form in the Music of 19thC Women Composers' next week in @tlrhub.bsky.social.