Londubh
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What a joy it is to know music exists and does so with limitless possibility
October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
What a joy it is to know music exists and does so with limitless possibility
I've been in Tokyo the past 14 days, in a population of near 38 million people, and in the entire trip I've seen less homeless people here than you'd see in Dublin in a single day.
August 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I've been in Tokyo the past 14 days, in a population of near 38 million people, and in the entire trip I've seen less homeless people here than you'd see in Dublin in a single day.
Of course Xi Jinping should be recognized for his efforts to eradicate poverty in China; however, he shouldn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. That's reserved for war criminals.
July 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Of course Xi Jinping should be recognized for his efforts to eradicate poverty in China; however, he shouldn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. That's reserved for war criminals.
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The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.
April 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.
God help me, I caught a glimpse Ireland AM this morning.
Alan Hughes: "The opposition are acting like Animals, they're like toddlers."
Tommy Bowes: "But the government are taking away speaking ri..."
Alan Hughes: "I don't care, they have no right to be causing a scene."
Alan Hughes: "The opposition are acting like Animals, they're like toddlers."
Tommy Bowes: "But the government are taking away speaking ri..."
Alan Hughes: "I don't care, they have no right to be causing a scene."
March 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
God help me, I caught a glimpse Ireland AM this morning.
Alan Hughes: "The opposition are acting like Animals, they're like toddlers."
Tommy Bowes: "But the government are taking away speaking ri..."
Alan Hughes: "I don't care, they have no right to be causing a scene."
Alan Hughes: "The opposition are acting like Animals, they're like toddlers."
Tommy Bowes: "But the government are taking away speaking ri..."
Alan Hughes: "I don't care, they have no right to be causing a scene."
Democrat resistance be like "I simply cannot believe they would be so irresponsible exposing our top-secret plans to bomb brown people in the middle east. Smh."
March 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Democrat resistance be like "I simply cannot believe they would be so irresponsible exposing our top-secret plans to bomb brown people in the middle east. Smh."
"A negative nothing is however something affirmative" - Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Science of Logic, 21.89
"Whatever you say, say fuckin nothin" - Dad, encouraging me to avoid a row with my Mother
"Whatever you say, say fuckin nothin" - Dad, encouraging me to avoid a row with my Mother
March 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"A negative nothing is however something affirmative" - Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Science of Logic, 21.89
"Whatever you say, say fuckin nothin" - Dad, encouraging me to avoid a row with my Mother
"Whatever you say, say fuckin nothin" - Dad, encouraging me to avoid a row with my Mother
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Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com
How it started:
How it's going:
How it's going:
March 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
How it started:
How it's going:
How it's going:
The virtue of keeping my camera off in zoom is that nobody saw me dying laughing when the old guy in my Hegel seminar scolded the younger students for asking basic questions: "You must understand, I am 77 years old, my time is precious!"
March 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The virtue of keeping my camera off in zoom is that nobody saw me dying laughing when the old guy in my Hegel seminar scolded the younger students for asking basic questions: "You must understand, I am 77 years old, my time is precious!"
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Dua Líofa - bhí an teanga agat, ach an t-anam, níl mé cinnte. Ar deireadh, fuair muid dua ó bheith ag breathnú ort. Tá tú ag dul abhaile.
March 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Dua Líofa - bhí an teanga agat, ach an t-anam, níl mé cinnte. Ar deireadh, fuair muid dua ó bheith ag breathnú ort. Tá tú ag dul abhaile.
Feb 22 marks 62 years since the Fiddlemaster Pádraig O Keeffe died. This Postcard from 1914, the work of Castleisland photographer TW Wrenn, was taken near Adriville Bridge Scartaglin where people used to meet for set dancing.
Is the fiddle player a young Pádraig O Keeffe? They hold it the same way!
Is the fiddle player a young Pádraig O Keeffe? They hold it the same way!
February 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Feb 22 marks 62 years since the Fiddlemaster Pádraig O Keeffe died. This Postcard from 1914, the work of Castleisland photographer TW Wrenn, was taken near Adriville Bridge Scartaglin where people used to meet for set dancing.
Is the fiddle player a young Pádraig O Keeffe? They hold it the same way!
Is the fiddle player a young Pádraig O Keeffe? They hold it the same way!
"Small risk of stroke and death but other than that everything goes fine" - Irish Neurosurgeon, not an episode of Father Ted.
February 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Small risk of stroke and death but other than that everything goes fine" - Irish Neurosurgeon, not an episode of Father Ted.
July 2023, NATO Secretary General said:
"unless Ukraine wins this war, there's no membership issue to be discussed at all."
Trump admin just stated:
- A return to pre-2014 borders is “an unrealistic objective”
- U.S. doesn't support Ukraine entry to NATO
- No American troops will deploy to Ukraine
"unless Ukraine wins this war, there's no membership issue to be discussed at all."
Trump admin just stated:
- A return to pre-2014 borders is “an unrealistic objective”
- U.S. doesn't support Ukraine entry to NATO
- No American troops will deploy to Ukraine
Hegseth Says Return to Ukraine’s Prewar Borders Is ‘Unrealistic’
In his first trip abroad, the new U.S. defense secretary told allies, including NATO officials, that a durable peace could only come “with a realistic assessment of the battlefield.”
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
July 2023, NATO Secretary General said:
"unless Ukraine wins this war, there's no membership issue to be discussed at all."
Trump admin just stated:
- A return to pre-2014 borders is “an unrealistic objective”
- U.S. doesn't support Ukraine entry to NATO
- No American troops will deploy to Ukraine
"unless Ukraine wins this war, there's no membership issue to be discussed at all."
Trump admin just stated:
- A return to pre-2014 borders is “an unrealistic objective”
- U.S. doesn't support Ukraine entry to NATO
- No American troops will deploy to Ukraine
Perplexing that the U.S. is casually ripping up decades of soft power projects around the globe. USAID funding over 6'200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 media NGOs, including 9/10 media outlets in Ukraine, confirms everything "tankies" were saying these past 2 decades.
USA: Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws journalism around the world into chaos
President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including over $268 million allocated by Congress to support independent media and the free flow of information....
rsf.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Perplexing that the U.S. is casually ripping up decades of soft power projects around the globe. USAID funding over 6'200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 media NGOs, including 9/10 media outlets in Ukraine, confirms everything "tankies" were saying these past 2 decades.
No surprise on the timing of China's AI model release — dropping just as Trump takes over and promotes AI business. Though Biden was asleep at the wheel, his admin would have raised bloody hell on China's entry in the race that ultimately targets the US hegemony's core: finance capital and tech.
January 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
No surprise on the timing of China's AI model release — dropping just as Trump takes over and promotes AI business. Though Biden was asleep at the wheel, his admin would have raised bloody hell on China's entry in the race that ultimately targets the US hegemony's core: finance capital and tech.
Friends, family, relationships; these are the 3 demons you must slay to become a decent uilleann piper.
January 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Friends, family, relationships; these are the 3 demons you must slay to become a decent uilleann piper.
Tig linn dearmad a dhéanamh ar an nGaeilge anois agus Verona Murphy mar Cheann Comhairle againn. Ní chloisfear ach béarla Fhine Gael i seomra na Dála as seo amach.
Irony of ironies that those ministers voted in by nationalist sentiment will now cement English as standard in the Dáil.
Irony of ironies that those ministers voted in by nationalist sentiment will now cement English as standard in the Dáil.
December 19, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Tig linn dearmad a dhéanamh ar an nGaeilge anois agus Verona Murphy mar Cheann Comhairle againn. Ní chloisfear ach béarla Fhine Gael i seomra na Dála as seo amach.
Irony of ironies that those ministers voted in by nationalist sentiment will now cement English as standard in the Dáil.
Irony of ironies that those ministers voted in by nationalist sentiment will now cement English as standard in the Dáil.
Hear me out... Brehon law tradwife
December 18, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Hear me out... Brehon law tradwife
Éire 2050. Labour and the SocDems are polling 5%. The recently formed DemSocs are indicating their openness to a coalition government with FFG. PBP remains at 3%.
Sinead Gibney has done the work and deserves the benefit of the doubt. But this short contribution is not what I expected; from Me-ism to the potential for mudguardism. There’s an interesting few days ahead.
December 4, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Éire 2050. Labour and the SocDems are polling 5%. The recently formed DemSocs are indicating their openness to a coalition government with FFG. PBP remains at 3%.
"Ya did in your shite put salt on dem chips, shur only the snails outside are eatin them, look i even took a bleedin picture"
November 28, 2024 at 3:38 PM
"Ya did in your shite put salt on dem chips, shur only the snails outside are eatin them, look i even took a bleedin picture"
"Dear Stanislaw, this Friday evening, in Dublin, I am doing a reading with an Irish Piper, Liam Óg O' Flynn, who plays those deep-toned, deep droned, elbow-bellowed jobs - the Uilleann Pipes, from the word uile, meaning elbow in Irish." - Séamus Heaney, letters, 23 November 1994
November 23, 2024 at 1:21 AM
"Dear Stanislaw, this Friday evening, in Dublin, I am doing a reading with an Irish Piper, Liam Óg O' Flynn, who plays those deep-toned, deep droned, elbow-bellowed jobs - the Uilleann Pipes, from the word uile, meaning elbow in Irish." - Séamus Heaney, letters, 23 November 1994
Ba chuimhneachán tábhachtach dom, nuair a fuair mo sheanathair bás bhios ag obair i gcomhlacht bheag, 's chuir ball den bhord in iúl dom go gcaithfí mo shaoire thrócaireach a bhaint as mo shaoire bhliantúil. Is mhothaigh sé nach raibh mo bhrón neamhaird amháin ach cainníochtaithe freisin.
November 19, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Ba chuimhneachán tábhachtach dom, nuair a fuair mo sheanathair bás bhios ag obair i gcomhlacht bheag, 's chuir ball den bhord in iúl dom go gcaithfí mo shaoire thrócaireach a bhaint as mo shaoire bhliantúil. Is mhothaigh sé nach raibh mo bhrón neamhaird amháin ach cainníochtaithe freisin.
Mo cat Simba ina shuí, ag taitneamh mar rí. An bastard leisciúil.
November 16, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Mo cat Simba ina shuí, ag taitneamh mar rí. An bastard leisciúil.
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"The current Irish-language movement often highlights governmental and social bi-lingualism as an end goal. [......] this ignores the fact that most “bilingual” settings are actually English-only settings with tokenistic use of Irish" - @jeffreyseathrun.bsky.social
universitytimes.ie/2024/11/we-m...
universitytimes.ie/2024/11/we-m...
We Must Denormalise and Delegitimise the English Language
The struggle for Irish language rights is de-colonial. But it can never be complete until we collectively de-normalise the language of its oppression, writes Jeffrey Seathún Sardina.
universitytimes.ie
November 15, 2024 at 12:44 AM
"The current Irish-language movement often highlights governmental and social bi-lingualism as an end goal. [......] this ignores the fact that most “bilingual” settings are actually English-only settings with tokenistic use of Irish" - @jeffreyseathrun.bsky.social
universitytimes.ie/2024/11/we-m...
universitytimes.ie/2024/11/we-m...