Clare Bell
Clare Bell
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Two little bits of media consumption for you all. The Smithsonian’s Lonnie Bunch talking to Culture File
www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

And @nytimes.com gift piece about Trump’s attack on the museums:

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...
Lonnie G. Bunch III | Culture File
Like many American visitors to Ireland, Lonnie G. Bunch III, head of the Smithsonian, has uncovered some Irish heritage. But for him the discovery produces ambivalent feelings.
www.rte.ie
April 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Don't mess with archivists. We keep receipts.
"The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document (...) With a single stroke of a pen, the USA accepted that the whole of Greenland was Danish territory".

jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE1...
The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document proving that President Donald Trump is wrong about Greenland
In a high-security storage facility at the Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet) is a 100 year old sheet of paper with an American promise about Greenland. This is the fascinating story which Preside...
jyllands-posten.dk
March 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Reminder that when you post that Studio Ghibli AI slop that former union organizer Hayao Miyazaki thinks it is "an insult to life itself."
March 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Can’t wait to hear this audio creation on Patrick Kanvangh’s long walk to Dublin, from a massive team of great folks including Pat Collins, Kevin Brew, Chris Watson, Irene Buckley, Mikel Murfi and many more? Don’t have to - it’s online now!

www.rte.ie/radio/dramao...
Eternal Lanes of Joy by Pat Collins
Patrick Kavanagh's epic journey to Dublin
www.rte.ie
March 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Vivian Wilson is Teen Vogue’s special issue cover star. The 20-year-old estranged daughter of Elon Musk discusses her modeling and TV aspirations, unusual extended family, and what she describes as the “cartoonishly evil” Trump admin. Read the full interview here: www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
March 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would *not* be issuing me with a new contract. 🤷‍♀️

So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so much from it.
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February 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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We're looking for people who've had to transliterate their names from another alphabet into the Latin one -- or who've even changed their name to one easier for English speakers to pronounce -- upon moving to Dublin. Want to talk, for an article, about the change: how you decided, how it feels?
February 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM