Derek Barry
@derek-barry.bsky.social
Brisbane Irish Australian. Quondam journalist. Now unemployed writer. The dog is Basil. He’s a bad boy who thankfully lives with my sister but he likes my lap. The geese live at Ardfinnan. You can find my ramblings at woollydays.wordpress.com
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Irish Eye
Buy Irish Eye, Stories of Waterford and the south east by Derek Barry from Booktopia. Get a discounted ePUB from Australia's leading online bookstore.
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My ebook "Irish Eye: Stories about #waterford and the south east" is now available. If you are looking for a decent read about south east #ireland then look no further www.booktopia.com.au/irish-eye-de...
“Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels" Someone in Trump world has read Henry IV Part 2
January 8, 2026 at 8:25 AM
“Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels" Someone in Trump world has read Henry IV Part 2
God's executioner: Oliver Cromwell in Ireland woollydays.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/g...
God’s executioner: Oliver Cromwell in Ireland
Samuel Cooper’s painting of Oliver Cromwell. Photo: National Library of Ireland Few Englishmen have a reputation as jarring as that of Oliver Cromwell. At home he is revered. The BBC named hi…
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January 3, 2026 at 11:49 PM
God's executioner: Oliver Cromwell in Ireland woollydays.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/g...
"Please don't eat toilet seats" makes a late but glorious charge for the not on my bingo card end of year awards
you think i’m joking when i say tasmania is awful never come here
December 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"Please don't eat toilet seats" makes a late but glorious charge for the not on my bingo card end of year awards
My ebook "Irish Eye: Stories about #waterford and the south east" is now available. If you are looking for a decent read about south east #ireland then look no further www.booktopia.com.au/irish-eye-de...
Irish Eye
Buy Irish Eye, Stories of Waterford and the south east by Derek Barry from Booktopia. Get a discounted ePUB from Australia's leading online bookstore.
www.booktopia.com.au
December 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
My ebook "Irish Eye: Stories about #waterford and the south east" is now available. If you are looking for a decent read about south east #ireland then look no further www.booktopia.com.au/irish-eye-de...
I hate to be a grumpy old man about these things but kids on ebikes have definitely made the path I use regularly at Kedron Brook far more unsafe www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in...
Thousands fined as police target rogue e-bike riders - News | InDaily, Inside Queensland
A crackdown on the use of e-bikes and scooters has resulted in thousands of fines with police also seizing unlawful devices.
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December 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I hate to be a grumpy old man about these things but kids on ebikes have definitely made the path I use regularly at Kedron Brook far more unsafe www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in...
This is a bad sign
December 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is a bad sign
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me the last #parkrun of the year today at Gainsborough Parkland on northern Gold Coast. Bike and train to new station just 300m away. Loved their festive chalk marks and appreciated much cooler day for 24.07 in 313th run 120th course.
December 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me the last #parkrun of the year today at Gainsborough Parkland on northern Gold Coast. Bike and train to new station just 300m away. Loved their festive chalk marks and appreciated much cooler day for 24.07 in 313th run 120th course.
Thwaites ice shelf just rang. It’s not well
This seems bad
December 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Thwaites ice shelf just rang. It’s not well
“Would you sing us a song Christy”
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Christy Moore locked in room at Holyhead Port in 2004
Legendary Irish folk singer Christy Moore was at the centre of a previously unknown diplomatic incident in 2004 when he was locked in a room and questioned over why he was travelling to England by boa...
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December 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
“Would you sing us a song Christy”
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"The model’s epistemology is not grounded in a stable representation of facts, but is fluid, conditional, and determined by the social role it infers from the user’s prompt."
Eek! 🫣 Role-Based Reality: How AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words
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December 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
"The model’s epistemology is not grounded in a stable representation of facts, but is fluid, conditional, and determined by the social role it infers from the user’s prompt."
I remember this scaring the living daylights out of me in the 1970s m.youtube.com/watch?v=-V6d...
Children Of The Stones Theme
YouTube video by Louish Waltz
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December 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I remember this scaring the living daylights out of me in the 1970s m.youtube.com/watch?v=-V6d...
These days it would be the Gary Glitter segment that would cause the most tongues to wag
In 1992, the prisoners in Long Kesh put on a Christmas panto and variety show. Have a gander at some of the programme here:
December 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
These days it would be the Gary Glitter segment that would cause the most tongues to wag
Worth sharing widely for its Streisandness
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Worth sharing widely for its Streisandness
Media person of the year 2025: Heather Cox Richardson woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/m...
Media person of the year 2025: Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson. Photo: Peter Stevens licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. The World Meteorological Organisation’s COP30 2025 climate report paints a st…
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December 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Media person of the year 2025: Heather Cox Richardson woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/m...
My heart goes out to David Attenborough who will not be allowed to play Lego after May 7,2026
December 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
My heart goes out to David Attenborough who will not be allowed to play Lego after May 7,2026
A new soul: The Young Ireland movement woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/a...
A new soul: The Young Ireland movement
A coatee which Young Irelanders would have worn at 82 Club functions, now on display at the Waterford Treasures Museum, Bishop’s Palace. Photo: Author’s collection In September 1863 American Union …
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December 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
A new soul: The Young Ireland movement woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/a...
The footballer formerly known as Prince
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The footballer formerly known as Prince
CSIRO's Simple Electricity Model shows new electricity generation capital & comparative costs & method to examine elcty gen mix & avge cost to get Aus’s 82pc 2030 RET and 2050 net zero "In both cases solar PV and onshore wind form basis for least cost generation mix" data.csiro.au/collection/c...
CSIRO Data Access Portal
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December 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
CSIRO's Simple Electricity Model shows new electricity generation capital & comparative costs & method to examine elcty gen mix & avge cost to get Aus’s 82pc 2030 RET and 2050 net zero "In both cases solar PV and onshore wind form basis for least cost generation mix" data.csiro.au/collection/c...
“I said something”: Every oversold newspaper article seems to think useless pull quote WITH SOME ALL CAPS is now the thing to attract the punters. Read more at dumbass.com/getyourcreditcardout/clickbait
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“I said something”: Every oversold newspaper article seems to think useless pull quote WITH SOME ALL CAPS is now the thing to attract the punters. Read more at dumbass.com/getyourcreditcardout/clickbait
Evening walk to Portside to see Nuremberg on Dendy cut price night
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Evening walk to Portside to see Nuremberg on Dendy cut price night
My ebook "Irish Eye: Stories about #waterford and the south east" is now available. If you are looking for a decent read about south east #ireland then look no further bookshop.org/p/books/iris...
Irish Eye: Stories of Waterford and the south east
Stories of Waterford and the south east
bookshop.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
My ebook "Irish Eye: Stories about #waterford and the south east" is now available. If you are looking for a decent read about south east #ireland then look no further bookshop.org/p/books/iris...
The hydrogen revolution will not be televised woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/t...
The hydrogen revolution will not be televised
Marco Alverà’s The Hydrogen Revolution was written in 2021 when it seemed like hydrogen was indeed as its subtitle promised, “A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy”. The Ital…
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December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The hydrogen revolution will not be televised woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/t...
Reposted by Derek Barry
It's near certain the American Civil War saw more Cork men in uniform than any other conflict. That's reflected in the 19th century U.S. pensions paid out in Ireland, where Cork tops the list with almost 100 men and women identified so far. Interactive Map here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's near certain the American Civil War saw more Cork men in uniform than any other conflict. That's reflected in the 19th century U.S. pensions paid out in Ireland, where Cork tops the list with almost 100 men and women identified so far. Interactive Map here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...