just learning out about the big monsterlove tribute album, immediate purchase popicalisland.bandcamp.com/album/plunde...

Was tidying and found an old Leader with the shortlist for “Longford’s All-Time Greats” and this is why we’ll never be treated as a serious county

historians arriving on Bluesky be like

Logging back in after several months of inactivity. May the Bluesky true believers pardon my fairweather nature.

Google Scholar Alerts informs me that I have been cited in a Masters thesis submitted to the Fluminense Federal University in Niterói, Brazil, on the prelude to the 1969-70 IRA split. I am suitably flattered and only regretful that I don't speak Portuguese app.uff.br/riuff/bitstr...

The Celtic board expresses satisfaction as the Green Brigade are replaced by Roy Keane's 'prawn sandwich brigade'. www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot...

DJ who inadvertently plays Edith Piaf when someone in the club requests Kylie's 'Padam, padam'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXqL...

Aontú für Deutschland www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

'Possession is not available at this time. Instead, check out Lars von Trier's Antichrist, which is currently showing on MUBI' is not the answer I was looking for.

'Rebecca: now a Netflix movie starring Lily James and Armie Hammer' is not the cinematic reference I would use to advertise Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel.

The first time a Flanagan hasn't represented Laois in the Dáil since the Monetary Reform Party threatened to rout the Jews out of the country in 1943. www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Sir, – We need less Irish rugby fans singing along to 'Zombie', and more Glasgow Celtic supporters singing along to 'Zombie Nation'.

Is mise, le meas,

This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible

Pleased to announce I shall be participating in culture night in Galway - call into Charlie Byrne's after 6, where I'll be reading from my piece on Bishop Michael Browne and culture in twentieth century Galway as part of the festivities.

Visited Vinegar Hill and read Heaney's Requiem for the Croppies while climbing it. Also stopped in at the 1798 National Centre and Enniscorthy Castle.

twitter users stone age
in 2023 hunter-gatherers
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mastodon attempt failed,
turned to sky worship for sustenance

No one in the admittedly brief history of Bluesky has deemed by hometown fit to even mention in passing. My provincial pride is affronted.