John P. O'Grady
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Scribbler, Image-maker, Zen Hermeticist. Editor of The Collected Sayings of Pickthorn.
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The singer-songwriter Chris Rea, known for hits including Driving Home for Christmas, has died at the age of 74, a spokesperson for his family has said
Singer-songwriter Chris Rea dies aged 74
The singer-songwriter Chris Rea, known for hits including Driving Home for Christmas, has died at the age of 74, a spokesperson for his family has said.
www.rte.ie
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The singer-songwriter Chris Rea, known for hits including Driving Home for Christmas, has died at the age of 74, a spokesperson for his family has said
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Bhí #Gaeilge chun tosaigh i bhfeachtas Catherine Connolly - agus beidh sí lárnach le linn a hUachtaránacht, thug sí le fios a h-oráid aréir agus i gceistneoir #Gaelvóta @cnag.
jrnl.ie/6856278t
jrnl.ie/6856278t
Gaeilge le bheith ina teanga oibre san Áras le linn téarma Uachtaránachta Catherine Connolly
Is é seo an coimitmint a thug Catherine Connolly agus í ag tabhairt freagra ar cheistneoir Gaelvóta ó Chonradh na Gaeilge.
jrnl.ie
October 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Bhí #Gaeilge chun tosaigh i bhfeachtas Catherine Connolly - agus beidh sí lárnach le linn a hUachtaránacht, thug sí le fios a h-oráid aréir agus i gceistneoir #Gaelvóta @cnag.
jrnl.ie/6856278t
jrnl.ie/6856278t
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The Far Right Irish are devastated tonight that Left Wing Palestine supporter Catherine Connolly was elected Irish President.
But they are lucky, because if everyone had values like theirs Ireland would still be British.
But they are lucky, because if everyone had values like theirs Ireland would still be British.
October 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Far Right Irish are devastated tonight that Left Wing Palestine supporter Catherine Connolly was elected Irish President.
But they are lucky, because if everyone had values like theirs Ireland would still be British.
But they are lucky, because if everyone had values like theirs Ireland would still be British.
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This beautiful little poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa plays cleverly with English and Irish,how words shift in meaning and emotional resonance
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#gaeilge
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#gaeilge
October 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This beautiful little poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa plays cleverly with English and Irish,how words shift in meaning and emotional resonance
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#gaeilge
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#gaeilge
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Belfast City Council has passed a new policy over the usage of the Irish language, despite opposition by unionists
Belfast City Council passes new policy on Irish language
Belfast City Council has passed a new policy over the usage of the Irish language, despite opposition by unionists.
www.rte.ie
October 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Belfast City Council has passed a new policy over the usage of the Irish language, despite opposition by unionists
“Virgil’s great poem makes us feel the tears of things, reopening the fiery wounds of history and igniting our hearts with the traces of forgotten flames.”
Review: A new twist on a classic text
In their compelling new translation of the “Aeneid,” Scott McGill and Susannah Wright offer a dynamic, poignant and thought-provoking take on this classic poem.
www.americamagazine.org
September 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Virgil’s great poem makes us feel the tears of things, reopening the fiery wounds of history and igniting our hearts with the traces of forgotten flames.”
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how it feels to contribute to an edited volume
September 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
how it feels to contribute to an edited volume
"Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn."
Is Today’s Self-Help Teaching Everyone to Be a Jerk?
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn."
"The sobering fact is that Americans in early adulthood have fallen far behind their peers in other rich countries—to the point where more of them are losing their lives."
There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults
America is not a good place to be an early adult.
slate.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"The sobering fact is that Americans in early adulthood have fallen far behind their peers in other rich countries—to the point where more of them are losing their lives."
"One of the great lessons of science fiction is that no matter what the technological horizons seem to promise, we still have the same basic challenge of figuring out how to live together."
Sadhbh O'Neill: Have we ever really considered what the future of transportation will look like?
It is likely to take decades before AVs can operate reliably in mixed urban traffic and bad weather conditions
www.irishtimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"One of the great lessons of science fiction is that no matter what the technological horizons seem to promise, we still have the same basic challenge of figuring out how to live together."
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Interview with editors of new book on Joanne Kyger: paulenelson.com/2024/11/20/p...
Poet of Place (Joanne Kyger)
Visit the post for more.
paulenelson.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Interview with editors of new book on Joanne Kyger: paulenelson.com/2024/11/20/p...
Rich's poem pairs nicely with these lines from Philip Whalen:
"What do I want
What am I really after
Sometimes a tree answers"
"What do I want
What am I really after
Sometimes a tree answers"
Adrienne Rich reading "What Kind of Times Are These?"
YouTube video by Wdan Coyle
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Rich's poem pairs nicely with these lines from Philip Whalen:
"What do I want
What am I really after
Sometimes a tree answers"
"What do I want
What am I really after
Sometimes a tree answers"
"This is the glory of Druid: 50 years is overture. Hynes is more restless, more edgy, more disconcerting and more masterly than she was when the company started. Druid is not taking a bow. It is still headbutting all our complacencies. We come out of the theatre seeing stars."
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland in the 1980s was bloody awful, but there was at least one good reason not to emigrate
Galway’s Druid theatre company had a superb, stubborn belief that a basket case of a nation could also be a Moses basket
www.irishtimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"This is the glory of Druid: 50 years is overture. Hynes is more restless, more edgy, more disconcerting and more masterly than she was when the company started. Druid is not taking a bow. It is still headbutting all our complacencies. We come out of the theatre seeing stars."
"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."
The General Theory of Enshittification
It isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems to matter more
paulkrugman.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."
"He was, first and foremost, a teacher of undergraduate and graduate students in history at the University of Rochester. And like many gifted writers who teach, he found the quality of his students’ writing disappointing and increasingly frustrating."
Christopher Lasch, Plain Writing, and Democracy - Providence
Social critic Christopher Lasch was emphatic that the inability of Americans to express themselves simply and clearly through writing was indicative of major civilizational decline, and the problem ha...
providencemag.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"He was, first and foremost, a teacher of undergraduate and graduate students in history at the University of Rochester. And like many gifted writers who teach, he found the quality of his students’ writing disappointing and increasingly frustrating."
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June 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Tá na Gaeil ag dul chun sráide🅾
⏰1.30pm Satharn 20ú Meán Fómhair
📌Baile Átha Cliath
🚨Maoiniú • Funding
🚨Tithíocht • Gaeltacht Housing
🚨Oideachas • Education
🚨Cearta Teanga •Language Rights
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