Not sure why there's a random link there!

You've committed no faux pas. There's no getting around it really. "Hiberno-béarla"?

That collection of words sit uneasily together.

Which reminds me of when my partner went to a bakery in Strabane and asked for English muffins and they said: "we only serve muffins here."

Eamonn McCann has a line about him that if aliens landed on earth tomorrow he'd wonder what this meant for the Protestant People of Londonderry.

That's very amusing Séamas, but for some of us, having worked in a call centre in Strabane that looked exactly like Pharrell Williams' house isn't some kind of abstraction you can laugh off.

Hey Alex, when are you releasing this one? Cheers.

Strabane despite being Tyrone forms part of the Greater Bogside.

Also-ran compared to the real feast day today, St Augustine.

Irish thing as someone else has said, which I take to be our natural Platonism: evil is a result of the lack of knowledge of the good.

Pókey ár lá !!

Harpo is the one with a Jonathan Richman song though.

Then put one in your mouth, then return to the left pocket...

Howdy Buddo.

I was waiting for the actual argument in that NS piece. A few statements saying any comparison between Ireland and Palestine is a false equivalence but at no point did she make the effort to show why we should think so. Instead you get a non sequitur about Ireland having a small Jewish population?

I always thought this sounded like the Birthday Party, but it's been a while since I listened.