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I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift.ie
Provide Safe Shelter For All People Seeking Safety
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November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift.ie
@johncreedon.bsky.social John that song 'I Can't Field At Home In This World' puts me in mind of Lambchop's 'The Man Who Loved Beer'...the theme of it, if you get me! Spiritual Lambchop:) Pauly
September 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social John that song 'I Can't Field At Home In This World' puts me in mind of Lambchop's 'The Man Who Loved Beer'...the theme of it, if you get me! Spiritual Lambchop:) Pauly
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A song by The Street Leagues drawing on the pain and desperation of poverty experienced in Dublin over a century ago but continued to resonate for generations. #joerodgers
A song by The Street Leagues drawing on the pain and desperation of poverty experienced in Dublin over a century ago but continued to resonate for generations. #joerodgers
Robbie's Song - The Street Leagues
YouTube video by Phil Healy
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September 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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A song by The Street Leagues drawing on the pain and desperation of poverty experienced in Dublin over a century ago but continued to resonate for generations. #joerodgers
A song by The Street Leagues drawing on the pain and desperation of poverty experienced in Dublin over a century ago but continued to resonate for generations. #joerodgers
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One of three songs recorded a couple of weeks ago...products of a project started and guided by the brilliant Joe Rodgers. I hope and trust he is pleased w the results. He asked me to be involved in three projects over the years...changed my goddam life. ❤️
One of three songs recorded a couple of weeks ago...products of a project started and guided by the brilliant Joe Rodgers. I hope and trust he is pleased w the results. He asked me to be involved in three projects over the years...changed my goddam life. ❤️
Straws in the Sackville - The Street Leagues
YouTube video by Phil Healy
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September 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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One of three songs recorded a couple of weeks ago...products of a project started and guided by the brilliant Joe Rodgers. I hope and trust he is pleased w the results. He asked me to be involved in three projects over the years...changed my goddam life. ❤️
One of three songs recorded a couple of weeks ago...products of a project started and guided by the brilliant Joe Rodgers. I hope and trust he is pleased w the results. He asked me to be involved in three projects over the years...changed my goddam life. ❤️
@johncreedon.bsky.social Room To Roam with the great Noel Bridgeman on drums! Gorgeous album, great band. Pauly
August 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social Room To Roam with the great Noel Bridgeman on drums! Gorgeous album, great band. Pauly
@johncreedon.bsky.social John, I don't know you know 'I Don't Believe In The Sun' by the Magnetic Fields but I wonder if Stephin Merrit has heard 'Raining In My Heart' by Buddy Holly! Just a similar heart-broken take on good weather:)
August 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social John, I don't know you know 'I Don't Believe In The Sun' by the Magnetic Fields but I wonder if Stephin Merrit has heard 'Raining In My Heart' by Buddy Holly! Just a similar heart-broken take on good weather:)
@johncreedon.bsky.social ah John, two of the best there w Ron n Rufus. Do you see Ron's regular 'dad jokes' on Bluesky such as:
Waiter: Would you like to hear today's special?
Me: Yes, please!
Waiter: Today is special!
Hope all are having a lovely special day, John :)
Waiter: Would you like to hear today's special?
Me: Yes, please!
Waiter: Today is special!
Hope all are having a lovely special day, John :)
July 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social ah John, two of the best there w Ron n Rufus. Do you see Ron's regular 'dad jokes' on Bluesky such as:
Waiter: Would you like to hear today's special?
Me: Yes, please!
Waiter: Today is special!
Hope all are having a lovely special day, John :)
Waiter: Would you like to hear today's special?
Me: Yes, please!
Waiter: Today is special!
Hope all are having a lovely special day, John :)
Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le... @uplift.ie
Let Them Play
Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine
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July 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le... @uplift.ie
@johncreedon.bsky.social John can a Beatles or Elvis Costello (or similar) song be put on the list some night for Joe Rodgers: drummer of The Ground Will Shake, The Cherry Brogues, Eva Dallas & The Rockets. Passed away suddenly yesterday. He was everything good about music, family and friendship.
June 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social John can a Beatles or Elvis Costello (or similar) song be put on the list some night for Joe Rodgers: drummer of The Ground Will Shake, The Cherry Brogues, Eva Dallas & The Rockets. Passed away suddenly yesterday. He was everything good about music, family and friendship.
@johncreedon.bsky.social Is it just me John or does Judy Craig in The Chiffons sound a little like Zooey Deschanel? Or vice-versa. Pauly, Fairview
May 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social Is it just me John or does Judy Craig in The Chiffons sound a little like Zooey Deschanel? Or vice-versa. Pauly, Fairview
@johncreedon.bsky.social John a big happy birthday to a 16 year old Johnny Cash fan, my very cool nephew Sean Rodgers! He got a Fender Squier electric this morning and hasn't stopped playing:) Music is in good hands. Pauly, Fairview
May 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social John a big happy birthday to a 16 year old Johnny Cash fan, my very cool nephew Sean Rodgers! He got a Fender Squier electric this morning and hasn't stopped playing:) Music is in good hands. Pauly, Fairview
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In the happy punch of an REM wknd. Sun shining, blasted this song in the car for the teens yesterday not realising REM just released a superb remix to raise funds for pro-democracy news outlets. This band just confirms for me hope is real. The joy of gratitude. 🙏🏻
In the happy punch of an REM wknd. Sun shining, blasted this song in the car for the teens yesterday not realising REM just released a superb remix to raise funds for pro-democracy news outlets. This band just confirms for me hope is real. The joy of gratitude. 🙏🏻
Radio Free Europe
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May 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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In the happy punch of an REM wknd. Sun shining, blasted this song in the car for the teens yesterday not realising REM just released a superb remix to raise funds for pro-democracy news outlets. This band just confirms for me hope is real. The joy of gratitude. 🙏🏻
In the happy punch of an REM wknd. Sun shining, blasted this song in the car for the teens yesterday not realising REM just released a superb remix to raise funds for pro-democracy news outlets. This band just confirms for me hope is real. The joy of gratitude. 🙏🏻
Caring more should be doable.
Giving a few quid definitely is. I don't know which of these is best/still reputable but if anyone has a better way to give to the aid agencies on the ground, let me know:
www.wfp.org/support-us/s...
www.concern.net/donate/sudan...
www.savethechildren.net/sudan
Giving a few quid definitely is. I don't know which of these is best/still reputable but if anyone has a better way to give to the aid agencies on the ground, let me know:
www.wfp.org/support-us/s...
www.concern.net/donate/sudan...
www.savethechildren.net/sudan
April 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Caring more should be doable.
Giving a few quid definitely is. I don't know which of these is best/still reputable but if anyone has a better way to give to the aid agencies on the ground, let me know:
www.wfp.org/support-us/s...
www.concern.net/donate/sudan...
www.savethechildren.net/sudan
Giving a few quid definitely is. I don't know which of these is best/still reputable but if anyone has a better way to give to the aid agencies on the ground, let me know:
www.wfp.org/support-us/s...
www.concern.net/donate/sudan...
www.savethechildren.net/sudan
@patrickfreyne.bsky.social Thank you for writing these two disturbing but essential accounts of conditions, experiences & suffering of huge numbers of desperate, vulnerable people. This has only been name-checked in my own awareness of world events. Utterly heartbreaking. All should read these.
There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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‘My son was killed in front of my eyes. Three bullets in his chest’: Patrick Freyne in Chad’s desert camps
An unforgiving conflict between rival military factions has killed 150,000 people. Another 12 million people are displaced, many fleeing to a huge desert camp in eastern Chad. Photographs by Chris Mad...
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April 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@patrickfreyne.bsky.social Thank you for writing these two disturbing but essential accounts of conditions, experiences & suffering of huge numbers of desperate, vulnerable people. This has only been name-checked in my own awareness of world events. Utterly heartbreaking. All should read these.
@alazarussoul.bsky.social Another night of blinding emotion...als in their element, the crowd living every note, every word. Everybody simultaneously rooted to the ground and floating. A joy.
April 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
@alazarussoul.bsky.social Another night of blinding emotion...als in their element, the crowd living every note, every word. Everybody simultaneously rooted to the ground and floating. A joy.
@johncreedon.bsky.social John I'm still reeling from 'The Night I Heard Carouso Sing' you played the other night. You know how a song can sort of take over your thinking for a while, in a positive way? I love when that happens:) The power of a gentle art. Thanks, amigo. Pauly, Fairview
April 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social John I'm still reeling from 'The Night I Heard Carouso Sing' you played the other night. You know how a song can sort of take over your thinking for a while, in a positive way? I love when that happens:) The power of a gentle art. Thanks, amigo. Pauly, Fairview
'Wandering wears the workday dirt away...sky-blue Saturday'
March 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
'Wandering wears the workday dirt away...sky-blue Saturday'
@johncreedon.bsky.social Powerful Michael Nesmith vibes from that Steve Philips tune, John.
And of course top form with the Flaming Lips songs:)
Pauly, Fairview
And of course top form with the Flaming Lips songs:)
Pauly, Fairview
February 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social Powerful Michael Nesmith vibes from that Steve Philips tune, John.
And of course top form with the Flaming Lips songs:)
Pauly, Fairview
And of course top form with the Flaming Lips songs:)
Pauly, Fairview
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A straight take on grief, particularly when the process involves negotiating dufficult feelings around the relationship with the deceased.
Impossible to think anyone recently experiencing or stuck in their grief would not get a lot from this.
#katrionaosullivan
A straight take on grief, particularly when the process involves negotiating dufficult feelings around the relationship with the deceased.
Impossible to think anyone recently experiencing or stuck in their grief would not get a lot from this.
#katrionaosullivan
Grieving a complicated relationship - Dr Katriona O'Sullivan
"If the relationship is unresolved and they die, it's ok to feel sad that they're gone" - so says Dr Katriona O'Sullivan, Psychology lecturer at Maynooth University, who talked about grieving the peop...
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February 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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A straight take on grief, particularly when the process involves negotiating dufficult feelings around the relationship with the deceased.
Impossible to think anyone recently experiencing or stuck in their grief would not get a lot from this.
#katrionaosullivan
A straight take on grief, particularly when the process involves negotiating dufficult feelings around the relationship with the deceased.
Impossible to think anyone recently experiencing or stuck in their grief would not get a lot from this.
#katrionaosullivan
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Social commentary, and beautiful songwriting. What's not to like . @alazarussoul.bsky.social from last nights Tommy Tiernan show .
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A Lazarus Soul with Steve Wickham - The Dealers live on The Tommy Tiernan Show
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January 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Social commentary, and beautiful songwriting. What's not to like . @alazarussoul.bsky.social from last nights Tommy Tiernan show .
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@johncreedon.bsky.social We're sitting around our kitchen chatting about the year, listening to Creedon! Family in Dublin, Clare, Armagh, Boston, Madrid and Mexico texting they are all also listening to Creedo!! Happy New Year from the O'Connors in Fairview to our gorgeous family! Pauly
December 31, 2024 at 11:18 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social We're sitting around our kitchen chatting about the year, listening to Creedon! Family in Dublin, Clare, Armagh, Boston, Madrid and Mexico texting they are all also listening to Creedo!! Happy New Year from the O'Connors in Fairview to our gorgeous family! Pauly
@johncreedon.bsky.social John, A happy birthday to our mam Marie! When the Beatles played in Dublin, she threw an orange and knocked a Garda's hat off. She said it was her 'inner scamp':) Any tune will do. Pauly, Fairview
November 26, 2024 at 8:11 PM
@johncreedon.bsky.social John, A happy birthday to our mam Marie! When the Beatles played in Dublin, she threw an orange and knocked a Garda's hat off. She said it was her 'inner scamp':) Any tune will do. Pauly, Fairview