Joe Culley
@therealculls.bsky.social
Writer, editor (ex Irish Times, ex History Ireland - nearly ex altogether).
History, Golf, Italia.
Now doing private walking tours of Dublin - General, Literary, Rebellion - with info@walkingtours.ie.
History, Golf, Italia.
Now doing private walking tours of Dublin - General, Literary, Rebellion - with info@walkingtours.ie.
For a dead guy, Jeffrey gets around.
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
For a dead guy, Jeffrey gets around.
An appropriate if subliminal Ulysses reference in @frankie49.bsky.social's Diary today.
#Throwaway
@samslote.bsky.social
#Throwaway
@samslote.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
An appropriate if subliminal Ulysses reference in @frankie49.bsky.social's Diary today.
#Throwaway
@samslote.bsky.social
#Throwaway
@samslote.bsky.social
Better get the washing in.
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Better get the washing in.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
May I please ask any of you who might have known Belfast in the bad times: is it in even the very least possible way credible that a Catholic family pub would be frequented by British soldiers?
@martindoyle.bsky.social
#Trespasses
@martindoyle.bsky.social
#Trespasses
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
May I please ask any of you who might have known Belfast in the bad times: is it in even the very least possible way credible that a Catholic family pub would be frequented by British soldiers?
@martindoyle.bsky.social
#Trespasses
@martindoyle.bsky.social
#Trespasses
@iaincartergolf.bsky.social
Looks like Eddie's going to have to go mighty low this week:
Looks like Eddie's going to have to go mighty low this week:
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
@iaincartergolf.bsky.social
Looks like Eddie's going to have to go mighty low this week:
Looks like Eddie's going to have to go mighty low this week:
No, it fucking doesn't.
It reflects elite corruption.
It reflects elite corruption.
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
No, it fucking doesn't.
It reflects elite corruption.
It reflects elite corruption.
Batten down the hatcheries
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Batten down the hatcheries
From today's @IrishTimes
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
From today's @IrishTimes
This is one of several hills I might die on:
Dear @IrishTimes, if a pedestrian is hit by a motorised vehicle it is NOT a collision.
Dear @IrishTimes, if a pedestrian is hit by a motorised vehicle it is NOT a collision.
November 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is one of several hills I might die on:
Dear @IrishTimes, if a pedestrian is hit by a motorised vehicle it is NOT a collision.
Dear @IrishTimes, if a pedestrian is hit by a motorised vehicle it is NOT a collision.
Here's one for you:
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Here's one for you:
Does AFP now use bots to write its reports?
* still, remarkable story
* still, remarkable story
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Does AFP now use bots to write its reports?
* still, remarkable story
* still, remarkable story
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Utter nonsense @nytimes
October 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Utter nonsense @nytimes
A local development (and no, this is not the world I live in).
Two things:
Look at that two-storey gable window (which I think I like, though it offers a magnificent vista only of the side of the neighbour's wall), and
Just how big was the garden of the original house.
Two things:
Look at that two-storey gable window (which I think I like, though it offers a magnificent vista only of the side of the neighbour's wall), and
Just how big was the garden of the original house.
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A local development (and no, this is not the world I live in).
Two things:
Look at that two-storey gable window (which I think I like, though it offers a magnificent vista only of the side of the neighbour's wall), and
Just how big was the garden of the original house.
Two things:
Look at that two-storey gable window (which I think I like, though it offers a magnificent vista only of the side of the neighbour's wall), and
Just how big was the garden of the original house.
I do my best to be green. Was going to buy the "if you care" foil - except it costs just short of FOUR times the regular stuff.
October 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I do my best to be green. Was going to buy the "if you care" foil - except it costs just short of FOUR times the regular stuff.
Quite late to this (came out nearly two years ago) - but my God, what a stunner. Not a loose sentence, smilies that snap like fresh elastic, dialogue that would please Elmore Leonard. The equal to Kevin Barry.
Funny, moving, characters I cared about. I could see a sequel.
#ColinBarrett
#WildHouses
Funny, moving, characters I cared about. I could see a sequel.
#ColinBarrett
#WildHouses
October 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Quite late to this (came out nearly two years ago) - but my God, what a stunner. Not a loose sentence, smilies that snap like fresh elastic, dialogue that would please Elmore Leonard. The equal to Kevin Barry.
Funny, moving, characters I cared about. I could see a sequel.
#ColinBarrett
#WildHouses
Funny, moving, characters I cared about. I could see a sequel.
#ColinBarrett
#WildHouses
Clondalkin
@IrishTimes
@IrishTimes
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Clondalkin
@IrishTimes
@IrishTimes
Afraid to say I don't think John will be troubling the Booker committee this time. I think he was trying to write - dare I say it - almost a comic novel (by his standards). A ghost story, a murder mystery, a muddle.
And certainly 70 pages too long.
And certainly 70 pages too long.
October 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Afraid to say I don't think John will be troubling the Booker committee this time. I think he was trying to write - dare I say it - almost a comic novel (by his standards). A ghost story, a murder mystery, a muddle.
And certainly 70 pages too long.
And certainly 70 pages too long.
30 years "of history"
Breaks my heart, this incompetence.
Breaks my heart, this incompetence.
October 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
30 years "of history"
Breaks my heart, this incompetence.
Breaks my heart, this incompetence.