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Socialist entertainer who performs as a music propagandist.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Desmond Egan
LISTENING TO JOHN McCORMACK like anything human music has body as well as soul in it so listening to him singing I hear not only the pure lyric note that note but with the exile’s ear I can also find our shared Athlone a flash of the Shannon down Friary Hill the streets the midland spires the faces the narrow laneways into the heart and feel his live words cutting through the tragic gloom of what is past recover briefly my parents this side of history my mother sitting in a boat to her island schoolhouse across the morning of Lough Ree or my father in his Thirties cap arm — I know it! — out the window as he drives McCormack himself going whispering to his concert with Archbishop Curley and The Blacksmith of Ballinalee it strikes like light along the river below the Mathew Hall the old Promenade where his bronze looks homeward
October 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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July 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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July 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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June 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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April 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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March 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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March 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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“And all these thousands, all these tens and hundreds of thousands of people, of frightened, questioning eyes, all these young and old faces, all these dark- and fair-haired beauties, these bald and hunchbacked old men, and these timid adolescents — all were caught up in a single flood, a flood that swallowed up reason, and splendid human science, and maidenly love, and childish wonder, and the coughing of the old, and the human heart.”
January 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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RIP
The Design by Michael Longley Sometimes the quilts were white for weddings, the design Made up of stitches and the shadows cast by stitches. And the quilts for funerals? How do you sew the night?
January 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Deep in the foggy dew.
January 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM