John Hughes
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Soccer Guy nails it. 🇺🇸
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London Review of Books
about 16 hours ago
‘In line with economic success, Irish self-confidence and self-belief has soared. A united Ireland might be a leap in the dark, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.’ Patrick Cockburn on the case for Irish reunification.
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Patrick Cockburn · Leap in the Dark: Irish Unity
What would happen if these two very different societies were united, when their institutions and attitudes have evolved...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n12/patrick-cockburn/leap-in-the-dark
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about 16 hours ago
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Now this is poetry.
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Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty. Heartworn Highways
YouTube video by The Record Selector
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about 17 hours ago
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I've been reading a number of poetry magazines lately. What strikes me is how dull most of them are. There is a terrible sameness to them. I think they are a very good illustration of what Don Paterson was getting at when he said these day publishers place more importance on identity than talent.
about 19 hours ago
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I was in Clones recently and was surprised to see the ground was still named after him.
3 days ago
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Yeats author says seeking donations to visit his grave is 'scraping the bottom of the barrel' | OceanFM
A well-known WB Yeats author and scholar has described the decision to seek donations to visit the poet's grave at Drumcliffe as miserable and scraping the bott...
https://www.oceanfm.ie/northwest-today-show/yeats-author-says-seeking-donations-to-visit-his-grave-is-scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel-1310013?utm_campaign=web&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=web
3 days ago
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Summer has come to Rossknowlagh.
3 days ago
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Iconic backdrop to Eoin's race in Derry #392.
5 days ago
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My son was complaining about the anti- social hours of his summer job. I told him he doesn't know he's living. In my day....
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Italo Calvino: escapism.
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A Frank Ormsby poem in today's Irish Times.
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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫
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Italo Calvino, writing home after crossing the Atlantic on a luxury ocean liner filled with aging rich people: “Long live Socialism. Long live Aviation.”
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Neon Deutschland
7 days ago
Hydration Break.
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Don Paterson in Poetry London.
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Came across photos from long ago today. New York 1989.
8 days ago
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Italo Calvino: The Literature Machine. I've never read "Ulysses".
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9 days ago
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From The Down Recorder 1837.
11 days ago
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40 years ago today. "Dear God, long live football."🇦🇷
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11 days ago
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I watched Army of Shadows again this evening. A magnificent film . Melville is a wonderful filmmaker. This is one of the greatest openings to any film I have ever seen.
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L'armée des Ombres - Début (Arc de Triomphe) [HD]
YouTube video by AlexandreG
https://youtu.be/1jKOdYC6-O4?is=SGjTIebHkoptorCH
11 days ago
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It wouldn't be the Donegal rally without some young lad hanging out of an old Lexus swigging a bottle of Buckie.
12 days ago
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In town yesterday and it was like being back in the summer of 1985.
12 days ago
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Guillaume Apollinaire
13 days ago
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Back from Frank Ormsby's book launch in the Seamus Heaney Homeplace. I really like this poem. A nod to the Chinese poets of the Tang dynasty.
14 days ago
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When in London recently I picked this up for a fiver at one of the last remaining second-hand bookshops on Charing Cross Road. A great find.
15 days ago
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John Fuller. Such a fine poet.
15 days ago
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The Daily Telegraph thinks God is English. Eamon Dunphy and Bill O'Herlihy were great.
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16 days ago
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A photograph I took of Dermot Healy on a visit we made to the grave of W.B. Yeats in Drumcliffe in the summer of 1991.
17 days ago
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Another Dermot Healy.
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Dermot Healy
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Interview with Frank Ormsby.
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Waylon was born 89 years ago today.
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Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) (American Outlaws: Live at Nassau Colise...
YouTube video by HighwaymenVEVO
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18 days ago
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The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia (Live) - OFFICIAL
YouTube video by The Rolling Stones
https://youtu.be/tIfQipkkOqs
19 days ago
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Having a 70s Saturday night.
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Bob Marley & The Wailers - Stir It Up (Live at The Old Grey Whistle, 1973)
YouTube video by Bob Marley
https://youtu.be/rf8GjhXvOjU?is=PQTwDOOqwVq6SDqY
19 days ago
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I'm in Monaghan tonight and I can hear the sound of silage being cut in the darkness.
20 days ago
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Michael Donaghy.
21 days ago
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The National
about 2 months ago
🎶Absolutely amazing scenes in Wales as Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth - set to be Wales's first pro-independence first minister - is interrupted by an impromptu rendition of the Welsh national anthem
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Liam Carson
22 days ago
Poem about Belfast by Maurice Craig. On my mind a lot these days.
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So fine words from Naomi Long and other politicians in the six counties. But what are they going to do now about the threat to democracy which Loyalist paramilitaries pose!
22 days ago
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I am tonight, as the younger generation say, triggered. In 1976 my family were put out of our home in North Belfast by Loyalist paramilitaries. I understand the fear and despair those poor people who were intimidated last night feel.
22 days ago
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It's not the Irish border. It's the British border in Ireland.
22 days ago
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22 days ago
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What has been seen in Belfast is nothing new. Ulster Loyalism has always been predicated upon hatred of the other and of those from within their own community who refuse to follow its hate-filled agenda. What has been done since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement to address this? Very little.
22 days ago
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'Walk over to the hill in the forest. Read yourself away to these clouds while there is time.' This poem by Harry Martinson is one to take solace in . It is for me anyway.
22 days ago
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What a dysfunctional place Northern Ireland is. The care assistants from other countries in my father's nursing home were sent home early yesterday with letters stating their occupation in case they were illegally stopped by masked racist thugs.
23 days ago
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Westlink
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Annaghmakerrig big sky.
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