Anois, Os Ard is back, just in time for yr long weekend. Wrote about dreamestate indie-pop, folk-horror soundscapes, notes on becoming and the apocalypse, ‘90s internet star ambience, a breakthrough rap masterclass, some drone stuff, some club stuff, all sorts! open.substack.com/pub/anoisosa...

I'll be in Trinity next Weds giving a guest lecture, a mere 46 years after leaving midway through second year of my degree to pursue something or other. Talk about the long way around. Do come along if you're in Dublin. bit.ly/4dYIHMf

Wtf this is horrifying.

"He seemed to believe... that to abandon his work meant giving in to what fascism wanted for him: an existence so devoid of value + meaning that it would be indistinguishable from death. He held on to his briefcase not until it was too late but because it was too late."

BBC Verify confirms that the United States killed 110 young children, in their school, on just the first day of this war. www.bbc.com/news/article...

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

The second, final installment of my interview w/ historian Peter Linebaugh on @thedigradio.bsky.social: Luddites' machine-breaking revolt, the centrality of capital punishment in consolidation of capitalist state, remaking struggle against enclosure for 21st century. thedigradio.com/podcast/brea...

Big day out for the parish. Unfortunately I won't be in the parish. To find out why you'll need to watch this film 😉🍿

All out this Tuesday, 6pm against #ThePoxtonHotel injunction! A British hotel group seeking to silence a neighbouring club. Izakaya isn’t noise pollution. It’s part of Dublin’s cultural fabric. Hotels rise. Rents climb. Venues close. The city dies. Image from Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin's Instagram.

Filmed over four years across kitchen tables, protests and public meetings, this documentary follows a city fighting for itself as a broken property market chews up its citizens for profit. Rooted in Dublin, it reveals global forces reshaping cities, where homes are assets and people are obstacles.

I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left? Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.

An analogy for this is research chemicals and synthetic drugs. Labs are well able to keep ahead of legislation. Yet politicians like this go all out in their condemnation and efforts to ban them. When it's X enabling CSAM? Ara shur look, each to their own -shur isn't technology mad lad...

These people are being held on remand as punishment. Bail is routinely offered for more serious offences. The Home Secretary is refusing to meet their representatives. Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns | Prison News | Al Jazeera share.google/rXo7ju6GqlM2...

Really sad to hear this, Asad was a total genius! Remembering this Black Panther movie which turns into both a meditation on Huey Newton's political thought and an appreciation of Detroit Techno act Drexciya.... One of a kind. RIP viewpointmag.com/2018/03/05/b...

This is shite. The Complex serves so many artist tribes in Ireland. All artists need is a space, they'll do the rest because they've had to. It's so frustrating that €10m can be given to the NFL but Dublin CC can't open a basic event space for artists without trying to commercialise everything.

I wrote about The Complex’s first experience of eviction in this paper. In the years since they have clearly embedded themselves in this area of the city and contributed to its vibrancy. We need to protect cultural institutions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Rest in Power to a real one. pirate.ie/archive/inte...

"Can places like KXLU survive, when the tech pull [is] squarely in the opposite direction? 'One administrator can kill a college 📻station,” @katejewell.bsky.social said, while adding that she feels the health of such stations is strong [bc] DIY camaraderie + community feel so urgent..."

My opening remarks danmcquillan.org/irish_parlia... were described by committee members as 'blunt' and 'sceptical about AI, to say the least'

Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.

The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up is back ☁️ Harps and bodhráns reimagined as ambient instruments, surrealist avant-folk, fairy forts, some Prefab Sprout-style sweetness, uilleann pipes, motorik psych, Pavement covers and a tribute to Manchán Magan anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

When the dust settles, I hope we remember that on the precise evening Trump (a) pulled his cultural critics off TV and (b) designated his political enemies as terrorists, the UK was giving him every honour imaginable, and glorying in its "special relationship" with his regime.

Why has Gazans’ hunger attained the status of ‘moral crisis’ when Israel’s genocidal slaughter did not? Another great piece by Mark O’Connell.

"[Microsoft Azure] has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Microsoft continues to aid genocide

Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵 Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

Please sign and share this petition calling on the government to overturn its disgraceful refusal and to issue visas to the children from GAA Palestine for their trip to Ireland. #FreeGAAPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le...

New show tonight! We're back with another drone and ambient webinar at 9pm. with usic from @k8carr.bsky.social and @dvddnh.bsky.social, @colonialskyway.bsky.social, @isolatedcommunity.bsky.social, @dunksunk.bsky.social + releases from @quietdetails.bsky.social, @auralcanyon.bsky.social and more!

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work: zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

You'd be pressed to name a more crucial individual in this silly music thing, both in the foreground and background. Such a warm and generous man, absolutely fucking brutal news today

'Understanding Ireland’s dependency as a defining feature of Irish economic development allows us to see how the State’s undemocratic actions to support global extractive industries, erode our neutrality, and fail on Palestine are part of the same political economic matrix.'

Reading about the bitter scenes in 1958 when qualifying rounds were introduced for the fleadh and Kilfenora Céilí band sensationally fell at the provincial hurdle. Blur and Oasis style shenanigans. In this excellent book...

Once an massive illegal dump in Priorswood is cleared away, what should go on the site? The council met local residents Monday to talk about options. Previous ideas have included housing, sports facilities, and a Traveller resource centre. www.dublininquirer.c...

Delighted to read this. It's over six years since we reported on this @dublininquirer.com and it's a testament to the perseverance of the community that this is finally happening. A major victory against the council's antipathy and I hope they get the facilities they want on the remediated land.

Trying to get my head round how this could make it to print. Many warning signs for all of us

RIP Paul Durcan. This was the first poem I read by him, and it absolutely broke me.

Bumping this - if you're in Dublin next Weds, and you're interested in contemporary Irish music, politics and culture. I'd love to see you at my book launch. A book that's already a bargain will be available at an even more enticing price!

I'm in no way biased. This is definitely the show of the summer (even if it is in Cork) ❤️ www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/ope...

A Dublin electronic artist moves on from frogs and Celtic futurism, to DIY bagpipes. Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Currents, at The Complex. www.dublininquirer.c...

BREAKING: Israeli Forces Kill 12-Year-Old Eyewitness to Rafah Paramedic Massacre Mohammed Bardawil, 12, was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the Mawasi area of Gaza this week.

"Surely, the same Micheál Martin who was just a few weeks ago japing about Ireland’s housing crisis in the Oval Office with a bona fide fascist should have some empathy for statements made during a performance." This week's Surrealing in the Years.

NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh’s north Dublin home – which The Ditch revealed was registered under the alias PB McDonnacha – is being advertised to rent on a short-term letting site for more than €10,000 a week. He was to be government’s new housing tsar. www.ontheditch.com/nama-chief-c...

Alternating Current's radio schedule kicking off this morning. Lock in below! listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home

Dublin Digital Radio is broadcasting a new work of sonic fiction from Jane Deasy and I this Sunday at 1pm as part of Alternating Current. The line up is stacked. The full programme is below. Get your tickets and come celebrate Bealtaine together 🔥 listen.dublindigitalradio.com/alternating-...

Dropping at NOON! With just over a month to go until the 2025 edition kicks off, here's a documentary rewind to some of that golden summer magic from last year's Open Ear Festival on Sherkin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=os-z...