Anything less guaranteed to sell than a "prominent rugby player's autobiography" never gets a hardback release in Ireland. Instead we have the magical 'trade paperback'/airport paperback, which is the size of a hardback but not hardback. Unclear why.
06.03.2026 16:03
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You see this is the real Nancy. None of this modern muck.
06.03.2026 14:27
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OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS
18.02.2026 02:49
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Yeah tbh I know both American expats in Ireland and Irish expats in the US (and of course golfers from the television) and it is a natural thing. My apologies to the Cobra.
06.03.2026 11:51
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It's oddly neither one nor the other though - or it's primarily and initially American with some British pronunciations poking through.
06.03.2026 11:42
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I suppose 'doing an American accent incompletely' is the accent version of the rest of the shtick in that it's something a 12 year old boy might consider cool
06.03.2026 11:36
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Managed for about a decade to never hear Andrew Tate speak until watching a video just now where he says he's too smart to read books. What's going on with his accent!!!
06.03.2026 11:33
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Could it be local artist friends
05.03.2026 19:32
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NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED
05.03.2026 19:17
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Even Brazilian period oppression drama Secret Agent, set in like 1977, features an enormous and very colourful box of Rinso at one stage, I noticed the other day.
05.03.2026 15:45
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Israel is not even in Nato
05.03.2026 15:27
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60 European students are cold and wet. They are not built for these conditions. 60 European students have bought cheap umbrellas at the first opportunity and are taking up even more pavement area.
05.03.2026 15:10
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Chotiner: How long did you stay with Calypso?
Odysseus: Seven years
Chotiner: As her prisoner?
Odysseus: Yes. I was bewitched.
Chotiner: And another year with Circe?
Odysseus: It's complicated.
05.03.2026 00:50
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It is the season of 60 European secondary school students in Dublin. Turn a corner and you might encounter 60 European students. Looking at art? History? A park? The salad bar near my office? Good chance 60 European students will be there.
05.03.2026 11:18
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In my case in particular I would like authors to be more careful about the names of tiny villages in South Uist
04.03.2026 23:56
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I have never been to South Uist or Benbecula and I had to look up what a rig is in the context of mid 19th century island crofting, but one thing I do know is how to go on Google Maps to look for places and the evidence is pointing to a place called Iochdar not Lochdhar
04.03.2026 23:25
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Reading a (quite good) novel in which I suspect the author has consistently misrendered the South Uist townland of Iochdar (i.e. "lower") as Lochdhar. Accidentally??? Who knows
04.03.2026 23:20
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Dublin officially declared a kip in 1775 by its own Lord Mayor, demanding that the residents of the city clean up or he will hit them with the full consequences of the law
04.03.2026 16:02
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Why did Rubio say that though
02.03.2026 23:23
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A gorse bush in flower up the road has been getting me through monsoon season but I have been happy to see the bulbs and certain sheltered front garden cherry trees add further colour. Real we are so back vibe around the place.
02.03.2026 13:03
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Can I ask if your thinking on this is that her ethnic enmity towards various domestic and overseas Muslims is actually the same enmity as with northern Nigerians, or if it's an analogous enmity based on a new set of enemies she has in her capacity as English, informed by the prior style of enmity?
02.03.2026 10:54
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And also agree that Los Yanqs are in the mood to grip onto anything somewhat good and make it Not Just Entertaining But Urgent. Ironically Marty Supreme's "I was born in 1603" non sequitur does a better job of signalling immutable forces in a fresh way than the other two
02.03.2026 09:24
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Agree that the music was somehow both too stiff and too slick - it is somewhat difficult to present the intimacy of folk music in that type of film but you have to find a way to produce the goosebumps with the song rather than by visual effects indicating "this is profound"
02.03.2026 09:22
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Also had mixed feelings but was big into "the Irish have the deep musical magic, like the blues, the griots and George Clinton - but they use it for evil" as a driving idea
02.03.2026 08:42
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Luckily my garden soil is 40% old bricks and chunks of concrete so I can just kind of mine it out as I need it for practical purposes.
01.03.2026 22:40
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Further "gardening content on this side of the Atlantic is basically a form of skipdiving practice" evidence: Irish gardener on Instagram recommends weighing carrot net down with paving stones - "a lot of people would be ripping up paving, they would be going free if you knew someone ripping it up"
01.03.2026 22:39
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How to manually reset cat
28.02.2026 23:47
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Cat trapped in some kind of reverie, he's just been standing there purring and making dough for about 20 minutes
28.02.2026 23:47
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A Corkman of some description told RTΓ this is the recipe for the Cork accent, framing it predictably as a stinging rebuke of Dublin
28.02.2026 00:03
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