"Heaney derived from ''part of the folk-lore of where I grew up,'' an
event in which the Protestant paramilitaries killed the four brothers in 1920, as their bodies '' trailed along the
railway lines, over the sleepers as a kind of mutilation.'' (Parker 1993:107)"
iiste.org/Journals/ind...
The Financial Times reports that the US has broadened its war on Iran to the high seas, with a frigate sunk off Sri Lanka. Markets also react to global instability. #TomorrowsPapersToday
Not available in Ireland, it seems. Boris Johnson and Brexit did for us.
One of my favourite books, ever. But, if i remember correctly, only contains one "word".
Just finished it, thanks to @netgalley.bsky.social, and it's superb and captivating, but also very raw. And interesting diversions into Jung and dreams, for example.
This mock-up from the Guardian is rather eloquent
Gold star.
Gold star.
Is this love score business above board?
@brophylevey.bsky.social After almost 45 years in TBR, I read The King of a Rainy Country by Brigid Brophy (1956). A very good read - far from quaint and seemingly unrestrained. But those Irish "models" - "rather sad, lumpish and peasant-like." Oh dear:)
@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social
My very unread War and Peace had a great deal of untranslated French. More surprising was to find small amounts of untranslated French in my nearly-read Brigid Brophy's The King of a Rainy Country (1956). Admittedly, those pages feature a Frenchman.
Good work by Chris Murphy.
Have a look at Irish decentralisation. The senior people in the Treasury won't want to be at such a distance from the PM and Parliament. So there will be a London branch office, which will attract all the important work of the Treasury, and a "pretend" Treasury in Birmingham.
Arresting an old woman fir wearing a Pakestine jumper. Arresting @glinner.bsky.social for a Tweet, etc. They are so opposed to free speech.
Any other suggested designs?
@eugenekelly.bsky.social
A mysterious lunchtime drink was left on my table in a Dublin pub once, on my returning from the Gents'. I asked a passing barman was there a mistake and he said "John buys a drink for the house most days." Turned out it was true - John had won well on the national lottery.
Has @theguardian.com no way of knowing who already contributes on a recurring basis? A refinement of targeting would be welcome.
Looks like a lad that used to live in Buckingham Palace.
He'll need a better electrician than the one who did the cctv for Epstein's cell.
Mitchell features prominently in Colm McCann's novel Translantic, as a peacemaker in northern Ireland, but in such a cringewothy (re. personal life), worshipful way that I just knew, long before Epstein, that something would emerge.
Vermin in ermine
Streamlining Valentine's Day - Bologna Centrale.
At Swim Two Birds, when i first read it over 50 years ago, gave reality a good shake and pushed out my idea of what a book could do.
Congrats on the monthly bulletin, which I've just read. There's so much information and the What's On is so full of literary events, and not just in Dublin.
The greatest indeed.
Great to hear Benedict Kiely's unique voice again. Perfect for Sunday morning, as was Ciarán MacMathúna's.
Any hope of persuading Trump to visit a grassy knoll in Davos (or anywhere)?
