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'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.'

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Moving forward I’ll be rebranding my idiosyncratic spelling mistakes and unique grammatical errors in emails and documents as “bespoke artisanal craftsmanship”

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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...

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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...

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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.

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

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

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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!

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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...

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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...

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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.

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"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.

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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...

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

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Very excited that my new album, NEST, will be released on @krimkram.bsky.social in June! Also very excited that NEST’s launch gig will be on June 18th at St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral as part of Cork Midsummer Festival, where I get to play the cathedral's brilliant, loud, and fierce organ!

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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-...

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Such a great doc from @rasherst.bsky.social and crew. Getting me sceitimíní for Open Ear 2025! So grateful to the Open Ear crew for the opportunity to compose my piece, 'NEST', for the 2024 festival and perform it in the amazing Franciscan Friary on Sherkin. More news coming on NEST next week! :))

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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...

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Lovely short film from @rasherst.bsky.social on the annual pilgrimage to Sherkin.

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Glad to see all this discussion of community education. Just a reminder that I’ve made all of my course material — 40 classes, from methods to maps, knowledge infrastructures to local media, digital ethnography to digital urbanism — freely available for 20+ years :)

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Ian in the Irish Times 🥰 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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This is the raison d'être of Palantir as a company. From inception, their purpose has been to provide the data infrastructure for fascism. They create the "ontology layer" of fascism—helping to give its ideological goals a material reality. For decades, Palantir has been working toward this moment.

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Welcome, friends! Come learn about our book and sign up for some exerpts, interviews and fun extras in the run up to its release: friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...

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My god Amina Claudine Myers at Counterflows last night was transcendental. If music ever could put the world to right.

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Announcing issue 1 of fallow, a new literary journal, featuring new work by @evagriff.bsky.social @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social Oisin Fagan, Ellen Dillon, Gabriel Josipivici, Helen Charman, Chris Beausang, Pascale Sardin @rhiansasseen.bsky.social & Patrick Nathan

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Hi 🌸 The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up for March is here and it is packed. Alto-fiddle experiments, DIY doom, a returning champ of Irish hip-hop, various shades of minimalism, bedroom pop, club stuff, all sorts. Plus, the much hyped Haunted Mound collective's connection to the auld sod.

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In Ireland, they kill the wheat in accordance with Islamic law

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whereolivetreesweep.com

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Rereading @danmcquillan.bsky.social and: "What's at stake with AI is not merely bias and unfairness but assimilation into far-right political projects. For fascist ideologues who glorify violence, AI's tendencies towards epistemic, structural and administrative violence are not flaws but features."

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“Any approach that leaves to a few countries such as Ireland to condemn what are international breaches of humanitarian principles and international law will rightly be seen by future generations as their having by their silences been complicit in collective punishment”

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Long shot but myself and my partner are looking for a place to live in cork city or suburbs asap, if you hear of anything please do let me know! :)

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If you're in Glasgow on Friday night do come @glasgowshort.bsky.social 📺

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It's often less prominent in his public persona these days, but there's still a current of "Scots-Irish" ethnic rhetoric which pops up when needed in J. D. Vancian fascism Take this crap published last year (from a far-right rag, but via the Internet Archive) web.archive.org/web/20241003...

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Great interview with Conor McCabe on James Connolly's early writings here from Turning Earth soundcloud.com/turningearth...

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"They are psychedelic; a happening, a trip." I wrote about the astonishing carpets of the Mitchell Library, as the first story on Small Finds. It's free to read. Please consider subscribing so I can share my work with you. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...

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Featuring Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh on KRAAK, @sunkenhum.bsky.social on @longformeditions.bsky.social, @aoboyle.bsky.social, @nyahhrecords.bsky.social and whole bunch more

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these stories about printers or scanners or bikesheds are such switch and bait distractions. these things are drops in the ocean to the state coffers. we have billions in apple tax! everyone squabbles about this stuff while we have record homeless.

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Free oral history workshop, Tue 25th at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Plenty of participation, and I'll definitely be available to chat. Made possible through a @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History comment project Sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...

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Can’t stop thinking about this label/mail order service that has a whole section for black listed customers lol

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Back on Dublin Digital Radio tomorrow with a new slot of 2pm! It's a repeat of my radio essay on Ireland's boglands first broadcast on Cashmere Radio for Signals2Noise focus week last May.

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A Kurdish woman asked to be buried “in a handful of soil” in Ireland – but her body was sent to Turkey anyway. In a note she left behind, she’d written, “Do not give my corpse to the oppressors.” More here: dublininquirer.com/2025/02/19/a...

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Announcing: Dublin Inquirer Summer School 2025. Come learn about navigating local government, making Freedom of Information Act requests, starting your own publication, and more. Supported by a community grant from Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social. dublininquirer.com/2025/02/19/a...

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The Irish government’s plan to stimulate housing supply is to keep rents high and drive them higher, oblivious to a decade of record high rents having failed to improve supply www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Dublin Digital Radio are launching their new studio tomorrow. Blood, sweat and tears have gone into making a new community orientated radio space in the heart of Dublin's increasingly heartless city center. Pop down to Chatham Row and celebrate with us! 📻 djmag.com/news/dublin-...

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The cognitive dissonance of DIY organisations, artists and venues only having a web presence on Facebook, Insta, Twitter, etc.

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Oh no! Did someone use your work to train their AI? Didn’t they pay you?

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