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'I'll only ask you once more...' Rebel Notes: Popular Music and Conflict in Ireland (Beyond the Pale 2025) out now. https://www.beyondthepalebooks.com/
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T shirts being printed right now I bet

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The @wilcohq.bsky.social Sky Blue Sky line up is siiiiiiiiiiick

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[not my field anymore, but once upon a time] Philosophers don't really think that much about 'the meaning of life'

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Colm broadcasts on @noiseboxradio.com - does anyone involved in the service (or indeed anyone else on here) know him and his whereabouts offline?

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Most 'folk' music isn't that old, and much of it isn't made by 'the folks'

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I agree with the first bit (for the most part), but would quibble that 'the shared set of political facts' is predicated on a potentially fatal democratic deficit in terms of electoral fairness.

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'You would have been good together: you have no past and he has no future' - Tom Courtenay to Mia Farrow about Laurence Harvey in the enjoyably not very good 'A Dandy in Aspic'

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Sometimes I hate my generation.

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"ambient philistinism" is good. Lots of it about. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Today I'm celebrating Bloomsday by recreating Joyce's favourite activity: not being in Dublin.

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Britain's stupidest headteacher.

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Great project. If this intersects with anything you do, or did, anywhere in Ireland,do get in touch with Andrea.

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Just being reading Jonathan Rose on the intellectual life of the British working class and about weavers who would contrive ways to keep a book open in front of them as they worked, so great was the thirst for knowledge.

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Oh but this is feckin glorious. How wonderful for those kids! How delightful for Simonon!

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@bairishstudies.bsky.social @irishinstitute.bsky.social Looking for sources on reading, and in particular, working class reading in 19th century Ireland. Any prompts?

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Excellent goal from Meekison

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