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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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Met the guy who wrote it last week. Interesting backstory for someone writing for the Express....
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If they had that many dub records I can't imagine they'd use the V word.
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Indeed.
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One big difference between gigs here and Dublin. Oldies go out here, so even stuff that codes young will have enough grey heads for me not to feel conspicuous. Although this might not hold for Charlie - but it might....
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'Ambient philistinism' is a phrase I picked up yesterday that describes this kind of thing pretty well.
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I wore a linen jacket today, marketed as 'tropical wear', made in Leeds, at a time when Joyce was still alive. One jacket, containing multitudes.
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Telling people I was going to 'Aln-Wick' for the weekend, instead of 'Annick'
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Coleraine?
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Ulysses
A Dance to the Music of Time
The Rings of Saturn
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Know of, and on the list for the library tomorrow!
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True enough.
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Someone suggested to me during the week that we'd end up being 'rescued' by a bespoke Marshall plan from the US that an all -Ireland SF govt would swallow whole. Depressing, but credible.
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Fair bit of Celtic mist swirling round in this.
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New - Honest Jon's
2nd Hand - Flashback (the Islington one)
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Jesus, I missed that line.
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Seurat megamix:
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The other factor is that they see marks as subtractive from a perfect 100, rather than additive. So whereas they see marks as indicating penalities applied, we mark by awarding numerical values to the work done. Which paradoxically, results in a lower resulting score.
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It's a fairly common occurance that when I return a mark to a visiting US student, I'll get a rapid response email complaining about the low score. One aspect of this is the fact that 70+ is a first in UK/ Irish money, whereas it's relatively in US coinage.
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Yes, actually more accurately more faith in the constituent parts of the UK post break-up...
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And the US isn't? I've actually more faith in the ability of the UK to redeem itself TBH.
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Not just the US, obvisouly. The only interview carried yesterday on R4 concerning Israel/ Iran was from an ex- US ambassador bleating about 'Israel's right to defend itself'.
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Yes exactly.
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It's also a particular post-imperial fear of depth for what you might find there. Panorama and montage not to reveal but to distract and de-mobilise.
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My dad's pet compliment on my mother's cooking was 'you'd pay five pounds for that in a restaurant'
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Awful stuff. The great British talent for laughing/sneering/ sighing at the absurdity/ dreadfulness/ impossibility of others to excuse utter inertia.
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Yeah. Absent the Cork keeper, could have been five. Finally not firing it up to the big man we don't have and instead working the space in the box really well. Feel like something more might be about to click into place too...
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Middle of next year at the earliest, was the whisper from 'a source'
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He's an idiot. Even when he's writing about something trivial he's annoying. Shouldn't be let near anything serious. I had an encounter during the week with some people from the north who would code left who we're all about the 'legitimate concerns' too. Long way to go.
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Anomie and Bonhomie pretty much sums up Christmas
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Guilty
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Plus the endless 'somebody do something' pleas, rather than, you know doing something - or when something is done 'no! stop giving them a pretext!'
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We're intrepid outdoorsy types compared to northern English people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxXb...
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It's undeniably Van for Belfast.
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Huge congrats.