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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

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

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

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

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

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.

'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'

Sometimes I hate my generation.

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

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

Britain's stupidest headteacher.

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

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.

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

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

Excellent goal from Meekison