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markdoyle.bsky.social
Writer & historian. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. In Nashville. Wrote a book-and-a-half on Belfast, another on the Kinks. Next is John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3 plus histories of African people in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” - Mail on Sunday
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This is a heartbreaking, profound, transformative read, especially if you read it (as I did) during a long sleepless night.

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This is a heartbreaking, profound, transformative read, especially if you read it (as I did) during a long sleepless night.

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This is fab. Very greatful to @markdoyle.bsky.social for writing it.

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I’m in Dublin and Maynooth all next week, so if you’re nearby and we’re friends on here and you’d like to get a fresh dispatch on Trumptopia from One Who Knows, lmk.

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Just snagged tix to see Julian Barnes at Foyles in London next month. Very excited.

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A request--if you liked my book, would you mind giving it a nice rating in one of the usual spots? It'd help a lot. Thx.

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Rhymin' Simon is coming to the Ryman! (and other places)

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The existence of Lil Nas X implies the existence of Lil Nas I to IX.

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Andre Breton’s apartment at 42 Rue Fontaine, Paris #AndreBreton #BOTD #Surrealism

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Andre Breton’s apartment at 42 Rue Fontaine, Paris #AndreBreton #BOTD #Surrealism

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Rhymin' Simon is coming to the Ryman! (and other places)

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Sitting in a Nashville coffee shop listening to a social media strategist consult with a musician whose target audience they are defining as "soccer moms" and I'm deeply admiring everybody's honesty.

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Team Cale, assemble

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Now playing / now reading. Really enjoying @markdoyle.bsky.social's insightful and imaginative approach to Cale's masterpiece - one of the very best I've read in the 33 1/3 series.

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Enjoying my 12yo's current obsession with My Chemical Romance, the hyper-fixation of the pre- to early-teen years: memorizing the band members' vital stats, recounting the lore like Tolkien writing the Silmarillion, establishing an idea of "her" music that will be with her forever even as it changes

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In a week I'll be in Dublin and getting to spend some time in my very favorite room, after too many years away.

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TOMORROW, on Presidents' Day, "Not My President" protests in every US state. Look online to find yours. I'll be there! (Not enough people know about these protests, so please repost freely. Thx.)

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The more I think about it, the angrier I am that Leonard Cohen is no longer with us.

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I feel like there should be waaaayyyy more ratings and reviews of this by now.

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A new Jon Fosse coming later this year…

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Somewhere this very moment a woman with a master's in film is being told by a dude on a first date that Sullivan's Travels isn't actually funny.

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Favorite Album #86: John Cale - Paris 1919 (1973) I have a simplicity in taste, preferring the Lou/Doug Yule Velvet Underground albums to the Cale ones. I also don’t find much solo Cale accessible but I adore Paris 1919. Looking forward to reading the recent P1919 33 1/3 by @markdoyle.bsky.social

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www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre... Instructive list: 10 great films about the French resistance

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Just remembering the time when my brother and I were listening to a Serge Gainsbourg CD in the car and "Je t'aime... moi non plus" came on and we both got really uncomfortable and never said a word about it ever again.

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Yes the Gulf of America thing is idiotic but the thing to remember is it’s part of a deliberate effort to restructure behavior and mindsets through officially sanctioned language; it’s chaotic at the moment but could cohere or accumulate into something worse. This book is a good guide here.

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Mark Doyle will be discussing his book about John Cale's Paris 1919 album with Theresa Kereakes @ Grimey's New & Preloved Music in Nashville on February 19th. @markdoyle.bsky.social www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/02/mark... #markdoyle #johncale #paris1919 #grimeys

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They’re going to be very sad when they learn other countries have red white and blue in their flags. What’s to stop Paraguay claiming sovereignty now? Cambodia? Liberia? Slovenia?

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If you're in #Nashville, come join me and @theresakereakes.bsky.social as we talk all things Cale and Paris 1919 next Wednesday, Feb 19, at 4pm at Grimey's. www.grimeys.com/preorders/ma...

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Today’s art. This water tower in Tonwell, Hertfordshire by Edmund Percey, 1964. Now converted into a holiday home

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