Hugo Brady Brown
@aodhbc.bsky.social
The consumption of radio, newspapers, books and bread.
The writing is on the wall. It's time to give up: the standard is too high.
Eastern Ireland. July '23.
The writing is on the wall. It's time to give up: the standard is too high.
Eastern Ireland. July '23.
The temple might perhaps be the Über-folly.
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
The temple might perhaps be the Über-folly.
"Are you sure Thomas Hardy didn't write the text?"
A Bird in a Gilded Cage - Wikipedia
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February 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM
"Are you sure Thomas Hardy didn't write the text?"
I recently came across someone here who is clearly very intelligent indeed (rather than merely being very 'well read', though they are probably that too).
It's a novelty and it's curiously exhilarating to observe them (in awed silence, of course: better to keep your trap shut and be thought etc).
It's a novelty and it's curiously exhilarating to observe them (in awed silence, of course: better to keep your trap shut and be thought etc).
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 PM
I recently came across someone here who is clearly very intelligent indeed (rather than merely being very 'well read', though they are probably that too).
It's a novelty and it's curiously exhilarating to observe them (in awed silence, of course: better to keep your trap shut and be thought etc).
It's a novelty and it's curiously exhilarating to observe them (in awed silence, of course: better to keep your trap shut and be thought etc).
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undeniable prose. like ringing a bell.
February 6, 2026 at 10:11 AM
undeniable prose. like ringing a bell.
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One neat trick to vastly improve this website:
February 6, 2026 at 1:35 AM
One neat trick to vastly improve this website:
A broken column grave memorial on the Hill of Skryne in the county Meath, with the Hill of Tara in the distance across the slight valley.
Ancient, free & accepted?
Ancient, free & accepted?
February 2, 2026 at 7:16 PM
A broken column grave memorial on the Hill of Skryne in the county Meath, with the Hill of Tara in the distance across the slight valley.
Ancient, free & accepted?
Ancient, free & accepted?
Sinn Féin are playing politics with Dublin Central, I understand this lunchtime from a source familiar with thinking in No 51. Their incumbent deputy doesn't want a rival elected. (Neither, I understand, do the Labour and Social Democrat incumbents.)
There's a Fine Gael seat there for the taking.
There's a Fine Gael seat there for the taking.
February 1, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Sinn Féin are playing politics with Dublin Central, I understand this lunchtime from a source familiar with thinking in No 51. Their incumbent deputy doesn't want a rival elected. (Neither, I understand, do the Labour and Social Democrat incumbents.)
There's a Fine Gael seat there for the taking.
There's a Fine Gael seat there for the taking.
The only disappointment in all the great legacy of the MacGill Summer School up in Glenties for 45 years is that no publisher - not even the Royal Irish Academy itself - has issued a scholarly edition of the complete works of Patrick MacGill (1889-1963).
A disappointment and a surprise.
A disappointment and a surprise.
Patrick MacGill - Wikipedia
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February 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
The only disappointment in all the great legacy of the MacGill Summer School up in Glenties for 45 years is that no publisher - not even the Royal Irish Academy itself - has issued a scholarly edition of the complete works of Patrick MacGill (1889-1963).
A disappointment and a surprise.
A disappointment and a surprise.
Who Elizabeth Bowen's grandmother in Kildorrery would receive and who she would not.
February 1, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Who Elizabeth Bowen's grandmother in Kildorrery would receive and who she would not.