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Hugo Brady Brown
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The consumption of radio, newspapers, books and bread.

The writing is on the wall. It's time to give up: the standard here is too high.

Eastern Ireland. July '23. Still here.
One of the occasional horrors of life in a small town where something is happening but there's nothing to report yet is city journalists descending to manufacture copy by enticing respectable people into being indiscreet or tabloid. It's probably at least as demeaning for the journalists.
February 17, 2026 at 1:00 AM
"It's a pity to see what must have been an expensive and arduously acquired education so wasted. Do you do nothing now except tweet?"
February 17, 2026 at 12:56 AM
'More geese than swans now live,
More fools than wise."
The Silver Swan - Gibbons - Tenebrae conducted by Nigel Short
YouTube video by Tenebrae Choir
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Eusebius: a Monaghan name for boys and men.
February 16, 2026 at 11:55 PM
How could there be no reference at all in this to the greatest of all films of this kind, 'The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey'?
February 16, 2026 at 11:22 PM
The Sapir–Whorf crowd, if they were still on the go, could make fine sport with the Irish words for green. And grey. But that's all old hat now. Sean-hata.
February 16, 2026 at 10:56 PM
"Have you heard of David Foster Wallace?"

It was around this point that this evening's early promise started to fade.
February 16, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Nihil obstat
Imprimi potest
February 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church Youghal which have been carbon dated to 1170. Likely built by shipwrights so essentially an upside down boat. www.patrickcomerford.com/2021/08/sain... #speirgorm
February 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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*precursor ceremony to supposedly the most important day of my life* hold on let me plug this thing I want to spin off into a book or podcast or something
February 15, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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undeniable prose. like ringing a bell.
February 6, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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One neat trick to vastly improve this website:
February 6, 2026 at 1:35 AM