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Hugo Brady Brown

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Flicks through the papers; buys the odd book; listens to radio. Probably not ignoring your post: a long list of muted terms. "Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last" Posts are deleted: hostages to fortune all. Eastern Ireland. July '23.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h

That's one for the calendar. That delightful lady sent me a lovely note a few years ago. The pinnacle of all my encounters with musicians from the top drawer.

She was discovered while singing in an RAF canteen, I remember. Like Caruso or one of those fellows, mutatis mutandis.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

Now that's impressive detective work! Yes. The food and the staff (and, indeed, the other customers) are lovely here.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 8h

Is this allowed by our common parliament in Brussels?

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

Trade liberals only.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

Good God! And they were the semi-detached northern equivalent of the Tories then, weren't they?

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

I'd have thought it was bad for trade for a shop to have Radio Maria as its more-than-background soundtrack, but this is Westport.

"Oremus."

Schedule - Radio Maria

Listen to us You can listen in via DAB+ Radios (in many modern cars!), by INTERNET radio, or on your SMARTPHONE or TABLET by downloading the RADIO MARIA Ireland App on Google Play Store or Apple App S...

www.radiomaria.ie

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

You're on fire today!

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

Now there's a name one doesn't hear these days. I last saw her singing Handel from a barge in the river next to the Custom House, many years ago.

I had expected to hear great things from the lovely Deirdre Cooling-Nolan.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

That is very good! He had the innocence of a child savant saint. Nearly lost all his own money at one stage, in fact, through that very unworldliness. Someone had to save him..

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

It's amazing the up-and-coming singers who simply vanish from the mass media consciousness. Many younger people today will not have heard of Katherine Jenkins, the Welsh Linnet, yet only a decade or so ago she was set fair to become in time the new Lesley Garrett.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 18h

The common good and private property.

A notice summarising the law on access to the countryside

Silver Strand on the Atlantic Ocean coast. Co Mayo, Ireland
A place name sign

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

An obviously un-FG activity. Who could imagine the late John Kelly or Mr Cosgrave running a bookies? Or Garret FitzGerald?

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

And yet, despite all the advantages, it came to this. There's only so much that even the most civilising schooling can do if the coarseness is so deeply ingrained.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

There's only so much you can do, I find, with those M&S suits, if you're odd in any way.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

The pirates remain a training and testing ground for broadcasting talent that is drawn to RTÉ once a quality threshold has been passed. It's certainly an economical arrangement.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

He seems to lack the grace and the elegance of bearing and language of the typical member of Fine Gael, the United Ireland Party.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 9h

It's interesting to read about a man born in Ireland in the 19th century moving 'to the UK' in that same century.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 10h

'Museum' is such an ample term.

New museum on life of Ernest Shackleton opens in Kildare

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

www.rte.ie

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 17h

Logo

I knew a university senior lecturer who used to pronounce this word 'loggo'. And he was a Greek scholar by avocation.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 18h

The common good and private property.

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