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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 · 10h

It is notable that so many of those among us who fling mud of the 'reaches for the calipers' kind are the very ones who post hilariously and repeatedly about 'the big Irish head on him'.

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

"All posts will be regretted. Circumvent the embarrassment by deleting even before posting."

Wise words indeed.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11h

Silver Strand, County Mayo.

The tide is far out. The Atlantic. Bags of litter, probably collected by beach walkers, awaiting collection.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11h

W.S. : I write history plays, not history.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11h

It's amazing who is forgiven and who isn't, for the same offence or insult or imperfection of behaviour.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11h

Some people worry now about getting books through customs into Ireland; my more immediate concern is slipping them in the front door unnoticed.

"Where are you going to put them? I want a one in, one out arrangement here. And you're always on your phone, so I don't know what it's all about."

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11h

Yes. I spent a great deal of time down between Killadoon and the Silver Strand twenty and thirty years ago, but I'm there much less often these days. I was surprised today by how far, say, Thallabawn or the old Silver Strand House is from W. The memory shrinks the distance.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11h

I have read great things about it here and elsewhere. It seems, from flicking through it, that the narrator buys notebooks: a very good sign indeed.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11h

I heard great things about two of the books before, but somehow hadn't even heard there was a new one by Sean Lysaght: I like his poetry and I loved the previous Nephin book. And I was with someone who is listed in the bibliography of one of the books, so I had to buy that too.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11h

In search of a seaside paradise. AMV €75 000

On the sea coast of the county Mayo

Aillemore, Killadoon, Westport, Co. Mayo, F28X0F2 is for sale on Daft.ie

Aillemore, Killadoon, Westport, Co. Mayo, F28X0F2 a 3 Bed Detached is now for sale by Lorcan Smyth on Daft.ie with an asking price of AMV: €75,000

www.daft.ie

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11h

"You were out on the island today?" said the landlady.

"Yes," I said, "I had been looking out at it here for decades ..."

"And you thought you'd better get a move on," she said.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

New to me today was the Tale of Elisha and the Widow's Oil, which is to be found in the obscure Fourth Chapter of the Second Book of Kings, beginning at the first verse.

It could remind one of the Tale of the Wine at the Wedding at Cana.

Bible Gateway passage: 2 Kings 4 - Authorized (King James) Version

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is c...

www.biblegateway.com

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

I have passed it dozens of times, but made only one attempt to go in before now, on a day it was closed. I was expecting the usual 'Irish suburban bookshop' fare today, but it was anything but. I had often heard it was very good, but I had presumed that was well-meaning gush.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

It's only fair. Invert the process.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

"Of course it makes sense to pursue the barristering sensitivity. This election could turn on the votes of very ignorant or very simple people. Campaigning isn't a seminar in the Sutherland bleeding Law School."

Wise words indeed.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

It's appalling that bookies' odds are being reported as news by the once-respectable pol corrs. And providing free advertising for one particular firm too.

(We have never been inside the door of a bookie's. It is simply not the Fine Gael (United Ireland Party) way.)

#aras25

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

"If you're thinking of taking silk, a judge once said to me, you should make sure you have a hobby. So I didn't."

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

"I turn first to the index when I look at a book in a shop."

"Hoping you're not there, I suppose. I check the bibliography for the opposite reason."

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

Death is a good one in context.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 13h

That reminds me of this lovely song about the defence of Little Belgium.

Good Bye-ee From Oh What A Lovely War!

YouTube video by WW1Photos

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 13h

For some of us, the pinnacle of the late Patricia Routledge's work was in 'A Woman of No Importance' by Alan Bennett, in which she was Miss Schofield.

(This opinion is widely held by people who hold or held particularly important jobs or roles.)

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 14h

Single-syllable given names do violence to performances of the 'Happy Birthday' chant in restaurants.

(How would Purcell have set the name 'Paul' in that context? Tunefully, for one thing, I suppose.)

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 14h

"You'd love it. The head waiter is a character."

We avoid.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 15h

Two Sisters at the Gaiety.

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

Belfast City Hall confused with the Blue Mosque in Turkey, (1986)

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