@mrtmcg.bsky.social
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Bloomsday was a sporadic, boozy and ill-mannered affair before becoming an annual event in 1994
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
Bloomsday was a sporadic, boozy and ill-mannered affair before becoming an annual event in 1994
In 1954 Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin embarked on a drunken pilgrimage including public urination on Sandymount Strand
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June 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Bloomsday was a sporadic, boozy and ill-mannered affair before becoming an annual event in 1994
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
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Queen's technician-turned-author, Bernard MacLaverty, reflects on his life: ‘I gave my poems to Seamus Heaney… he told me to stick to stories!’ www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/feature...
Queen's technician-turned-author reflects on his life: ‘I gave my poems to Seamus Heaney… he told me to stick to stories!’
Words are not just Bernard MacLaverty’s currency, they’re his livelihood.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Queen's technician-turned-author, Bernard MacLaverty, reflects on his life: ‘I gave my poems to Seamus Heaney… he told me to stick to stories!’ www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/feature...
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Don’t threaten me with a good time
May 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Some unspeakable violence just perpetrated on some wee bird by bloodthirsty magpies… #CruelNature
May 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Some unspeakable violence just perpetrated on some wee bird by bloodthirsty magpies… #CruelNature
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To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
May 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
Third lemsip’s the charm…please god!! #longIrishwinter
February 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Third lemsip’s the charm…please god!! #longIrishwinter
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Remember the hobbit!
December 26, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Remember the hobbit!
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Each year my wonderful pal Rachel arranges Christmas gifts for Ireland's unhoused children.
As of last week, there are 14,996 ppl in emergency accommodation in Ireland, inc. 3,448 children.
It's a tiny thing to bring joy to them. If you can at all, please consider donating.
www.merrylilsanta.ie
As of last week, there are 14,996 ppl in emergency accommodation in Ireland, inc. 3,448 children.
It's a tiny thing to bring joy to them. If you can at all, please consider donating.
www.merrylilsanta.ie
Home | Merry Lil Santa
Merry lil Santa is an annual Santa drive to help children in emergency accommodation
www.merrylilsanta.ie
December 7, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Each year my wonderful pal Rachel arranges Christmas gifts for Ireland's unhoused children.
As of last week, there are 14,996 ppl in emergency accommodation in Ireland, inc. 3,448 children.
It's a tiny thing to bring joy to them. If you can at all, please consider donating.
www.merrylilsanta.ie
As of last week, there are 14,996 ppl in emergency accommodation in Ireland, inc. 3,448 children.
It's a tiny thing to bring joy to them. If you can at all, please consider donating.
www.merrylilsanta.ie
Shakespeare dug deep.
“I have of late—but wherefore
I know not—lost all my mirth… and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to
me a sterile promontory… “
“I have of late—but wherefore
I know not—lost all my mirth… and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to
me a sterile promontory… “
December 3, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Shakespeare dug deep.
“I have of late—but wherefore
I know not—lost all my mirth… and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to
me a sterile promontory… “
“I have of late—but wherefore
I know not—lost all my mirth… and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to
me a sterile promontory… “
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Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
Auden, "September 1, 1939"
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
Auden, "September 1, 1939"
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
Auden, "September 1, 1939"
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
Auden, "September 1, 1939"
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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
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Reposting this to mark the arrival on #Bluesky of the redoubtable @thomasniblock.bsky.social.
Surely it is only a matter of time before every county board moves across. #GAA
Surely it is only a matter of time before every county board moves across. #GAA
I said it before. It shouldn't work. But the BBC GAA Social consistently out does itself. Colin Bell, Sambo McNaughton, Liam Hinphey, Kevin McElvanna, Niall Devlin, Niall Grimley...insightful, raw emotion and occasionally some GAA.
But it was all leading to this
open.spotify.com/episode/1okG...
But it was all leading to this
open.spotify.com/episode/1okG...
November 14, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Reposting this to mark the arrival on #Bluesky of the redoubtable @thomasniblock.bsky.social.
Surely it is only a matter of time before every county board moves across. #GAA
Surely it is only a matter of time before every county board moves across. #GAA
Sure we’ll see the craic
November 18, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Sure we’ll see the craic