Pádraig Ó Méalóid
@slovobooks.bsky.social
Reader, writer, copy-editor, Dubliner, Flanneur, cat-lover, posh punk, ciotóg.
Interests: Flann O’Brien, Miracleman, Alan Moore, and the rest of the 1980s British Invasion. Penguin Books. Also old crime fiction, the older the better.
Interests: Flann O’Brien, Miracleman, Alan Moore, and the rest of the 1980s British Invasion. Penguin Books. Also old crime fiction, the older the better.
I have 369 followers here, and I hardly ever post anything. And I imagine that I'd recognise only a tiny fraction of them, at that. The ways of social media are strange...
March 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I have 369 followers here, and I hardly ever post anything. And I imagine that I'd recognise only a tiny fraction of them, at that. The ways of social media are strange...
I also wrote this!
✨New from The Parish Review✨
Pádraig Ó Méalóid investigates the circumstances under which Graham Greene wrote a blurb for the first edition of "At Swim-Two-Birds" - published by Longmans, Green & Co in 1939 - and what Shirley Temple has to do with it...
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
Pádraig Ó Méalóid investigates the circumstances under which Graham Greene wrote a blurb for the first edition of "At Swim-Two-Birds" - published by Longmans, Green & Co in 1939 - and what Shirley Temple has to do with it...
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
November 27, 2024 at 12:58 AM
I also wrote this!
I wrote this one!
📢NEW from the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies📢
'At Swim-Two-Books: In Search of the Second State of At Swim-Two-Birds'
by Pádraig Ó Méalóid
On the historical & commercial circumstances surrounding the 2nd State of the 1st edition of At Swim-Two-Birds
🔗 parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'At Swim-Two-Books: In Search of the Second State of At Swim-Two-Birds'
by Pádraig Ó Méalóid
On the historical & commercial circumstances surrounding the 2nd State of the 1st edition of At Swim-Two-Birds
🔗 parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
November 27, 2024 at 12:49 AM
I wrote this one!
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Very cool to get this card in the post from Pádraig Ó Méalóid, featuring a portrait of Flann O'Brien by Littleman, published by Pruett in 1982!
August 29, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Very cool to get this card in the post from Pádraig Ó Méalóid, featuring a portrait of Flann O'Brien by Littleman, published by Pruett in 1982!
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English: Irish seems like such a conservative, pious language.
Gaeilge, naming places: An Dá Chích (Two Boobs)
English: No. Wait-
Gaeilge: Baile Phíte Méabha (Townland Of Medb's Vulva)
English: Stop that.
Gaeilge: ...
English: ...
Gaeilge: Magairlí an Deamhain (Devil's Testicles) ☺️
Gaeilge, naming places: An Dá Chích (Two Boobs)
English: No. Wait-
Gaeilge: Baile Phíte Méabha (Townland Of Medb's Vulva)
English: Stop that.
Gaeilge: ...
English: ...
Gaeilge: Magairlí an Deamhain (Devil's Testicles) ☺️
November 26, 2024 at 8:14 PM
English: Irish seems like such a conservative, pious language.
Gaeilge, naming places: An Dá Chích (Two Boobs)
English: No. Wait-
Gaeilge: Baile Phíte Méabha (Townland Of Medb's Vulva)
English: Stop that.
Gaeilge: ...
English: ...
Gaeilge: Magairlí an Deamhain (Devil's Testicles) ☺️
Gaeilge, naming places: An Dá Chích (Two Boobs)
English: No. Wait-
Gaeilge: Baile Phíte Méabha (Townland Of Medb's Vulva)
English: Stop that.
Gaeilge: ...
English: ...
Gaeilge: Magairlí an Deamhain (Devil's Testicles) ☺️
I am rewatching House. Hugh Laurie is absolutely brilliant. In fairness, so are the rest of the cast.
November 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM
I am rewatching House. Hugh Laurie is absolutely brilliant. In fairness, so are the rest of the cast.
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indeed.
this book is a great document (regardless of whether one's read FH), including script excerpts, thumbnails, reference photos and most importantly, terrific commentary on it all from Campbell. a lot of it specifically about how to work from those scripts
November 22, 2024 at 9:55 PM
indeed.
Seeing as there might be a few people who haven’t bought my magnum opus yet, here’s a link! There are a few new chapters that need to be written, covering the last year or two, but I’ve no idea when I’ll be getting around to those.
www.lulu.com/shop/p%C3%A1...
www.lulu.com/shop/p%C3%A1...
Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman (and Miracleman)
The comic character Marvelman (and Miracleman) has a fascinating – and probably unique – history in the field of comics. His extended origin goes all the way back to the very beginnings of the America...
https://www.lulu.com/shop/pádraig-ó-méalóid/poisoned-chalice-the-extremely-long-and-incredibly-complex-story-of-marvelman-and-miracleman/paperback/product-1vjddjn6.html?page=1&pageSize=4
November 21, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Seeing as there might be a few people who haven’t bought my magnum opus yet, here’s a link! There are a few new chapters that need to be written, covering the last year or two, but I’ve no idea when I’ll be getting around to those.
www.lulu.com/shop/p%C3%A1...
www.lulu.com/shop/p%C3%A1...
I am having similar thoughts about Neil Gaiman’s work, after the revelations in July, and since. But what I’d really like is to see a resolution to the accusations, one way or another. NG not responding to them publicly in the past 4+ months doesn’t help, though.
If you are, in 2024, consuming Harry Potter stuff of any kind. The books. The movies. The video games. The fucking theme park. You are willingly putting on a sign saying "I care about my wizard book nostalgia more than I care about actual people's lives and well-being". Full stop. No excuses.
November 21, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I am having similar thoughts about Neil Gaiman’s work, after the revelations in July, and since. But what I’d really like is to see a resolution to the accusations, one way or another. NG not responding to them publicly in the past 4+ months doesn’t help, though.
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"Daddy, do you know you're a complete and utter dirtwad?"
November 21, 2024 at 1:58 PM
"Daddy, do you know you're a complete and utter dirtwad?"
5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by
Alan Moore
Flann O’Brien*
Richard Osman
Martha Wells
Arthur Conan-Doyle
*Flann is tricky because his output is so small
(I don’t doubt that as soon as I hit ‘post’ I’ll thing of *hundreds* of writers I should have listed…)
Alan Moore
Flann O’Brien*
Richard Osman
Martha Wells
Arthur Conan-Doyle
*Flann is tricky because his output is so small
(I don’t doubt that as soon as I hit ‘post’ I’ll thing of *hundreds* of writers I should have listed…)
5 authors I've read 5+ books by
JRR Tolkien
Ursula Le Guin
Raymond Chandler
Terry Pratchett
Mary Stewart
JRR Tolkien
Ursula Le Guin
Raymond Chandler
Terry Pratchett
Mary Stewart
5 authors I've read 5+ books by
George R. R. Martin
Alejandro Zambra
Leigh Bardugo
Anne Rice
Philip K. Dick
George R. R. Martin
Alejandro Zambra
Leigh Bardugo
Anne Rice
Philip K. Dick
November 18, 2024 at 3:17 PM
5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by
Alan Moore
Flann O’Brien*
Richard Osman
Martha Wells
Arthur Conan-Doyle
*Flann is tricky because his output is so small
(I don’t doubt that as soon as I hit ‘post’ I’ll thing of *hundreds* of writers I should have listed…)
Alan Moore
Flann O’Brien*
Richard Osman
Martha Wells
Arthur Conan-Doyle
*Flann is tricky because his output is so small
(I don’t doubt that as soon as I hit ‘post’ I’ll thing of *hundreds* of writers I should have listed…)
For a minute there, I thought this was Peig Sayers...
November 17, 2024 at 9:14 PM
For a minute there, I thought this was Peig Sayers...
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posts on bluesky are blavatskys
November 17, 2024 at 8:57 PM
posts on bluesky are blavatskys
Hello again! Can't promise I'll follow you back if you follow me, or even that I'll use this much. But I'll try to keep an eye on it, and see how it goes.
November 17, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Hello again! Can't promise I'll follow you back if you follow me, or even that I'll use this much. But I'll try to keep an eye on it, and see how it goes.
I bet they wish they were fungible now! (No, I have no idea what I'm taking about...)
Couldn't have happened to a nicer set of artificially inflated useless digital trash:
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
September 22, 2023 at 3:14 PM
I bet they wish they were fungible now! (No, I have no idea what I'm taking about...)
September 15, 2023 at 6:48 PM
Me, Flann O'Brien, and James Bacon at the same spot in Monkstown at various times in the past. Photographic jiggery-pokery by Michael Carroll.
September 15, 2023 at 6:24 PM
Me, Flann O'Brien, and James Bacon at the same spot in Monkstown at various times in the past. Photographic jiggery-pokery by Michael Carroll.
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Good morning ☀️
September 15, 2023 at 10:54 AM
Good morning ☀️
As it has come up in dispatches here, let me urge you all to go buy my book of Alan Moore interviews, Mud and Starlight: www.lulu.com/shop/p%C3%A1...
Mud and Starlight: Interviews with Alan Moore 2008-2016
Pádraig Ó Méalóid has interviewed Alan Moore numerous times since 2008, perhaps more often than any other interviewer. Those interviews, many of which are no longer available online, are presented...
www.lulu.com
September 13, 2023 at 7:25 PM
As it has come up in dispatches here, let me urge you all to go buy my book of Alan Moore interviews, Mud and Starlight: www.lulu.com/shop/p%C3%A1...
It's nearly ten years since I did this interview with Alan Moore, and it still regularly gets cited. I would like to point out, though, that I really don't thing it was an 'elite English school' he was attending, although that's hardly the point here.
Alan Moore was sexually assaulted at an elite English school when he was 11 years old. He hardly ever talks about it, but he did so in a 2013 interview. No wonder he fucking hated the Harry Potter books from the jump
https://slovobooks.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/last-alan-moore-interview/
https://slovobooks.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/last-alan-moore-interview/
September 13, 2023 at 7:15 PM
It's nearly ten years since I did this interview with Alan Moore, and it still regularly gets cited. I would like to point out, though, that I really don't thing it was an 'elite English school' he was attending, although that's hardly the point here.
This is Captain Jack. He is the reason I only get to eat about half the cheese I bring into the house.
September 4, 2023 at 12:58 AM
This is Captain Jack. He is the reason I only get to eat about half the cheese I bring into the house.
I covered it, although not succinctly, here: www.comicsbeat.com/poisoned-cha...
Did he ever pay up?
September 3, 2023 at 11:08 PM
I covered it, although not succinctly, here: www.comicsbeat.com/poisoned-cha...
To know him is to love him.
That's Todd.
September 3, 2023 at 10:56 PM
To know him is to love him.
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. Or is that tomorrow? Anyway, that’s my obligatory first post done!
September 2, 2023 at 12:33 AM
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. Or is that tomorrow? Anyway, that’s my obligatory first post done!