Diarmuid Ó Cuirc
solanga.bsky.social
Diarmuid Ó Cuirc
@solanga.bsky.social
No hay banda.
'Creideamh am bata buidhe' - derisive term used in the Hebrides to describe forced conversion to established church. The laird's factors used bamboo canes to herd people to the kirk & the landlord appointed minister...
December 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Ruling ideology of official Ireland is that analogue is dead & digital only is madatory for everything. Hardly inclusive.

Worth asking them if they followed the National Disability Authority's guidance on Universal Design when designing the 'passenger journey'
universaldesign.ie/communicatio...
Customer Communications Toolkit for Services to the Public – A Universal Design Approach - Centre for Excellence in Universal Design
Customer Communications Toolkit for Services to the Public – A Universal Design Approach
universaldesign.ie
December 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I worked on London during the 80s. Home for Christmas, I tried to exit a packed last 32b bus to Baldoyle via the backdoor. The whole bus started singing "Maybe its because I'm a Londoner" to me. True story.
to.me
December 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
No one agency owns enforcement - at least 6 diff agencies responsible for diff aspects of water quality - The real problem. Thus the Minister is giving Wex Co Co 700k to ' aid the council’s coordination' of an inter agency response to Lady's Island Lake. Sigh..
www.southeastradio.ie/minister-bro...
Minister Browne Announces €700,000 Funding for Restoration of Lady’s Island Lake
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, James Browne TD, has announced a €700,000 funding package to support Wexford County Council’s efforts
www.southeastradio.ie
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
Wylder's Hand - Sheridan LeFanu
Knocknagow - Charles Kickham
A Drama in Muslin - George Moore
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"He gave the little wealth he had
To build a house for fools and mad;
And show'd by one satiric touch,
No nation wanted it so much."
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
No hay banda...
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Mulligan's tyre
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Not forgetting Ireland's Samuel Beckett - the only Noble Prize winner listed in Wisden...
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There's a song about that...
youtu.be/3k0lzYGDI_E?...
Cathal Coughlan, 'Bertie's Brochures' @ Cleere's Theatre, Kilkenny 12.8.19
YouTube video by StringBeanJen
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November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
A meniskos was a bronze disk mounted above the head of a statue in Ancient Greece to prevent bird feces from accumulating on the statue's head. This probably the origin of the halo in Christian art.
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Breaks the Law of Comparative Advantage. Ireland is a small country, lacks the critical mass of specialists, know-how and experience to build, operate & maintain nuclear. Money better spent on connecting to the EU Supergrid - leave nuclear to larger nations with indepth tech know-how.
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Funding for a land grab. 1815 to 1825 was the second brutal phase of na Fuadaichean (Highland Clearances) in Scotland. Characterised by mass evictions, 'assisted' emmigration and driving tenants to coastal areas to take up fishing and crofting.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
"Ceann goimh air madainn Earraich 's mairg a chailleadh a chaomh charaid"

A spring morning with a stinging head, who would lose a beloved friend?

- Toraidhean Dwelly
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The Brontë (Prunty) family had Irish connections too. Terry Eagleton's conjugation of Wuthering Heights and the Great Famine an influential text here in Ireland when first published in '92.

www.jstor.org/stable/29735...
Emily Brontë and the Great Hunger on JSTOR
Terry Eagleton, Emily Brontë and the Great Hunger, The Irish Review (Cork), No. 12 (Spring - Summer, 1992), pp. 108-119
www.jstor.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM