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The Alt text is wonderful
I never really paid attention to how beautiful that song is till I heard this version: youtu.be/xi4BKoEsvjg?...
Fantastic gig at BelloBar last night. After being exposed to the worst of what Dublin has to offer - i.e. Brown Thomas (I only go there to use the loo) - I really needed a cure for despair. @theocelots.bsky.social restored my faith. Tongue-in-cheek Elvis was just the icing on the cake.
Come Trailing Blood
Tarry Flynn
The Light-Makers
John the Revelator
A Ghost in the Throat
This album was frequently on repeat during my childhood. My daughter is named after Leantha in Montana Song...some lyrics never leave you.
Just give a little rant about how you were listening to CMAT *before* she got popular - that's bound to convince them you're cool!
God, the 80s were such a vibe. What I wouldn't give to go back, just for a day or two...
(I've seen far less sturdy structures in Dublin up for rent at 1500+ per month btw, maybe upcycled 'dwellings' should be your retirement plan!)
Angela Wright has a gorgeous essay, "Three Hundred Miles", in Vol. 11, No. 2 (Love) of the Irish Pages. (No link, I'm afraid, I'm old-school with most of my reading!)
Micah Thorp’s Aegolius Creek doesn’t just describe land — it interrogates it.
Wildfire, capitalism, grief & the vole that detonates it all.
Read the full review:
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/08/24/f...
#PromoteIndieLir
Come Trailing Blood by Paul Smith
‘Adventures, then home for tea. The strikes into Scotland or Ireland or Wales are just that – strikes, then retreats. Cambridge is still the centre of the world: we started there and will end there, albeit up a tree.’
Kathleen Jamie on Robert Macfarlane, from 2008:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Today!
I was fortunate enough to do my work experience with him, Gerard! He allowed me the privilege of reading drafts for Ghost Voltage, and was kind enough to read my portfolio too. I have nothing but good to say about him, he's top tier in every respect!
"The modelling predicts an ongoing “extinction of experience” with future generations continuing to lose an awareness of nature because it is not present in increasingly built-up neighbourhoods......"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Ho ho for the robbers, the cops and the robbers, ho ho!" 🥲
The Countrywoman by Paul Smith
"The National Development Plan announced by the government this week has allocated nothing to nature, instead taking 3.15 billion euro from the Climate +Nature Fund for infrastructure."
Ireland disgracing itself on nature *yet again*. This is NOT what people want, but we keep getting the same. Why?
Soon, this serene woodland may be gone — sacrificed for a car park of 300 spaces. Even the sparrowhawks seem to mourn, their cries echoing through the morning mist. #thicktrunktuesday #birds #nature
www.change.org/p/save-the-h...
A weird and wonderful deviation!
Hats off to your dad! Excellent parenting 👏🏻
I watched A Night at the Opera with my 10-year-old not so long ago. Almost disowned her when she refused to acknowledge it as a cultural classic and instead labelled it "a bummer"
First pub my ma ever bought me a pint in 🥲 (though to my shame, I think it was a Coors Light...)
It's hard not to be cynical - feels very like safety/inclusive access etc have been weaponised to ensure developments are insultingly nanny-ish and only ever of the contractor-friendly variety
That's really sad. A track through fields would be a thousand times lovelier than a mini-road, and a far more meaningful acquisition if public access to 'natural' environments was actually valued...
