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Arnold Thomas Fanning

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Writer, Walker, Photographer, Record Collector. Essays & Stories in The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd & elsewhere. Author of Mind on Fire (Penguin Ireland, 2018). https://about.me/arnoldthomasfanning

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‘He used the trumpet as a songbird’: 100 years of Miles Davis, by jazz greats Sonny Rollins, Yazz Ahmed and more Ahead of the centenary of Davis’s birth, musicians including Terence Blanchard and John Scofield analyse his brilliance: from his soft phrasing and spiritual feel to his raspy cussing and leather outf...

Remembering the great Miles Davis.

‘He used the trumpet as a songbird’: 100 years of Miles Davis, by jazz greats Sonny Rollins, Yazz Ahmed and more www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

30.01.2026 12:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fully agree 👍

28.01.2026 11:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cork County Council Presents Open Call Winter Exhibition Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery presents the now annual Open Call Winter Exhibition which will run throughout November and December 2025. 74 works from 68 Cork-based artists will be presented in Cor...

I'm very excited to have a recent photograph selected for this exhibition, opening in Cork's LHQ Gallery Friday and running through to December 19th...

03.11.2025 12:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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05.09.2025 09:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Album cover, Miles Davis, At Newport 1955 & 1958

Album cover, Miles Davis, At Newport 1955 & 1958

Sunday... #Jazz #NowSpinning #VinylLovers #MusicSky #JazzSky

03.08.2025 11:43 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This thread 👇

02.08.2025 12:20 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Sounds brilliant, looking forward to reading and bringing into the classroom 📚 !

01.08.2025 15:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of sleeve of album cover, Erik Satie Piano Works.

Photo of sleeve of album cover, Erik Satie Piano Works.

... #NowSpinning... Erik Satie Piano Works, Anne Queffélec, piano... sublime music... #ClassicalMusic #VinylLovers

29.07.2025 13:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More for the TBR list!!! 👇👇👇

29.07.2025 13:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳

29.07.2025 13:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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23.07.2025 16:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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22.07.2025 18:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think the two are linked... there is less tolerance for the fugue state of being idle with a commensurate need for that void of 'boredom' to be filled with ... anything...

22.07.2025 18:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Colin Eaton, ‘Rayon de Soleil’, papercut collage & mixed media, 42x32cm framed. Part of ‘Out of Lines’, a Bloomsday / Summer group show at Olivier Cornet Gallery.

www.oliviercornetgallery.com/out-of-lines...

We are open until 8pm tonight

@colineaton.bsky.social #oliviercornetgallery

17.07.2025 10:08 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations 🎊 Looking forward to reading 📚 👏 😀

14.07.2025 18:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ah, fantastic, congratulations 🎊 👏 Best wishes for its future ❤️

04.07.2025 19:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Awful!!!!

26.06.2025 13:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Meta wins AI copyright case in blow to authors US court finds using online books to train artificial intelligence models without writers’ consent is ‘fair use’

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26.06.2025 13:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Beautiful poems ✨️ Congrats all round 👏

22.05.2025 12:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wonderful news 👏 😀 Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 😀

21.05.2025 11:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Album box set, Beethoven, The String Quartets, Hungarian String Quartet.

Album box set, Beethoven, The String Quartets, Hungarian String Quartet.

This week, committing to listening through this: Beethoven, The String Quartets, Hungarian String Quartet. #VinylLovers #VinylCommunity #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky

27.04.2025 14:05 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Indeed 🙏

22.04.2025 18:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brilliant 👏

22.04.2025 17:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Green with envy here!

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17.04.2025 17:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sounds great, looking forward to reading 📚 😀 👍

17.04.2025 16:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This sounds lovely 👇👇👇

16.04.2025 13:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

I'm sharing this petition again protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool, as it is near the magic 1000 signatories mark. Will you sign too? #dontzuckourbooks my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

07.04.2025 08:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Read a Poem "Hirsch's contribution is significant, in the obvious pleasure he has experienced through words. . . . Who could resist the wiles of this poetry-broker-a writer rapidly becoming the baby boomers' pre...

Edward Hirsch, "How to Read a Poem."

04.04.2025 18:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0