Jack of many trades, master of some. Editor, @leavenmag, '1916: The Church & the Rising'. Author, 'Cannae: The Experience of Battle'. Multiple CMA award winner.
Drogheda, Ireland
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I’m still hopeful this shattering ship will be with us a while yet, but I’ve branched out elsewhere just in case. I’m not yet sold on Mastodon, but I like the other Twitter that’s not Twitter, while @RadiopaperHQ is pleasant and thoughtful whenever I dip my toes into the water.
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On this, we could all do a lot worse than read ‘Bone and Marrow’, potentially one of the most important books on Ireland in years, a history of Ireland through a parade of significant (but too often forgotten) Irish poets from over the centuries: siopaleabhar.com/en/tairgi/b…
The reality is that when it comes to familiarity and engagement with the varying strands of Ireland’s intellectual DNA, we’re vastly more likely to be clued in and paying honour to our Anglo-Irish strands than our Gaelic ones, despite the extraordinary richness of the latter. 3/3
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The other day I heard a blowhard warbling about Ireland’s failure to honour its Anglo-Irish heritage, despite half the population being familiar to one degree or another with Swift, Burke, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Usher, Berkeley, Tone, Emmet, Edgeworth, Wilde, Stoker, and more. /1
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If only we were so familiar with the likes of Michael O’Clery, Geoffrey Keating, Luke Wadding, Florence Mulconry, Bonaventure Hussey, Daniel O’Daly, Pádraigín Haicéad, Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, Aogán Ó Rathaille, Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin, Brian Merriman, James Clarence Mangan… /2
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Oh, @CatholicHerald … imagine claiming it was the Easter Rising that inflamed tensions in Ireland, not the Tory-powered Ulster Crisis that created, armed, and indulged a massive private army committed to war if Ireland got devolution through peaceful constitutional means…
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8 Sept: commemoration of Our Lady of Dublin.
This is the (lifesize) statue known as Our Lady of Dublin. A good tradition has it coming from the Dissolution wreck of St Mary’s Abbey: now in the Carmelite Church, Whitefriars St.
The church celebrates its 200th anniversary 2027.
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This is a big loss, especially coming after Frank McDonald’s death. The two of them did an immeasurable amount to show us how to look honestly at our built and literary heritage. Not that everyone has paid attention, of course.
Sad to hear about the passing of art critic Brian Fallon. This ambitious book is always worth dipping into, especially about Irish culture in the 1940s and 50s @IrishTimes @IMMAIreland @NGIreland @RTEArena
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Tosh. There is no thing called “Africa” with any corporate personality to be held to account for historical slavery; Britain’s record is that of the country that dominated the slave trade for a century and a half before deciding to stop it while doing nothing to help her victims.
Tombs is absolutely right. Africa itself has the most shocking record as regards slavery, whereas Britain has the proudest as the key liberator of the world from this abominable practice.
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Picked this up today. It’s impressive to see how clear-eyed Ireland was back in 1970 in its considerations of what joining the EEC would have meant. It’s striking how people nowadays act as though various developments since then were not on the cards from day one.
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For friends in the younger of these islands, seemingly ‘An Cailín Ciúin’ (‘The Quiet Girl’), an astonishing adaptation in Irish of Claire Keegan’s ‘Foster’ is streaming on Channel 4. It may be the finest film made here in Ireland, and you should do all you can to catch it.
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