An Eclectic collection of items and views about James Joyce and his works, and a miscellany of other items, that take my fancy!
Ireland, Limerick.
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#Budget2024
U.K. budget statement is sounding as realistic as the IDF statements saying they are doing all they can to prevent killing innocent women and children
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Anyone with a Joyce tattoo has free admission to the Joyce Centre as well as our curiosity. We welcome artistic expressions of all kinds. 💪🎩🎨 3/3
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This visitor from the United States showed us his Leopold Bloom tattoo. It is based on Joyce's own sketch of Poldy. (Perhaps he should have left drawing to his daughter, Lucia.)
Do you have any Joyce-related ink? If so, post it here (keep it clean, people)! 2/3
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The New Yorker published Silence, Exile, Punning: James Joyce’s chance encounters by Louis Menand OTD in 2012.
newyorker.com/magazine/2012/…
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5pm. Today's Gael Force Luimní Show on LCCR is all about famous Limerick people - from Mick Mackey to Jim Kemmy; from Kate O'Brien to Dolores O'Riordan; from Richard Harris to Keith Earls ... and many more! Ceol. Caint. Craic. Bígí linn! #Gaeilge #Limerick #LuimneachAbú
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🇵🇸 #Palestine || The Palestinian child Qusay Waked (14) who got killed by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin. 12.2.23
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Judge people by the company they keep.
Jeremy Clarkson? Piers Morgan?
Both disgustingly vocal about their hatred towards members of your own family, yet you saw fit to lunch with them.
Your ‘institution’ is worthless if it has no family principles.
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When told by a British soldier to go back to his own country - he replied “Why don’t you go back to yours?”
⚫ April 1988 Joseph Patrick Kennedy has a run in with the Brits in the Divis area in Belfast accompanied by Fr Matt Wallace.
His son Joe will be the new US Special Envoy to the north.
irishtimes.com/news/politics……
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‘A Private Spy: The Letters of John Le Carré’ will be published tomorrow. It includes this charming email to John Banville, dated 16 July 2019, about a visit to Ireland. @bspender
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Please join us on Thursday, November 10th at 5pm for "Ulysses at 100: A Shared Celebration of James Joyce, Georgia and Ireland," co-hosted by the Georgia Embassy in Ireland.eventbrite.ie/e/ulysses-at-1… @Eventbrite
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This is @carlalockhart who wrote to Birmingham FC to get their Irish girls sacked. This soldier & a colleague shot a learning disabled catholic in the back killing him.They said they thought he had a gun.Carla made a point of hugging him & posing for pics outside court.
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Remember Majella O’Hare, 12, killed on 14/8/76 by a Regular Army Paratrooper, on her way to Confession in the chapel her family attended in Whitecross, S Armagh.
Initially, the Army Press Office said that the PIRA had been responsible for Majella`s death. Later it said that she..
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“Dentistry is an American invention, a new science, somewhat like chiropody.”
An apparent quotation from Joyce (one that escaped Ellmann’s dragnet), which John Quinn passed on to Lady Gregory in a newsy letter. Joyce said it to Quinn when they met in Paris in July 1921.
