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Homesickness (or the Return of Project Objectify)
I miss cricket. I miss watching it at home, hearing other people’s radios talking about it, going out and seeing it as the default on restaurant TVs. On Friday morning on my way to college the bus...
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Exciting things that I have learnt in Dublin
There are many seagulls in this place. They spend inordinate amounts of time hanging around college, much as the pigeons used to do at school and at my former college (except without the loud pigeon...
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And the fifth sign shall be sweetened popcorn
People tend not to give me religious tracts. I’m not entirely sure why – perhaps they don’t like what they hear of my conversation as I walk down a street; perhaps I don’t look like the sort of person...
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Samuel Beckett estate, you have made me sad. I came to Beckett in the most unliterary of ways. I was fifteen, there was a boy, he was older than me and probably very, very pretentious. And I wanted to...
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By now it feels like about half of the people in this city have congratulated me on how well I speak English, and I have gotten very good at smiling through gritted teeth. So really, I can do nothing...
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Bread And
Poster seen in various places around Dublin (click to embiggen) But wait? What is that bit of text at the bottom? “Acrobats, Dogs, Kangaroos, Emus, Horses African Zulus & much much more…..” Ah....
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2009
I began this year with a picture of an inflatable giraffe. Things I did this year: - Wrote a thesis. - Obtained a new degree. - Obtained paid full time employment. - Visited three countries in one day....
View ArticleJulian Gough, Jude: Level 1
My most recent Left of Cool piece gushes rather embarrassingly about Julian Gough’s Jude: Level 1. A couple of things: I was in Jaisalmer for a few days last year and rode a camel for the first time in...
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