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The Beasht tweetz:

We camped in a little village last night that bears more than a slight resemblance to Ireland #COYBIG

Thanks Adam Gelston

Meanwhile:

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Lorna writes:

Our new addition, Maude the kitten’s grey splodge looks a bit like Ireland? Maybe…if you squinted and lost a couple counties like Dublin?

The Broadsheet Book of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland, edited by Aidan Coughlan (New Island )

 

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Spoken word artist Oisin McKenna wants to write a play.

He explains:

Using a blend of spoken word, physical theatre and live art, Gays Against the Free State! is a new show about revolution and reform. From Markievicz to marriage equality it is about how we got here and where to go next, about queer activism today and republican activism in the past.

We want to see how change gets made, who gets to make it and who benefits in the end. But it’s not a re-telling of events. It is an exploration of the reasons behind events – why they happened the way they did and how they affect us today.

Influenced by a mixture of contemporary queer performance, Prime Time and the Reeling In The Years’ 1980s box sets, Gays Against the Free State! collects conflicting cultural references, gently butchers them, before putting them back on stage.

It will premiere in Dublin in September.

Those who wish to support Oisin can visit his Fundit page here

Previously: Talk Is Cheap

In All The Wrong Places

Thanks Conor

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Ilenkus – playing Knockanstockan fest

What you may need to know…

01. Galway hardcore/post-metal outfit Ilenkus have blazed a trail around Ireland’s metal scene over the past few years.

02. Second album The Crossing, released in September 2014, came in for adoration from national and international genre press, with no less than Terrorizer mag describing the five-piece’s live show as “truly captivating”.

03. Streaming above is the video for Over the Fire, Under the Smoke, which eagle-eyed observers will remember briefly went viral. Filmed all in one shot, it sees vocalist Chris Brennan shred his vocal chords on the streets of the band’s hometown.

04. The band emerges from hibernation with an appearance at Knockanstockan fest, July 22nd-24th. Here’s hoping it’s an airing of new material.

Verdict: An innovative and focused force in Irish metal, if not in the overall Irish independent music sphere, and a must-see live proposition.

Ilenkus

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US Vice president Joe Biden with Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Washington DC last March

Bidenmania’s coming and so
It’s time that we get up and go
To form a big crowd
And cheer very loud
For that wonderful Number Two, Joe.

John Moynes

Rollingnews

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Rev Patrick G Burke states that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a fiction. It is not.

I became an ordained Pastafarian minister during 2015. Beforehand, I went through an arduous process in 2014 involving the ecclesiastical authorities in Armagh to have my excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church confirmed in writing.

My faith in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church and this incurs latae sententiae excommunication, according to Canon 1364.

In the correspondence that I finally received from the bishop, he also states that he is “acknowledging apostasy in accordance with Canon 751, the total repudiation of the Christian faith”.

One of the reasons why I repudiated Christianity was the long history of Pastafarian persecution that has been perpetrated by Christians of every hue. I hope correspondents will reflect upon this history before blaspheming against my religion.

Pasta-based religions should be afforded the same respect as carpenter-based religions.

John Hamill,
Pastafarian Minister,
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster,
Castleblayney,
Co Monaghan.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Irish Times letters page)

Previously: Strained Relations

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