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The olden days.
If the church didn’t get you, the Department of Education would:
“Augustine Martin seems to have less to do with choosing these stories then he did the poems [in ‘Soundings‘]. He provided the notes and exercises, but the stories were chosen by a syllabus committee of the Department of Education. They had an agenda – committees always do – which was less disinterested than Martin’s agenda for Soundings, or at least less based on the innate and tested excellence of the work.
Two-thirds of the stories are Irish (the reverse proportion to Soundings). The Irish are famous for short stories, but still, that doesn’t leave much space for the rest of the world. And there’s no Joyce, Chekhov, or Maupassant , so Exploring is less a canon than Soundings.
It says a lot about the preoccupations of the Department of Education: five stories by Liam O’Flaherty about the Aran Islands? Brilliant stories but the number of them suggests Gaelic League preoccupations, the old nostalgie de la boue.”
Bridget Hourican, reviewing Exploring English 1, Short Stories We Did For Our Inter Cert (Gill & Macmillan) in the Dubliner, with tomorrow’s Evening Herald.
The Ray Darcy show on Today FM sez:
We got sent in this photo from Paddy in Dundalk. Just after Ireland’s win over Australia last Saturday, his dog Sofie did a pee on the kitchen floor – the shape of Australia! How mad is that?
From Star Wars Remix – a newish blog (with some potential) whereby things Star Warsian are remixed.
Jabba the Mince cannot be unseen. But you know that now.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77r-ghIOQso
We’re not normally huge fans of racing games but this insane fly-through launch trailer for Ubisoft’s Trackmania 2 Canyon is just so damned eyeball-pleasing.
Despite the labyrinthine build, it’s also easy to play, using little more than the arrow, backspace, and enter keys on a PC keyboard.
Apparently, you can do it with one hand. But that’s your own personal business.
Trackmania 2 Canyon on PC is addictive, beautiful, and oddly local (Ars Technica)
Four bedroom semi: 102 Willow Avenue, Athlone Co. Westmeath
Four-bedroom semi: 15 Grove Park, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
Five-bedroom period house: ‘Rooskey’, Killinaker House, Killinaker, Co. Leitrim
Reserves “must not exceed” 50k.
Part of the Allsop house fire sale in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin on September 23.
Gay Mitchell: “Understands our past, believes in our future”.
Mary Davis: “Pride at home, respect abroad”
Martin McGuinness: “Towards a new Republic”.
Michael D Higgins:“The President who will do us proud”.
Seán Gallagher: “Let’s put our strengths to work”.
Bodger: “I am high. Come dance with me.”
