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Your da’s second wife.

Had there been divorce.

A double page ad featuring Irish models in the Front Square of Trinity College, Dublin, in New York magazine, January, 1971.

Clodagh gave up making scratchy Aran minis to successfully design interiors…in New York.

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

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A damn handsome Ronnie Delany in careworn  Irish kit on the cover of a rare-enough Sports Illustrated, February 2, 1959.

Three years after winning Olympic gold in Melbourne.

*swoon*

Yours for $5.

Ronnie Delany

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

 

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Pictures by Harrison Howell Walker taken around Ireland in the summer of 1940, ostensibly for The National Geographic but some for his own – and now our – pleasure.

Includes obligatory Irish mother cutting turf after burying her son.

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(Thanks Sibling of Daedalus)

FPS

A heavily armed, nowhere-near-complete but nonetheless nostalgic strafe through twenty years of FPS classics.

Games featured: Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Dark Forces (1995), Quake (1996), Quake 2 (1997), Half-Life (1998), Quake 3 (1999), Project IGI (2000) ,Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001), Battlefield 1942 (2002), Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003), Doom 3 (2004), Battlefield 2 (2005), Crysis (2007), Arma 2 (2009), Metro 2033 4A (2010) and Battlefield 3 (2011)

Ah, the wasted hours. The lumbar trauma. The grotesquely calloused thumbs.

Good times.

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