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Friday, February 6, 2009

Dánlann Nua Anseo, cuid a h-aon

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Chuir mé suas gailearaí ealáine ar taobh deas síos anseo an lá eile. Bhí gá agamsa a cur íomhánnaí go raibh go líonta leis chaill agam. Fuai...
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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Dafydd Jenkins' "A Nation on Trial: Penyberth 1936": Book Review

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Does a moral law overrule that of the State? What happens if you reject violent protest, but you still fight back practically? Can military ...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Michel Faber's "The Fire Gospel": Book Review

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Featuring a splendidly observed chapter, "Judges," which shows an eager if rather callow, previously unknown, scholar on his book ...
Monday, February 2, 2009

John Berger's "G.": Book Review

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This dense, philosophical Booker Prize-winning novel of ideas took six years to write. Appearing in 1972, it follows the amorous adventures ...
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Ag eisteacht ceol roc ar an bóthar

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Nílim ag eisteacht go ceol roc go leor le deanaí sa mbhaile. Cén fáth? Éistím de gnáth leis mo h-iPod cheana féin. Taistealaím ar traenachaí...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Black Angels' "Directions to See a Ghost": Music Review.

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Any CD that credits not only "rogue sitar" but "drone machine" better deliver fresh assaults, not rehashed revamps from ...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

The Black Angels' "Passover": Music Review

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Along with Darker My Love's "2" and The Black Angels' follow-up, "Directions to See A Ghost," (see tomorrow'...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Ag críochnú tainséiriní

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Tá dhá fáth a chur ag críochnú tainséirini le deanaí liomsa féin. Cad is cuis leis? Ar dtús, tá crann ard amuigh ár fuinneoig anseo. An bhfu...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Gwyn A. Williams' "When Was Wales?": Book Review

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Arguing that Welsh identity's about to vanish, and that the one-fifth who speak Welsh out of the two-and-a-half million in the Principal...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Essentially Welsh Pop Music?

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Here's my latest contribution to the AmeriCymru discussion forum about Welsh Rock Music, or its lack. Dave Martin posted lamenting how...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Craobh Curtin, Conradh na Gaeilge.

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Bím gnóthach liomsa inniu. Mar sin, ní scríobhfaidh go leor anois. Ach, léigh mé dhá nóta le Dónal ó Milwaukee. D'inis sé ormsa faoi suí...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Lathophobic Aphasia: EFL Teacher's blog

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This greater Birmingham-based EFL teacher reminds me of two other instructors. Mix erudite "Bo" over at "The Expvlsion of the...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

"Spiked": Political Journalism

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My friend Carrie from Ireland, with whom I have found much in common politically and intellectually over the years, has guided me often to b...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Ag íthe mír coirce.

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Is maith liom mír coirce go leor. Measaim go raibh imeasc brícfeastaí is tofa air agamsa. D'íth mé an bia sin céann ar maidin seo. Rinne...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Introversion: Withdrawal Symptoms.

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My wife blogged today about me (among other mixed blessings). She claimed that this article would be tattooed on my chest: "Introvert...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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