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Saturday, August 8, 2009

WWI: What Was It Good For?

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With Radiohead's song "The Lede" for charity, over much of Britain, and even abroad, Harry Patch's death reverberates. So...
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Friday, August 7, 2009

The Warlocks' "The Mirror Explodes": Music Review

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Preceded by "Heavy Deavy Skull Lover," this continues a second, howling dark, wind for the band. The peaks of HDSL may not be scal...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Ag cur cuairt im bpríosún

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Chuir muid a tugtha ar braighdeanach arú inné. Ghearr sé air go Tehachapi. Is príosún é leis breis agus sé chéad cimí ina ghleann tirim ceit...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009

David Mamet's "The Wicked Son": Book Review

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Mamet's brief defense of Jewish pride against his fellow Jews preening their self-loathing meanders, yet, as with much of his drama and ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Henry McDonald's "Colours: Ireland from Bombs to Boom": Book Review

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This brisk narrative combines the personal with the political, the cultural with the musical. Its Belfast-born author moves through the colo...
Monday, August 3, 2009

Bernard-Henry Lévy's "Left in Dark Times": Book Review

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Seldom have I finished so poorly written a book. Yet, I agree with most of this "stand against the new barbarism." Lévy's fame...
Saturday, August 1, 2009

Oriana Fallaci's "The Rage and the Pride": Book Review

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Bikinis vs. burkahs, bell-towers over minarets: secular humanism vs. retrograde bigotry. Dividing foolish tolerance of intolerance from righ...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Crocodiles' "Summer of Hate": Music Review

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Great title for a familiar sounding CD. Fans of Jesus & Mary Chain will like this best. Beat in German motorik, a touch of Suicide, a da...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Christopher Brooke's "The Monastic World": Book Review

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A renowned professor joins his concise survey with Wim Swaan's expansive photos. The result's an ideal portal to enter cloisters, vi...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Ag breathnú "Julius Caesar"

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Chonaic muid an dráma seo cáitiúil arú aréir. Ghluas muid chun na "hAmharclainne Luibheolaíoch." Is áit go halainn ina ghleann Top...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Wooden Shjips' "Dos": Music Review

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I liked, and reviewed, the earlier WS releases, their s/t début and "Vol. 1," their earlier singles. "Dos" (or "tre...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Kaoru Nonomura's "Eat Sit Sleep": Book Review

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"My Year in Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple," the subtitle explains. At 30, weary of the world, Nonomura tells of his year at...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Malachi O'Doherty's "I Was a Teenage Catholic": Book Review

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Theology vs. decency? During the Troubles, this Belfast journalist mulls over how Irish Catholicism and Ulster evangelicalism tangled his ge...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Coirnis: an teanga Ceilteach beo aríst

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Tá Coirnis beo slán aríst. Léigh mé an alt fúithi. Tá sé anseo: "Cornish Coming Back from the Brink" le Henry Chu ina 'Amanna...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

BBC Book List: How many have you read?

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Have you read any of these books? Where do you fall in the list? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. C...
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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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