Headline of the day goes to the irishdailystar

No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – 70% of whom are women and children.

You will not distract us from this immoral war.

The granddaughter of Arthur Kearney, composer of The Centenary March, is a member of our sessions & she brought his original handwritten notes in & we have now added this modern classic to our practice repetiore! 😀
itma, she would like to get his notes into your files. 👍😉

// Sinn Féin Launches Survey of the Arts Sector // ow.ly/Ha2t50RarFZ

Questionnaire covers topics such as local arts spaces, the work of the Arts Council and the Basic Income for the Arts.

It’s #BandcampFriday and the first one since #IWD2024 so I thought I’d share this 🧵 with ye all again to give ye some inspiration!

Explore bandcamp for these and other amazing artists (including me!) safe in knowledge we aren’t getting shafted (looking at you #Spotify 😡)

I wrote on the new Bothy Band documentary here. It's well worth viewing, and still available on the TG4 player.

I watched this when it aired, and highly recommend clicking the link at the end of the review to play it back if you missed it.

Review of An Bothy Band Documentary on TG4 | Journal of Music journalofmusic.com/reviews/return… via The Journal of Music

// Bringing to Light a Forgotten Anglo-Irish Composer // ow.ly/bheC50R8nVe

Harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist Bridget Cunningham has just released an album of work by the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish composer Thomas Roseingrave. James Camien McGuiggan reviews.

Our front page tomorrow The Independent

‘The moment has come to do whatever it takes to force Israel to end its war. It has to stop.’

#TomorrowsPapersToday

If Palestinians will be ethnically cleansed from Gaza, don’t say you did not see this coming. It is happening now in front of your eyes. The settler colonialism you are criticising in your academic papers, in its purest form. Now. In front of you. And you are saying nothing!

We are excited to announce that MU will be offering Sanctuary Scholarships for new entrants in the 2024-2025 academic year 🎓✨

If you're a refugee or an international protection applicant seeking educational opportunities, we encourage you to apply!

maynoothuniversity.ie/edi/excellence…

“This is not a normal war. The war in Ukraine has killed 500 kids in two years and the war in Gaza has killed over 10,000 in less than five months. We have seen wars before but this is something that is a dark stain on our shared humanity.” -Dr. Fozia Alvi theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

What’s being done to Gaza is the greatest moral atrocity of our lifetime. It is impossible to read the facts and watch the videos and come to any other conclusion. To be silent, to equivocate, to deny, is to tacitly endorse an act of generational evil.

It will not be forgotten.

I have been working nonstop for the past 6 months covering what’s happening in Gaza, but what I saw today while visiting Al-Shifa hospital was unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before :

Israeli occupation forces executed 300 Palestinians in and around the hospital, and this…

“I’m not attacking you, I’m just asking a simple question.”

Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks an Israeli spokesman whether the government will apologise to the families of seven people killed in a World Central Kitchen aid convoy, amid reports of repeated strikes on aid agencies.

Over the years I’ve lost two friends, one Palestinian and one Lebanese, and nearly lost a third, a French cameraman, to the willingness of IDF soldiers to open fire even though they knew perfectly well who they were. But they felt sure their superiors would protect them.

The devastating Israeli airstrikes that killed World Central Kitchen personnel yesterday bring the number of aid workers killed in this conflict to 196 – including more than 175 members of our own United Nations staff.

This is unconscionable.

On the Teaching Philosophy fb group, someone offered their students an amnesty if they admitted to using ChatGPT in their assignments, and 23/25 students replied...

A reminder that the months WITHOUT 31 days (2,4,6,9,11) and months WITH 31 days (1,3,5,6,8,10,12) form pentatonic and major scales (respectively).