Hagstone is published in Australia and New Zealand today. I'll be doing some events there in the next two weeks - at Melbourne Writers Festival, Auckland Writers Festival, WORD Christchurch, Verb Wellington and Paperback Bookshop - if you're about.

Here's a 🧵of individual links/tickets. Join us!

Not gonna lie, we can tell by the way some of y’all quoting police accounts of protests that you’ve never had to actually cover a protest

I’ve just spent 2 years watching all of ‘Seinfeld’ for the first time - I’ll watch the finale tonight (no spoilers please!) From series 3 onwards it’s a work of towering genius, and 95% is broadcastable today. This ‘PC brigade’ complaint is bogus…

Anto Boyle is one of the most talented Irish actors of his generation, on the cusp of international stardom, and he has very good taste in books

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I interviewed Belfast actor Anthony Boyle who has been in (deep breath): the Plot for America, Manhunt, Masters of Air, Shardlake and soon Say Nothing. He's very good. irishtimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

Some weeks I think my column should be called 'I am an old man now and many things annoy me' irishtimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

Britain acted with ‘systematic’ impunity regarding state killings and torture during Troubles, say international experts

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I interviewed Belfast actor Anthony Boyle who has been in (deep breath): the Plot for America, Manhunt, Masters of Air, Shardlake and soon Say Nothing. He's very good. irishtimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

“After 10 attempts at reading and completing James Joyce’s magnificent ‘Ulysses’ and only making it to page 10 each time, on attempt number 11, I finally did it! Hallelujah! ‘Ulysses’ should be a real inspiration to anyone interested in breaking the rules in any art form.” -Ron📚

There are many wonderful milestones in parenting but I think my favourite might be those few precious months for which your toddler maintains the posture and attitude of a retired farmer from rural ireland

Theatre: As part of Rough Magic’s anniversary celebrations, Hilary Fannin’s adapts the 1905 classic Children of the Sun at the Abbey Theatre. ISL interpreted performance May 10, audio described and captioned performance May 4, and touch tours available. buff.ly/3UjyLmn

We promised an announcement so...... we are DELIGHTED to release our trailer for the podcast and tell you that our the first episode will be dropping on FRIDAY MAY 3RD! You can find us wherever you get your podcasts.

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Our first episode will be discussing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with the wonderful PatrickFreyne. It contains excellent tangents about comedy and class in 1970s Britain and the influence the book had on basically everything.

this is lovely

Some weeks I think my column should be called 'I am an old man now and many things annoy me' irishtimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

This is a great youtube channel for folky, rootsy stuff: youtube.com/@GemsOnVHS/vid… like this Rufous Nightjar performance youtube.com/watch?v=RY2RFC…

I wrote about Britain's Got Talent irishtimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

Timothee Chalamet riding around on a ginormous worm. What genius thought of that and then somehow turned it into a film that's boring.