You can pick up my history of the Phoenix Park, written with lamplighters Frank and James Flanagan, for just €9.99 from Chapters at the moment. It's a beautifully illustrated work of labour history that I'm very proud of. chaptersbookstore.com/products/the-l…

This record is so strangely beautiful

Happy Bloomsday 2024! To mark this mighty day of Ulysses, I’ve written a short piece in celebration of James Joyce’s warm and witty wonder. One of the greatest of all twentieth-century novels, I just love it. (Weblink to essay in biog.)

An early start for once but was at the Martello Tower for eight! Swapped out the strawboater for something a bit more modern in honour of the class of 1954. The day is young.

Who killed James Joyce? I, said the commentator, I killed James Joyce For my graduation. What weapon was used To slay mighty Ulysses? The weapon that was used Was a Harvard thesis. - Patrick Kavanagh. Nice to quote him, Ryan, Cronin and others in this piece today for Sunday

I don’t know why nobody told you how to unfold your love I don’t know how someone controlled you They bought and sold you.

Julia, Julia, oceanchild, calls me So I sing a song of love, Julia Julia, seashell eyes, windy smile, calls me So I sing a song of love, Julia

Back where the dogs bark, where still life bleeds the concrete white, try not to go too far inside your mind

Fontaines D.C. just casually dropped an all-timer headline set on The Park. One of THE best bands in the world right now The Rock Revival Fontaines D.C. ☘️🇮🇪

Our new album, "No Flowers Grow in Cement Gardens," is out today!! It's been 4 years in the making, with a lot of sweat, joys and doubts along the way but we sure put our hearts, souls and nervous systems into it. (1/4)

Spacing out to The KLF Chill Out

It’s Grim Up North

Oasis … but who the heck is that with Noel?

Seriously, this album by ⁦Grian Chatten⁩ is bloody brilliant

Absolutely fantastic piece of work - a contender for album of the year. Give it a play.

Eire.

Francis Fitzgerald and Francis Maguire

Interview: Brian Brannigan and his a lazarus soul bandmates discuss their powerful new album, No Flowers Grow In Cement Gardens Bohemia Records hotpress.com/music/a-lazaru…

The story unfolds Wrong Side Of Town & Ceasefire are the first two tunes to drop in the ‘Aquarii In Dub’ series

The Olympic Games are drawer-ing to a close.