A proud dad. My first born is 13 today and their request was for a turntable. Tearing up here. Hah, they don't actually own any records yet. That comes later when they spend the vouchers!
🎨 Coming soon: the first-ever journal dedicated to Francis Bacon!
📚 Featuring insightful contributions, rare photographs, & fresh perspectives on Bacon's life and work, it promises to be a groundbreaking publication. 🙌
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"I'm sitting in this cell for something I didn't do
And all I can think of is baby I think of you
Don't worry baby coming back for you
There's gonna be a borstal breakout
There's gonna be a borstal breakout
There's gonna be a borstal breakout
There's gonna be a borstal breakout"
We can see the European influences in Roderic O'Connor's portrait of the American writer Alden Brooks from 1916, but there is a softness, almost a poetic quality, that marks it out as distinctively Irish.