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Posted in Guest Posters, Music, Personal on Aug 10th, 2011
I played a show in Dublin once where the front row was jumping up and down so much and so fast that they all got dizzy at the same time, started knocking each other over. Usually, I stare into space when I play, but this sea-like movement was so visually intriguing that I turned my [...]
Posted in Domestic, Economics, Family, Parenting, Personal, Rants, Travel, Work on Aug 9th, 2011
Type emigration into google and hit images… guess whose pictures come up en masse? Oh hell yeah, the Irish, a fantastic group of prematourists. We’re very good at it, and I for one am delighted to say Yes I can! This year’s Christmas card will feature my good self stood in front of a threadbare [...]
Posted in Family, Guest Posters, Parenting, Personal on Aug 5th, 2011
I was a post-Magdalene’s baby, I guess. Born out of wedlock, to parents who had little in common other than a shared flush of romantic stupidity, in a time when it was neither socially acceptable to procreate prematurely nor to hand one’s errant daughter over to hatchet-faced nuns. A decade older, and I might have [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, Personal on Aug 3rd, 2011
I once heard depression described as a big black dog. While this is a good description, for me it’s more like Dorothy’s struggle to get through her journey to Oz. We all start out (if we’re lucky) at Aunty Em’s; the comfortable, familiar, safe surroundings of home with people who do their best to give [...]
Nobody dies any more. They pass. Or pass on. Or pass away. When they’ve passed, they’re gone. Not dead. I don’t know when people stopped dying and being dead in Ireland. But it seems to me they have. You see these references about passing in death notices, and hear them in conversation. I always thought [...]
I cried today. Not in sorrow but in anger. Those hot, prickly tears that you can feel behind your eyes before they start to drop. The reason was guilt. Or rather anger at someone poking at the residual well of maternal guilt which is all to easy to access. The conversation was well-intentioned – the [...]
Another dark chapter in our nation’s history began to come to light today. One which has been quietly, desperately brewing out of the public eye. An email from the CEO of Superquinn – which has gone into administration – spoke out about the actions of the receivers. Our nation is still reeling from our previous [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Beauty, Celebrity, Personal on Jul 21st, 2011
A friend of mine was recently looking through some old photos and commented, “I noticed you never smile with your teeth showing!” To be honest, I barely know how to smile with my teeth showing because it’s something as a teenager I decided I would never do. While I have a perfectly straight set of [...]
Occasionally, my father wrote a note on a torn-off corner of newspaper and placed it onto the open page of the book I was reading. See you quietly, frequently at the end of the field, drinking this? (3, 2, 3)** Once I’d solved it, I’d earned what he was offering me. Five hundred and it [...]
Posted in Personal, Random Wonderfulness, Society, Technology on Jul 18th, 2011
Every family has one. On top of the piano, on the mantelpiece framed by the Irish dancing trophies and the GAA medals, in pride of place on the ‘good dresser’ – the family portrait. That snapshot of how we are right now; all questionable outfits and wonky fringes – a soupcon of family life caught [...]
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