#Skibbereen
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nkp1981 · 1 year ago
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Where you can read a book yesterday, today or tomorrow
Skibbereen, Ireland
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stairnaheireann · 9 months ago
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#OTD in 1847 – Horrific Report | Irish Genocide.
Lord Dufferin (a twenty-one year old student at Oxford) and the Hon G.G. Boyle publish a report after visiting Skibbereen, Co Cork. “The scenes we have witnessed during our short stay at Skibbereen, equal anything that has been recorded by history, or could be conceived by the imagination. Famine, typhus fever, dysentery, and a disease hitherto unknown, are sweeping away the whole…
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John Macklin - Journey Beyond the Grave - Ace - 1970
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mcgaggs · 7 months ago
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chasingcrystal · 1 year ago
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Dumpster Crystal is ready! Let’s go through the mountain pass! ⛰️🏍️😼
How are you today? What will you accomplish?
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lisablasstudio · 1 year ago
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Monday's image: June 5, 2023
Richard Tuttle, Celebration #1, Pencil and acrylic colors on foamcore and cardboard, 49.5 x 38 x 1 centimeters, 2003, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
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mridulrgupta · 2 years ago
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A traveler with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation. #skibbereen #westcork #cork #ireland #mridulrgupta #indian #travel #travelphotography #love #photooftheday #instagood #igers #travelgram #explore #travelling #trip #irelandtourism #wanderlust #adventure (at Skibbereen, West Cork) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnYzAWRs55X3fimJ5d_zNUPoCBbbRMtAsEohnc0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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disdoorted-crows · 11 months ago
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i made a list of folk songs the mechs used in their music and now you can have it too
have you ever been listening to a folk playlist and thought, 'hey, i think i've heard this one on a mechs album!'? well, you probably have! the mechs' songs, especially their early stuff like once upon a time in space, often contained tunes from popular folk songs!
disclaimer: i got a lot of this information from either the genius lyrics page for the song or the lyric video from TheVoidSings, who of course has lyric videos for (i believe) all the mechs songs out there. so, shoutout to them for doing the research! i just compiled it. also, this is an incomplete list; it's just all the ones i could find.
the queens court - the deserter
tim goes crazy - battle hymn of the republic
the recruiters song - pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
gassed last night - bombed last night
the toy soldiers song - over the hills and far away
blood and whiskey - o were I on Parnassus hill
pump shanty - pump shanty
cinders song - haul away joe
rose red - rose red
old king cole - old king cole
laid in blood - fifteen men on a dead man's chest
our boy jack - bella ciao
sleeping beauty - let all mortal flesh keep silence (picardy)
broken horses - skibbereen
sirens - gently johnny
riddle of the sphinx - greensleeves
favoured son - the rocky road to dublin
underworld blues - last kind words blues
ties that bind - blue in green
elysian fields - i am a poor wayfaring stranger
one eyed jacks - the house of the rising sun/when jonny comes marching home
iphis - house carpenter
pellinore and the beast - barbara allen
gunfight at the dolorous guard - my funny valentine
empty trail - when the levee breaks
the hanged man rusts - lannigan's ball
hellfire - dem bones (💀💀💀)
skin and bone - the raggle taggle gypsies
holder of the grail - the rising of the moon
peacemaker - sinnerman
once and future king - the snow it melts the soonest
thor - drowsy maggie
ragnarok I runaway - crazy train
drop dead - matty groves
lost in the cosmos - bonny grovewoodside
chop of their heads - mouse round (mending song)
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salvador-daley · 1 year ago
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Robert talking to the students at Skibbereen Community School this week ❤️❤️
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vtatters · 1 year ago
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I want to visit Cork someday, what do you recommend must see? Love your blog by the way, thanks 😁👋🌻☘️
OK, there are the obvious; fota wildlife park, blarney Castle and Park, ballycotton for the scenery, skibbereen for the history, cobh, you defo should visit spike Island, clonakilty for the craic and pub scene. Kinda depends on your time frame. If you are over here, let me know and I'll give you a tour 😁
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dustedmagazine · 8 months ago
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Robert Poss — Drones, Songs, and Fairy Dust (Trace Elements)
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Robert Poss is best known for his work with Band of Susans, a late 1980s-early 1990s guitar-centric no wave band that came up in the same general scene and time frame as Sonic Youth and Swans. Band of Susans went through a number of configurations, but it never had fewer than three guitarists at a time. Consider Poss the primer inter pares (or first among equals) in the band’s squalling wall of guitars.
Now a few decades and a handful of solo albums on, Poss is still fascinated by the possibilities of amplification and feedback, though perhaps in a more lyrical, less confrontational way than in his youth.
Poss has titled this album Drones, Songs, and Fairy Dust, and indeed, it includes all of the above. Though some tracks favor one element or the other, the lines are not always so sharply delineated. There are drones in the more structured songs, and often, the lilt of melody in even the abstract instrumentals. (I’ll leave discerning “fairy dust” to others.)
Listen, for instance, to the way “Skibbereen Drive” blasts out distorted guitar chords, then surrounds them in flickering wah tones, all the while maintaining a steady, anthemic march. Or how “Out of the Fairy Dust” floats a lucid melody over seething, shifting beds of timber, a folk song living in an ambient wash. “Skew Forest” is maybe the purest expression of feedback sculpture, but even this track follows a wandering narrative line. Poss is thinking hard about texture and atmosphere but not to the exclusion of a good hook.
In the same way, the song-like tracks coruscate with detuned blare, the wall of guitar distortion almost, but not quite, burying the vocals in “Secrets, Chapter and Verse.” “It’s Always Further Than It Seems” has the rough romanticism of post-punk turning into college rock—first run Burma and very early R.E.M. come to mind—but there’s a haze and roar even in this well-shaped song.
As an album, Songs, Drones and Fairy Dust runs a bit long, piling up the brief experiments and longer compositions as Poss tries out new things. You might not want to listen all the way through very often (or you might) but pick any point on this extensive collection and you’ll find some very compelling guitar sounds, bending subtly or overtly towards song.
Jennifer Kelly
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victusinveritas · 2 years ago
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Cutlery from Michael Collins' last meal.
This cutlery used by Collins at his last meal in the Eldon Hotel in Skibbereen on August 22, 1922, hours before the ambush at Béal na mBláth. The knife, fork and spoon were stitched to a green silk shamrock to symbolise Ireland, flanked by a green flag with a harp and a tricolour.
The hotel manager held onto the cutlery and after Michael Collins' death, it was presented to Kitty Kiernan, who was well known as Collins' fiancée. Following Kitty's untimely death in 1945, the cutlery was passed on to her sister Maud. Later, it was passed down through Maud's husband's family, Gearóid O'Sullivan, who raised the Irish flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising.
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stairnaheireann · 9 months ago
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#OTD in 1848 – ‘Starvation Fever of 1847’ article by Dr. Daniel Donovan of Skibbereen, Co Cork was published in the Dublin Medical Press.
Skibbereen was synonymous with the Genocide of 1845-52 with reports of pestilence, starvation and death from that area on an almost biblical scale. However, there are also stories of extraordinary courage and heroic deeds about those who ministered to the afflicted and who did so much to alleviate their great distress. Canon John O’Rourke, who visited Skibbereen when carrying out research for his…
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murder-popsicle · 2 years ago
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List five songs you listen to and tag ten followers. Repost, don't reblog.
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Presenting five random songs from my Bucky playlist!
1. "Ain't No Grave" - Johnny Cash 2. "Muscle, Bone & Blood" - Mia Doi Todd 3. "This Girl Is Taking Bets" - Thea Gilmore 4. "Black and White" - Jackson Browne 5. "Skibbereen" - Sinéad O'Conner & The Chieftains
stolen from: @bokketo tagging: @oftomorrow, @svpe, @aoete, @invncibleiron, @cephaloscience, @parainvestigate, @darkkssiren, @taliaromanova, @wsstandsfor, @symbioteburnout
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willtasker · 1 year ago
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Oh father dear, and I often hear you speak of Erin's isle Her lofty scenes, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild They say it is a lovely land wherein a prince might dwell Then, why did you abandon it? Oh, the reason to me tell
My son, I loved my native land with energy and pride 'Til a blight came over all my crops and my sheep and cattle died The rents and taxes were to pay and I could not them redeem And that's the cruel reason I left old Skibbereen'
Tis well do I remember the bleak November day When the bailiff and the landlord came to drive us all away They set the roof on fire with their cursed English spleen And that's another reason I left old Skibbereen
Oh, your mother too, God rest her soul, lay on the snowy ground She fainted in her anguishing, seeing the desolation 'round She never rose but passed away from life to immortal dreams And that's another reason I left old Skibbereen
Oh, you were only two years old and feeble was your frame
I could not leave you with my friends for you bore your father's name I wrapped you in my coat at the dead of the night unseen And I heaved a sigh and I said goodbye to dear old Skibbereen
Oh well, father dear, and the day will come when in vengeance we will call All Irish men, both stout and tall, will rally unto the call I'll be the man to lead the band beneath the flag of green And loud and high, we'll raise the cry, "Revenge for Skibbereen!"
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i'm sorry.. what?
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia Municipal Court is resuming evictions as early as Monday, saying landlord tenant officers have now received training on use of force and de-escalation tactics.
landlord.. tenant.. officers?
"Though the sheriff has the power to serve evictions, the task is usually handled by a private force hired by a court-appointed attorney known as the landlord-tenant officer. These private security contractors — who are often armed — have long been a part of the local eviction system."
so landlords have their own private military? this is class warfare
This follows the court suspending all evictions in July after multiple tenants were shot during evictions over the past several months. In one incident in March, a plainclothes landlord tenant officer shot a woman in the head. In another incident in July, police said a woman was shot in the leg. A spokesperson for the court's Landlord and Tenant Office said evictions will now be conducted in teams of two officers who have all received Pennsylvania Constable training.
this is LITERALLY class warfare
The LTO is funded by service fees from landlords and not taxpayer money. Fees to landlords will increase from $145 to $350 to cover the additional staff, training and insurance costs.
and who the fuck do you think is going to end up ultimately paying those fees in the end? where do you think the landlords are going to get the money? you're just giving them an excuse to raise the rent. oh my god this country is a complete and total failed state.
[cbs]
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jezsimmsblog · 2 months ago
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This poor Manx Shearwater was found wrecked at the Arts Centre in Skibbereen. I released it back into the sea at nearby Tragumna beach. Sept. 3rd.2024.
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