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Hugo Brady Brown

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Flicks through the papers; buys the odd book; listens to radio. Probably not ignoring your post: a long list of muted terms. "Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last" Posts are deleted: hostages to fortune all. Eastern Ireland. July '23.

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David Fenton @davefenton.bsky.social · 9d

Very detailed explanation of how Amazon exploits retail customers and business customers alike…

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 11d

A pirated Dublin edition of Lieutenant William Bligh's 'A Narrative of the Mutiny, On Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty' (1790)

Issued for a conger of Dublin booksellers. (? Printed by arrangement from the London plates?)

(Minus the charts & plans of the London edition.)

€1 000
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Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Su

Bligh, Lieutenant William. A Narrative of the Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, on of the Friendly Islands, to ...

www.westcoastrarebooks.com

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 22d

Though even the best prepared candidate can fail if a late cuckoo passes by.

'We were ready to go': Bertie Ahern says he prepared for Áras race for two years

The former taoiseach said he was “very disappointed” not to receive the support of the Fianna Fáil leadership and declined to back Jim Gavin.