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Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 3h

The demolition of the GPO was a scandal. A truly magnificent building replaced by the incredibly ugly Castlecourt Shopping Centre.

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 11h

Those were the days!

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 14h

Something like this?

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

Here's another clip to celebrate Cliff's 85th birthday. This one features him walking around Birmingham in his 1973 film Take Me High. Look out for brutalist landmarks like the Central Library (RIP), Alpha Tower and New Street Signal Box
youtu.be/yfvsVcKlLQs?...

Cliff Richard - Winning - Take Me High - 1973 - 4K - Stereo Retro Remix 2005 Remaster

YouTube video by Cliff, The Shadows | And Other Great Music

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm amazed we're not Number 1!

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 1d

Just arrived. 4k digital restoration of this brilliant film directed by Paul Schrader.

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 2d

A friend of mine took this photograph in the Mournes today.

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 2d

Newtownards. Colonel Paddy Mayne. One of the founders of the SAS.

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 2d

The foreword is by Jon Stallworthy.

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't know that Louis MacNeice wrote novels. I came upon this in a charity bookshop in Newtownards today.

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 3d

Great bunch of lads I trained with. Over 50s Donegal XC champions.

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 3d

Fergus Bourke

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 3d

Master of Osservanza: "Saint Anthony Abbot Tempted by a Heap of Gold" (the gold is gone from the painting, but it used to be there).

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Stephen Shore

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 4d

"He's very like himself."

From the archive: Seamus Heaney writes to Rosemary Goad at Faber from Berkeley, California in September 1970

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 8d

Ahoghill 1973

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 11d

Please enjoy Marie Osmond (the smurfette of the Osmonds) discussing and reciting Dadaist sound poetry
youtu.be/USTQgu229Wc?...

ripleys-_dada.mp4

YouTube video by das ubuibi

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 13d

Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679

Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679

Last night, while the home team lost the big game on TVs at a local dive bar, my noisy rock band opened for a chamber pop ensemble. Electric guitars and feedback gave way to classical acoustics, violin, piano, accordion, and even a saw.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 13d

Belfast poetry reading 1981.

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 14d

Mishima Closing. youtube.com/watch?v=lkJj...

Philip Glass - Mishima Closing | Multiphonic Saxophone Quartet (Minimal Music/Film Music)

YouTube video by Multiphonic Quartett

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 14d

W.S.Merwin

W.S.Merwin poem

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 15d

I'll see you and raise you - The Heubeck Years.

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 17d

My son Eoin racing in the Donegal Cross Country Championship in the Rosses. He went on to win it.